Catalyzing Diversity: Practical Advice for Navigating Minority STEM Communities...
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Claims concrete outreach tactics: using hashtags and recurring Twitter chats like #BLACKandSTEM and Latinos in Tech (LATISM), pitching panels and booths at niche conferences (Tapia drew about 100 attendees to the panel), pairing campus workshops (OpenHatch) with paid internships (Outreachy), piloting a scholarship and building a recruiting database of 1,400 candidates that surfaces roughly 35 likely open‑source contributors, and running followup workshops and mentoring to convert contacts into sustained contributors.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 0:35Hand Survey
- 3:26Finding Minorities: Social Media
- 4:30Online Tech Minority Communities
- 7:39Online Diversity Influencers
- 10:30Tech Diversity Organizations Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Tapia_con
- 13:09Open Source Bridge 2014
- 14:49Tapia Conference OSS Panel
- 16:47SACNAS Open Science Panel
- 18:24Open Source Bridge 2015 Panel
- 19:34Call to Action: OSS Survey
- 21:33"Equitable Tech" Recruiting • Diverse Scholar Doctoral CV Database - Financial sustainability of travel funds
- 23:482040s Latinos Tip Minority-Majority
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