Keynote in English - US at CascadiaPHP 2024
View Slides: https://heiglandreas.github.io/slidedeck/20241025-cascadiaphp24_globalDiversity/index.html#/
Short URL: https://joind.in/talk/10a12
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Diversity has become a kind of mainstream topic. Every event advertise diversity in one way or another. Every company – especially in the tech sector – has their own ideas on how diverse they are.
But what does Diversity mean? Is the percentage of female employees enough? And what does Diversity mean on a global level? Things that are perfectly normal in one country are far beyond reach in another one.
For me, visiting countries considered to be amongst the poorest in the world was mind-boggling. Meeting local developers has opened my eyes to how privileged I am and how little I'd realized that before.
Let me take you on a journey to interesting countries, wonderful people and a lot of things we all can do to scale diversity to a global level. To not only help the people in "underdeveloped" countries but also to help our own technical communities to grow and to include much more diverse ideas.
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Thought provoking talk - obviously there are counter-points to each conclusion the talk arrives at. But the questions raised are complex and worth wrestling with.
Thank you for putting this talk together.
Definitely provocative. Raised many good questions. Some are unanswered, but thinking about them is the best start.
A lot of great points in your talk. I find hiring outside the US to be an ethical challenge and you helped make it less so.
A ton of great things to think about. Some with answers, others still wide open.
Great talk! It sparked a great discussion at my table after the talk.
Loved this talk, addressing the hard questions about expanding PHP. Good to get those out in the open for discussion.
I feel this is an important talk, and an important subject that needs to be talked about. Thank you!
Andreas opened this talk by calling out his personal context of existing within the intersection of demographics most privileged by currently dominant cultural norms, and how that might seem incongruous with his giving a diversity talk, but that was actually one of the things I most appreciated about this presentation. Andreas calling out how important, powerful, and complex the idea of diverse teams can be, and how worthwhile tackling the challenges to achieve equitable diverse teams is from that privileged perspective, I think has the ability to influence folks that might not even realize they're discounting the value of the perspectives he's championing.