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Building a more diverse Clojure community
Introducing the speaker
Ali King
Software Engineer at
Volunteer Coding Educator
@ali_king
What is ClojureBridge?
Coding workshops
For women
Run by volunteers
Introduction to Clojure
Beyond women
Ethnic minorities
LGBTQIA
Disability
Class/economic background
ClojureBridge Edinburgh26th & 27th September 2014
Image: argylehouseedinburgh.com
Partners and sponsors
Talk to people
Book a date
Tell the world
Help! How do I do this?
Why?
Went to Clojure/FP events
Almost only woman there
People are missing out!
RailsBridge
1 day workshops
Increase % women at confs
Bridge Foundry
ClojureBridge in 2014
April - Durham, NC
May - San Francisco, Brisbane,
Minneapolis
August - Melbourne
September - San Francisco, Edinburgh
December - Sydney
Image: Google Maps
Comparisons
RailsBridge
Rails Girls
Django Girls
Why outreach
Gender diversity in tech
Functional Programming
Not well known?
Unhelpful?
Gershom Bazerman - Letter to a Young Haskell Enthusiast
“If your primary goal is to spread knowledge, then you must be relentlessly self-critical of anything you do or say that gets in the way of that. And you don’t get to judge that — others do.”
Hacker School rules
No feigned surprise
No ‘well actually’s
No back-seat driving
No subtle -isms
Odd one out
Image: flickr / Cliff Muller, CC2.0
Comfort level
Image: Max Frear, CC3.0
Growing a community
Codes of conduct
Consult outside group
Teaching aims
Thought processes
Engagement
‘Selling’ ClojureBridge
Modern
Minimal keywords & syntax
FP before OOP
Portable
REPL
How you can help
Organise
Teach
Sponsor
Contribute
Bootstrapping diversity
Chicken and egg!
Women in lead roles
Cross-train
Visiting experts
Recruit former students
How to organise
github.com/clojurebridge/organizing
Mailing lists
Mentors
Teacher training
Social comfort
Technical capability
Monitoring engagement
San Francisco, May 2014
Image: ClojureBridge SF
ClojureBridge Solingen, June 2015
Image: ClojureBridge Solingen
Follow up
Mailing lists
Meetups
Local Clojure groups
Feedback surveys
What we’ve learned
Organiser guide
Workshop feedback
Curriculum design
Community impact
Diversity
Energy
Community discovery
Virtuous circle
More Clojure programmers
More Clojure in production
More Clojure jobs
More learners
Resources
clojurebridge.org
github.com/ClojureBridge
groups.google.com/group/
clojurebridge-workshops
Building a more diverse Clojure community