The Code Manifesto: Empowering our community
The Code Manifesto is a set of values, created in hopes of guiding our community towards a place that is welcoming, safe, and empowering to all.
Currently, our communities are greatly lacking in diversity, and sometimes outright hostile towards the minority members that we do have. In this talk I try to illustrate that problem, and also cover WHY it matters, and finally what we can do to help fix it.
I talk about what the Code Manifesto is, why it came to be, and why each of the values were selected.
Duration: 45 min
Graham is a Staff Engineer at Refinery29 in Manhattan, author of the CodeManifesto, co-creator of HackTheStigma and US Lead for PHPWomen. He represents the PHP League of Extraordinary Packages for the PHP-FIG. He's a passionate engineer that enjoys solving problems, mentoring others and being involved in the community. He can usually be found on twitter talking about his kids, food, or code.
