07-24, 14:30–15:30 (US/Eastern), BoF: Room 353
We’ll have a birds of a feather session to discuss and brainstorm diversity and inclusion in the Julia community. All are welcome!
JuliaCon 2018 was the most diverse JuliaCon yet. Though the success of this event demonstrated progress in the diversity and inclusivity of our community, the continued underrepresentation of individuals identifying as female or as racial/ethnic minorities, for example, indicates that we have a long way to go. As greater language stability increases the confidence of our community members to recruit new users and to invest further in the language and its community, interest in diversity efforts tied to the language seem to be gaining momentum. We would like to hold a birds of a feather session to discuss and brainstorm diversity and inclusion in the Julia community.
Kelly Shen is a data engineer at Etsy, where she works on improving the e-commerce company’s in-house A/B testing platform. She has been using Julia since her undergraduate days at MIT. In her free time, Kelly enjoys reading, painting and listening to music.
Nathan Daly is a Software Engineer at RelationalAI. He was first introduced to the idea of contributing to JuliaLang as one small way to help fight climate change by making scientific computing a little bit easier: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange