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From YouTube: Expanding Diversity Throughout Node.js
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Join IBM and others in the community for a discussion on the development and promotion of diversity in the ever growing Node community!
A
A
A
A
It
meant
that
I
was
able
to
find
a
sense
of
confidence
that
I
didn't
have
when
I
was
younger
by
doing
that
and
then
feeling
even
more
confidence
when
I
show
up
at
a
place.
I
think
I
know
nothing
and
I
have
something
to
offer
to
somebody
else.
So
that
was
that's.
That's
been
my
my
short
stint.
Thus
far
and
me
being
able
to
combine
past
talents
with
my
programming
is
why
I
have
the
job
that
I
have
today,
which
is
really
incredible
and
really
rewarding.
So
that's
that's
really
exciting.
A
B
Thanks
tracy
all
right,
hello,
I'm
ashley
briscoe.
I
am
a
program
manager
in
the
open
tech
part
of
ibm
and
I'm
really
excited
about
all
you
guys
showing
up
today,
because
I
really
feel
like
there's
a
great
conversation
to
be
had,
and
this
morning,
ashley
really
kind
of
you
know
segwayed
nicely
to
having
an
open-ended
conversation
because
there's
a
lot
of
work
to
be
done,
but
I
also
feel
like
there's
been
progress
and
we
have
a
wonderful
mixture
of
women
and
other
underrepresented
groups
in
here,
but
there
is
a
lot
to
be
done.
B
So
there's
a
couple
things.
I
just
really
wanted
to
spend
a
minute,
because
we
only
have
a
minute
to
talk
about
just
a
few
things.
I
really
feel
like
there's
three
ways
that
we
can
all
get
involved
and
I
would
love
suggestions.
I
would
love
you
guys
to
open
up
and
these
women
are
going
to
share
their
experiences
as
well.
So
I
think
we
need
to
encourage.
I
think
we
need
to
dispel-
and
I
think
we
need
to
mentor
so
a
couple
of
those
are
pretty
intuitive.
We
need
to
encourage
young
women
young
generations
earlier.
B
So
why
is
coding
exciting?
How
can
they
get
involved
and
really
start
to
create
with
their
own
hands?
As
tracy
said,
it's
powerful,
you
know
getting
there
and
developing
something
that
you
can
then
look
at
and
see
it
in
work,
that's
powerful,
so
we
need
to
encourage
girls
in
middle
school.
You
know
how
do
we
do
that?
There's
different
opportunities,
there's
coding
camps,
there's
all
sorts
of
technical
things
showing
up
in
school,
so
you
know
we
need
to
get
out
there
and
maybe
get
involved
in
some
of
those.
B
B
What
people
group
dominates
it
right
now,
so
let's
just
give
them
the
expectation
of
success
out
front
and
then
mentoring.
I
think
that's
pretty
obvious.
You
guys
are
all
successful
in
your
careers.
You've
taken
different
paths.
Everybody
can
be
a
mentor
some
way
or
another.
I
have
a
unique
path
to
where
I've
landed
in
the
technical
side
of
things,
and
here
I
am
so
you
know
there
is
just
a
lot
of
opportunity
out
there.
B
So
really
technology
touches
every
single
industry.
As
you
guys
know,
I
mean
there
isn't
an
industry
anymore,
that
technical
work
and
coding
and
program
is
not
critical.
I
mean
retail
super
important
right,
finance,
very
important.
Every
industry,
technical
technology
touches
it.
So
I
love
the
quote
this
morning.
It
was
kind
of
perfect
for
the
one
minute
I
was
going
to
spend
to
make
ghosts
successful.
We
need
everybody
and
everybody's,
not
here
so
that
being
said,
I
have
a
few
questions
and
I
would
like
feedback
from
you
guys
as
well.
C
C
C
D
I
work
for
ibm
and
I
got
introduced
to
node
through
developing
iot
applications,
so
there's
just
a
natural
synergy
between
node
and
iot,
and
I
was
hooked
so
I'm
just
having
a
lot
of
fun
exploring
what
we
can
do
with
it
and
I
always
loved
math.
I
loved
problem
solving.
I
started
off
as
math
and
then
I
was
looking
into
engineering
and
architecture
and
then
I
found
programming
and
the
results
were
immediate.
D
B
So
I
don't
know
if
anyone
in
the
audience
has
a
particular
course
or
path
that
they
wouldn't
be
interested
in
sharing,
because
one
of
the
things
that
I
would
like
to
take
away
is
what
are
some
of
the
ways
that
we
can
further
get
the
younger
generation,
or
even
you
know
it
could
be
our
generation
more
interested
in
nodes,
specifically
or
any
side
of
technology?
