Jamie discusses the social issues of an industry where dealing with code is easy, but dealing with people can be very hard.

1. Making our spaces
more inclusive
@jamiehannaford
DjangoCon EU, Cardiff

2. 1. Workplace
2. Open-source
3. Conferences

3. What is diversity and
why is it important?
"The more diverse your team, the greater the
potential for innovation"
- Njideka Harry, Youth for Technology

4. What can we do?

5. The Job Posting
Gender neutral pronouns
Avoid buzzword bingo and trite clichés
Make your diversity commitment explicit
Offer benefits people actually want

6. The technical interview
"Whiteboard coding interviews create an inherently
confrontational situation in which the candidate has
to prove that they are intelligent."
"Technical Interviews are Bullshit", Model View Culture (November 2014)

7. Making interviews better
Be conversational, not adversarial. Nobody
should be set up for failure
"Let's build things together" rather than
"Prove to me how smart you are"
No whiteboards!

8. Fear
"We all get stuck. We’re all figuring it out as we
go along. Welcome to the club."
Noah Veltman

9. Imposter
Alicia Liu, "Overcoming Imposter Syndrome"

10. Reducing fear
Institutionalise mentorship
Asking can be hard, so don't stigmatise.
Be empathetic, understanding, kind
No feigning surprise. No "well actually" answers
Cut back on unhelpful words like
"obviously", "easy", "just"
Praise in public, critique in private

11. Why don't more people
contribute to open-source?

12. "Kill your heroes"

13. How do we enable people
and give them confidence?

14. Let's stop denigrating
people's tooling choices

15. Documentation is the
heart of any project

16. How do we tackle
exclusion at events?

17. Talk proposals

18. Are conferences a
public service?

19. Wrap up

20. Thank you!
Slides:
Resources:
Keep in touch! @jamiehannaford

21. Great resources
Model View Culture
Coding academies and training programs
CODE2040, Hackbright Academy, the Flatiron School