Love out Loud for #Diversity (en)

Fiona Krakenbürger, Florian Breisch, Chinmayi SK, Gabriela
Agustini, Lena Kuhlmann At least the problem has been recognized:
there are women missing in tech. And it isn’t just women: expert
discussions, management levels or the very public forums of
specialized conferences or hackspaces lack women and
LGBTQ-identifying people. But there is a global movement of
aspiring initiatives who have decided to diversify IT- and hacking
communities worldwide. People are organising workshops or
hackathons for girls, there are queer hackspaces emerging all over
the world and in spite of the existence of all of these
initiatives, there is still a lot of work to do. On the Love out
Loud panel, activists share their experiences in bringing more
diversity into technology. Format: Lightning Talk + Discussion
Moderation: Lena Kuhlmann Chinmay SK - Random Hacks of Kindness
(RHoK) is part of a global community of technologists and
changemakers who are ‘hacking for good’. They organise hackathons
that bring together volunteer developers and activists to work with
NGOs, social enterprises and the civil society. Fiona Krakenbürger
- In 2015, a handful of women visited a hacker’s camp and were
amazed at the awesome bunch of women they met there - but were
painfully missing places to network and meet them again back home.
The idea for a women's hackspace was born and the Heart of Code was
launched in 2016. Gabriela Agustini is founder and director of
Olabi Makerspace, a social enterprise focused on encouraging the
use of new (and old) technologies for social change. Based in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she has travelled to more than 15 countries
in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Oceania, working on projects or
speaking at events related to innovation.