07-10, 16:30–17:30 (Europe/Amsterdam), Struct (1.4)
Julia Gender Inclusive is an initiative that aims to provide a supportive space for all gender minorities in the Julia community. In this BoF session we hope to discuss the status of (gender) diversity in the community, plan initiatives, and engage supportive allies. While we focus on gender diversity, we would like to open the discussion up to all facets of diversity to connect organizers of different diversity initiatives and start new initiatives. We invite everyone to get involved!
The objective of this BoF is to create space for discussion and community building among people who feel their gender is underrepresented within the Julia community, as well as allies who want to support us. We aim to create a safe and fruitful discussion about gender diversity, increase awareness of our current initiatives such as the Julia Gender Inclusive Community Hours, receive input on new actions we can take as Julia Gender Inclusive, and reach out to others who want to get involved.
This year, we want to further enhance the contact between different diversity initiatives in the community and open the discussion up to different aspects of diversity.
PhD student in the MIT Probabilistic Computing Project and Computational Cognitive Science lab.
Leticia Madureira is a PhD student in theoretical chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University. Her interests go from materials applications of molecular environments, focusing on studying conjugated systems and their quantum coherence, but also developing methods on the realm of electronic structure methods. She has been using Julia for 4 years and her goal is to answer fundamental scientific equations with high performance software engineering.
I am a research software engineer working on both sea ice modeling and computational geometry in Julia.
Julia Gender Inclusive is an initiative to promote gender diversity and inclusion within the wider Julia community. We aim to do this through a combination of community building, targeted outreach, education, mentorship, and mutual support, in the hopes of addressing potential causes of gender under-representation.
We welcome anyone who sees their gender as under-represented within the Julia community, including women, non-binary people, trans people of all genders, and people exploring or questioning their gender. Because gender is multifaceted, we are intentionally being general about what gender under-representation means.
I'm a PhD student in numerical mechanics working with Finite Element Analysis in Julia.
I'm also a co-organizer of the diversity initiative Julia Gender Inclusive and very passionate about making open source programming awesome for even more people!