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Be together, not the same

Romain Piel
September 23, 2016

Be together, not the same

Romain Piel

September 23, 2016
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  1. We want more diversity Gender Ethnicity Sexual identity Sexual orientation

    Disability Age Origin of country Language Religion Political views
  2. Reason why people from underrepresented groups drop: • An unwelcoming

    work culture • Isolation • Unadapted working style • Work/life balance • Lack of advancement, lack of recognition source: https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/reports/hightech/
  3. 1. Membership 2. Influence
 Exchange of ideas “No, you should

    use a good old AsyncTask” “RxJava is the way to go”
  4. 1. Membership 2. Influence
 Exchange of ideas
 Conformity
 Diversity of

    ideas “RxJava is the way to go” “We’ve built our own solution, Agera, it’s pretty cool too!”
  5. 1. Membership 2. Influence 3. Integration and 
 fulfilment of

    needs - High demand for Android developers - A trendy technology, billions of users - A very skilled community
  6. 1. Membership 2. Influence 3. Integration and 
 fulfilment of

    needs 4. Shared emotional connection Open-source Google IO Google Developer experts Android weekly Meetups & Conferences Social medias Fragmented podcast Android dialogs Blog posts
  7. 1. Membership 2. Influence 3. Integration and 
 fulfilment of

    needs 4. Shared emotional connection Community
  8. – Coraline Ada Ehmke “A community is people who share

    values, culture is the expression of shared values.”
  9. 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% White Hispanic Black Asian Other

    US workforce US tech industry Source: 2010 US Census and 2014 EEO-1 US reports from the following companies: Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Intel
  10. 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% White Hispanic Black Asian Other

    US workforce US tech industry Source: 2010 US Census and 2014 EEO-1 US reports from the following companies: Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Amazon Tech
  11. 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% White Hispanic Black Asian Other

    US workforce US tech industry Source: 2010 US Census and 2014 EEO-1 US reports from the following companies: Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Intel Leadership
  12. 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% US workforce US Tech industry

    Men Women Source: 2010 US Census and 2014 EEO-1 US reports from the following companies: Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Intel
  13. 0 6 12 18 24 30 <20 20-24 25-29 30-34

    35-39 40-49 50-59 >60 Average Age Source: 2016 Stack Overflow developer survey http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016
  14. Source: 2014 E&T’s LGBT engineering community survey http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2014/07/never-good-to-carry-secrets.cfm I am

    open about my sexual orientation at work 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% Strongly Agree Strongly Disagree Male Female Other 21.3% 13.1% 20.5% 17.6% 27.6%