The world is experiencing some scary weather right now. Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, earthquakes … we’ve got it all going on. I hope that wherever you are, you are safe.
Though I can’t physically volunteer in any of the disaster areas, I, along with my Greater Than Code panelists wanted to do something of meaning. We were fortunate enough to find Jeff Reichman, a technologist in the Houston area who founded Sketch City. Jeff took time out of his sleepless schedule to talk to us about how the Houston tech community came together to help people through Hurricane Harvey and the aftermath, the technology opportunities in disaster response, the harvey-api that they developed, and how tech devs need to be side-by-side with relief efforts, while responding to tech needs right away.
Please take a time out to listen to this very important and special episode.
Shoutouts:
Book Club! The Responsible Communication Style Guide will be partnering with the Greater Than Code podcast on October 18th! Read along with us and tweet your thoughts, opinions, and questions to @greaterthancode! Also, they will be taking questions live in their Patron-supported Slack community. Join today and opt into the #bookclub channel!
Learn coding with potatoes! Potato Pirates is a strategic card game perfect for classrooms, family days, or even game night with friends. Back it on Kickstarter! (I did!)
I Did A Thing: A Twitter bot looking for awesome things made by the people in the #QPOC community! Then, human Kara Carrell puts those things in a Tiny Letter newsletter for ease of consumption. Sign up!
Reading:
From Sex Object to Gritty Woman: The Evolution of Women in Stock Photos: An interesting writeup of how stock photos have (thankfully) changed over the years in popularity. Today, in 2017, the most downloaded image of “woman” depicts one of power and independence.
How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out: Common work stressors, signs of burnout to watch out for, and ways to combat it.
Stop Policing How Women Speak: A brilliant piece from Amy Nguyen about the way women are more likely to be scrutinized for using “annoying speech patterns” like the word “like” and “ums” in their vocabulary. Newsflash: men do it too.
Listening:
Greater Than Code 045: Sexual Assault and Project Callisto with Lynn Cyrin: In this episode Lynn Cyrin, a developer on the Project Callisto sexual assault reporting application, talks about institutional betrayal, the importance of keeping survivor information private and the technology behind the app.
Stuff Mom Never Told You: What’s Wrong with School Dress Codes? Do school dress codes actually make students more effective?
Conference Talk of the Week:
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“Why it’s Essential to Demystify Technology” by Saumya Pandey
“It’s no secret that we need diversity in technology. One of the reasons people shy away from technology is because of the stereotypes that makes technology fields less relatable. As members of tech community, we need to take steps towards shattering the stereotypes and towards making technology and its study more relatable and exciting. By 2020, we would have more technology jobs than tech resources and in order to bridge that gap and get more diverse crowd like young women, interested in technology, we need to take some action. My talk will revolve around this idea of why its important to demystify technology and what are some steps we can take in that direction.”
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Midwest PHP – Closes November 20th (Offers Travel Assistance!)
.concat() – Closes December 1st
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Mandy Moore, also known around the Internets as @therubyrep, is a podcast production expert, mother of orange tabbies, and sucker for bad reality television. She adores her 7-year-old daughter, Reese’s peanut butter cups, and sitting around fire pits while listening to country music. She is a huge advocate for STEM education and women in technology. She is also the show manager and maintainer of Greater Than Code.
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