How to Build a Magical Living Room - Saron Yitbarek
How to build authentic and engaged communities.
Speaker
- Saron Yitbarek CEO of Codenewbie
Video
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Notes
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Addis Ababa capital of Ethiopia.
- First to serve, last to eat
- Led by observing
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Many, little problems
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Make people feel valued
- Understand
- Build
- Learn
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Iterate
- Twitter chat #CodeNewbie
- Three rules
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Aggressively nice
- Inclusion does not mean you want to include everyone. You don’t want to include the mean people, the assholes, …and when you are digustingly nice to people, the bad apples don’t want to sit with you.
magical podcast
- Validation that they belong
- Validation that they can do it
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Get out of the way
- base cs podcast
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Vaidehi Joshi on Medium on dev.to
- accessibility
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iterate and now have transcripts as well
- Most conferences aren’t great for newbies.
- Codeland
magical conference
- Follow and understand the talks
- Newbies need the why
- Financially accessible (scolarship for the attendees)
- Closed captioning
- Childcare
- Dietary retrictions (and labeling)
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Photography and privacy See Stephanie Hurlburt recommending a sticker for people who don’t want to be photographed. via Hunter Stevens
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“When you are a newbie you don’t realize that error messages are your firends and you should not run from them.”
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“If they hadn’t spoken up …”
- Environmentally friendly options
- Prayer room
- Low-carb lunch
- Bigger seats
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A list of personal blindspot…
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The bulk of the work is invisible
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Small, consistent acts over time build trust
- All I want is to make you feel safe, and wanted and welcome.