Does
anyone
have
anything
they
would
like
to
share?
Yes,
can
you
introduce.
F
B
A
I
find
goes
a
long
way
towards
getting
more
people
helping
and
being
involved
and
then
sticking
around,
but
what
I
find
most
is
helping
raise
up
other
people,
so
it's
not
forcing
them
necessarily.
I
know
that
it's
like,
I
totally
get
it,
but
it's
it's
not
like
yeah.
You
clearly
want
don't
want
to
coerce
someone
into
like
helping
out
or
being
a
part
of
something
because
they
will
very
quickly
leave.
A
G
Not
only
can
you
lead
that
change,
it's
actually
part
of
your
responsibility
as
a
steward
of
the
community
to
lead
that
change
as
a
way
white
male
perceived
right
and
as
an
overrepresented
group,
the
least
horrible
things
will
happen
to
you.
If
you
stand
up
for
marginalized
groups,
the
worst
thing
that
could
possibly
happen
to
you
is
someone
turns
around
and
makes
fun
of
you
for
five
seconds.
The
worst
thing
that
could
happen
to
me
when
I
stand
up
to
someone
who's
bullying
me
is
get
told
to
commit
suicide.
G
So
it's
not
just
something
you
can
do
as
a
member
of
the
community
that's
over
represented,
I
believe
it's
part
of
your
responsibility
as
someone
who
who
wants
to
be
a
steward
of
the
community,
to
bring
people
in
from
marginalized
groups
and
prove
that
you
have
a
safe
space
for
them,
but
it
does
come
with
that
responsibility
like
it's
going
to
be
a
lot
of
hard
work
to
prove
that
you
have
a
safe
space.
I
have
yet
to
find
a
truly
space
space
in
tech.
G
G
For
instance,
when
I
encourage
women
of
women
of
color
or
trans
women
to
speak
at
events,
I
warned
them.
You're
gonna
get
for
it
and
I
get
I'm
honest
with
them
about
it.
But
if
you
can't
prove
you
truly
save
space,
then
you
have
to
be
honest
with
them
about
it
at
the
very
least,
but
I
I
feel
like
a
lot
of
white
white
men
in
general
like
to
sit
around
and
say,
but
can't
I
I
can't
do
anything
or
what
can
I
do?
G
B
So
she
just
empowered
you
to
go
yeah
and
we'll
be
checking
back
with
you
in
a
little
while
all
right.
Okay,
so
if
you
guys
could
give
advice,
giving
guidance,
let's,
let's
say
your
mentors.
What
would
you
say
to
someone?
That's
you
know
just
really
focused
on
math.
Maybe
has
totally
I
mean
she
was
a
baker.
What
would
you
say
to
give
someone
advice
or
guidance
so
that
they
could
really
bust
in
and
get
engaged
with,
the
node
community
or
technology
in
general?
You
have
any
thoughts
about
that.
C
Okay,
so,
first
of
all,
I
would
say
that
the
the
baker
and
the
person
who
is
actively
a
math
major
in
school
are
already
in
very
different
situations.
I
work
with
an
organization
called
script,
ed
in
new
york
that
is
focused
on
teaching
high
school
students
in
schools
that
don't
have
computer
science,
education,
programs,
basic
html,
css
and
javascript,
and
I
had
a
boss
of
mine,
stand
up
on
a
panel
in
front
of
those
kids
and
say
it
doesn't
matter
what
you
major
in
you
know.
You
can
find
a
career
in
tech
anyway.
C
The
fact
is
that,
like
that
may
be
true,
but
it
was
going
to
be
infinitely
harder
for
those
kids
to
do
that
than
for
him,
like
he
was
a
film
major,
but
when
he,
after
that,
you
know
sort
of
he
he
fell
into
programming
very
naturally.
That
was
something
that
he
said.
The
process
is
not
going
to
be
natural
or
painless
for
low-income
new
york
city
high
school
students,
you
know
the
film
degrees
that
are
even
accessible
to
them
are
going
to
have
them
their
resumes
laughed
out.
C
C
You
actually
do
in
a
sense
have
to
let
people
know
what
they
are
getting
themselves
into
and
you
have
to
let
them
know
about
the
barriers
that
they
face
so
that
when
they
see
those
when
they
when
they
hit
those
barriers,
they
don't
wonder
if
the
problem
is
them,
because
thinking
that
the
problem
is,
you
is
the
killer
of
the
confidence
that
you
need
to
succeed
in
you
know
really
quite
a
hard
industry.
