Growing the Scala Community
summary
ScalaBridge runs one-day workshops and a 12-week program in more than 15 cities and needs mentors and front-end developers to scale; one London graduate lands an internship at Twitter. Industry data cited: women in computing fall from ~36% (1991) to ~25% (2015) and roughly half later leave tech. Organizing actions that show impact include a published code of conduct with reporting, mentoring through CFPs, and event promotion off typical tech channels to recruit underrepresented learners.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and icebreaker
- 1:20Implicit bias in tech
- 4:16Why diversity matters
- 7:50Current state of diversity in tech
- 9:37How individuals can help
- 10:39Conference organizer responsibilities
- 11:22Avoiding tokenism
- 13:07About ScalaBridge
- 16:20ScalaBridge impact and success
- 19:05Call to action and reflection
- 23:30Personal reflections and closing
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