Keynote: How to Build a Magical Living Room
summary
Builds a real community: launches a CodeNewbie Twitter chat with three rules and disgustingly nice moderation, spins that into a podcast series (about 190 episodes) and a Base CS show that turns 52 blog posts into 20‑minute lessons with transcripts added after a blind listener asks, and runs Codeland, a conference that supplies per‑talk jargon cheat sheets and a scholarship covering flights, hotels and childcare, adds closed captions and photo‑privacy stickers — fixes that measurably increase newcomer access and retention.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:17The Magical Living Room How to build authentic and engaged communities
- 12:09BUILD #CodeNewbie
- 13:06magical twitter chat
- 17:39LEARN timezones
- 18:11ITERATE morning chat
- 19:25UNDERSTAND Lots of technical content, few technical stories
- 21:51magical podcast • Validation that they belong
- 28:01LEARN accessibility
- 28:26ITERATE transcripts
- 29:38BUILD CODELAND
- 32:34magical conference Follow and understand the talks • Newbies need the why
- 38:55CODELAND 2018
- 39:38LEARN • Environmentally friendly options
- 43:12I don't do this for everyone.
- 44:56Small, consistent acts build trust
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