Breaking into OSS as a Mother in Tech
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A mother in tech breaks into OSS through AsyncAPI’s Google Season of Docs internship, selected from 200+ applicants, moves from self‑taught Python and data science to building NLP sentiment‑analysis models and producing technical docs, and learns to draw engineering diagrams with Mermaid, creates documentation and engineering diagrams. The path is funded by mentorship and practical tasks; cited numbers feel stark: about 26.7% women in engineering roles and over 50% report hiring discrimination.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Breaking into OSS as mother
- 1:05From hospitality to tech
- 3:38Upskilling with online courses
- 7:10Internship challenges
- 12:41Finding hope with Google Season of Docs
- 15:55Breaking into OSS with GSoD
- 19:11Supporting mothers in OSS
- 23:46Conclusion
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