We
actually
do
solve
hard
problems.
C
I
I
don't
think
that
it
is
more
difficult
than
being
a
baker,
but
I
do
think
that
it
is
a
a
combination.
There
is
a
combination
of
like
honestly
boredom
in
tech
and
like
the
difficulty
in
acquiring
the
foundational
skills
that
you
need
simply
because
math
and
science
are
the
things
worst
taught,
at
least
in
the
american
education
system.
You
know
people
if
somebody
does
bad
lead
in
english
class.
They
don't
think
like.
C
Oh
well
now
I
can't
ever
write
again,
but
if
somebody
has
one
bad
math
teacher
stem
itself
can
get
closed
off
to
them
forever,
so
yeah.
The
advice
that
I
would
give
anyone
who
is
even
vaguely
interested
in
tech
is
the
advice
that
I
generally
give,
which
is
take
as
many
science
and
math
get
as
much
exposure
to
science
and
math
as
you
possibly
can.
Every
single
bit
of
it
will
help
you
a
physics
class
will
help
you
in
your
web
programming
job.
C
You
know
a
a
chemistry
class
will
help
you
in
your
web
programming
job
and
it's
not
just
the
fact
that
you
take
it.
It's
not
just
the
classes
that
you
take
it's
the
perception
that
that
creates
of
you
for
other
people,
because,
honestly,
the
I
think
literally
anyone
could
do
this
job
if
they
were
given
the
chance,
and
it's
that,
if
that
is
where
the
failure
occurs,.
D
I
agree
with
all
of
that.
I
think
the
basic
thing
is
problem
solving
as
long
as
all
these
classes
that
you're
talking
about
it's
all
about
problem
solving,
how
you
can
break
things
down,
take
them
apart,
put
them
back
together
again
and
as
long
as
you
can.
Your
background
shows
that
you're,
a
problem,
solver
you're
good
to
go,
and
then
it's
just
a
matter
of
acquiring
the
necessary
skills,
but
also
we
have
to
start
young
for
little
girls.
We
need
to
give
them
lego
sets.
D
We
need
to
give
them
robotic,
toolkits
we
nee.
We
need
to
give
them
all
these
cool
toys
that
we
usually
give
only
boys
right.
You
have
to
open
new
doors
for
them
when
they're
young,
so
they
don't
feel
limited
at.
Oh,
that's
a
boys
game
or
you
know
that's
what
boys
do
that's
what
men
do?
They
need
to
see
that
the
engineers
around
them
are
both
men
and
women
so
that
they
know
that
they
can
inspire
to
aspire
to
be
both.
So
I
think
it
needs
to
start
young.
D
You
start
with
your
nieces,
your
nephews,
your
your
friends,
kids,
your
own
kids
and
you
inspire
them
that,
just
because
you're,
a
girl
doesn't
mean
that
you
have
to
be.
You
know,
there's
only
one
kind
of
role
that
you
aspire
to.
You
can
be
anything
as
long
as
you
have
a
brain.
You
can
solve
a
problem
and
that's
all
there
is
to
it.
H
H
How
do
you
get
that
pipeline
to
you
know
not
be
really
leaky,
because
once
you
get
into
the
pipeline,
what
happens
is
you
you
just
drop
them
along
the
way
and
it's
pointless
right
like
there
are
people
here
right
now
at
this
conference
there
are
people
in
the
node
community
right
now,
and
some
of
them
are
flocking
out
of
the
place
and
there's
there's
no
point
in
educating
a
bunch
of
people.
If
they're
going
to
fall
into
the
same
toxic
environment,
that's
leading
people
to
just
leave
altogether
and
find
other
places
to
go
to.
G
Yeah,
no,
I
actually
echo
her
sentiment
with
the
the
analogy
that
yeah
we
can
fix
the
pipeline.
All
we
want,
but
until
it
stops
leading
into
a
giant
pit
of
radioactive
sewage,
are
we
really
fixing
anything?
Frankly,
I
feel
more
and
more
alienated.
Every
time
I
go
to
a
node
conference
because
more
and
more
bad
behavior
goes
unattended
to
and
ignored
and
yeah
like
I,
I
actually
don't
want
to
fix
the
pipeline
problem
until
we
fix
the
pit
of
toxic
sewage.
We
dump
these
girls
into
once.
C
Thank
you
so
much.
This
is
actually
great.
It's
like
we're
passing
a
baton
around
you
know,
so
the
thing
that
has
made
me
feel
safest
in
technology
and
most
like
I
have
a
future
in
this
industry
has
been
getting
to
know
other,
let's
just
say
engineers
from
underrepresented
groups,
and
actually
there
is
a
slack
channel
that
I'm
in
that
literally
is
the
wind
under
my
wings.
It
is
the
fire
in
my
blood.
It
is
the
only
thing
that
keeps
me
going.
C
A
lot
of
the
time
is
knowing
that
I
can
reach
out
to
other
people
who
have
had
similar,
often
identical
experiences
of
the
the
bad
stuff
that
can
happen
to
us,
which
I'm
not
going
to
name
and
so
having
those
experiences
validated.
You
know
knowing
that
you're,
not
crazy,
that
this
it
is
real
and
I
was
also
already
kind
of
primed
for
those
experiences,
because
I
are
primed
to
be
in
a
group
like
that,
because
I
went
to
a
women's
college
and,
to
a
large
extent
I
am.
C
C
So
in
response
to
the
question
of
like
places
where
I
have
seen
kind
of
diversity
done
right,
I
had
a
cto
who
was
female
at
my
last
company
and
while
she
was
there,
we
knew
that
we
had
a
voice
and
it
wasn't
just
women
that
she
advocated
for
at
the
company.
It
was
a
variety
of
people
who
you
don't
see
as
engineers
there
is
a.
C
I
almost
want
to
call
it
a
lineage
of
black
engineers
at
that
company
now
in
due
largely
due,
mostly
to
the
incredible
talents
that
they
possess,
but
also
due
to
the
fact
that
she,
as
a
leader,
was
willing
to
put
herself
out
there
and
take
personal
risks,
argue
with
the
business
side
to
like
get
these
people
jobs
and
then
to
protect
them.
It's
the
same
with
female
engineers
at
that
company
she
left
and
suddenly
we
started
leaving
too.
C
Okay,
so
you
run
two
meetups
right
and
I
think
the
question
that
you're
asking
is:
how
do
I
start
it?
How
do
I
like
put
this
seed
in
the
ground?
I
think
you
you
need
to
find
you.
You
need
to
find
some
people
in
your
community.
You
know,
maybe
you
have
like
a
women
who
code
type
of
meetup.
Maybe
you
have
a
some
kind
of
coding,
education
programs,
it's
funny
that
this
is
where
I
tell
you
to
look
for
female
engineers.
C
Like
you
know,
in
the
diversity
and
education
communities-
and
you
know
here
we
here-
we
are
too,
you
know
you,
you
find
somebody
and
you
let
them
know
that
they
are
going
to
have
power,
that
it
is
not
an
empty
thing
that
you
are
giving
them
that
you
are
not
asking
them
to
be
on
your
panel
and
then
not
listening
to
their
hiring
recommendations
or
when
they
suggest
hey.
Why
don't
we
give
discounted
tickets
to
you
know
the
kids
from
this
high
school?
C
Why
don't
we
give
discounted
tickets
to
members
of
this
like
women's
learn
to
node
meetup
group?
You
know
if
such
a
thing
were
to
exist.
You
say
instead
of
oh
god,
you
know,
but
that
would
like
cut
into
the
bottom
line
for
the
meet
up
for
this
month.
I
don't
know
you
say
yes,
I
think
that's!
I
I'm
listening
to
you
and
I'm
going
to
make
the
things
that
you
think
are
important
happen.
C
You
you
have
to
it's
it's.
What
delegation
always
consists
of,
because
you're
asking
in
some
sense
you
have
influence.
How
do
you
delegate
it
effectively,
you
you
find
people
and
you
trust
them,
and
when
you
trust
them
they
will
trust
you
and
building.
That
is
what
is
so
difficult.
Also,
when
you
up
you
say
sorry
very
quickly,.
B
B
We
got
a
group
of
people
here
and
there's
always
going
to
be
somebody
here
or
there
that
says
some
really
stupid
stuff
and
that's
unfortunate,
and
one
thing
we
can
do
is
work
on
getting
better
at
addressing
the
stupid
stuff
and
rejecting
that
is
any
sort
of
line
of
thinking
that
the
large
group,
I
would
say,
98
of
the
people,
are
on
board
with
what
we
want
to
do
here.
It's
the
two
that
sometimes
you
just
want
to
you
know.
So
that's
one
thing
we
could
do
better
at
right.
So
thank
you
for
coming.