Creating More Inclusive Tech Spaces - Paths Forward

Explore the challenges and potential solutions for creating more inclusive tech spaces in this 41-minute conference talk from Strange Loop. Analyze various approaches taken by technology companies, open source communities, and hacker/makerspaces to improve representation of underrepresented groups. Examine the systemic barriers that have limited the success of diversity efforts in the tech industry. Discover how the concept of generative justice can provide a framework for rethinking the problem, focusing on bottom-up, grassroots projects as catalysts for broader systemic change. Gain insights from Amy Wallhermfechtel, a labor and business historian turned software engineer, as she shares her unique perspective on the intersection of technology, diversity, and social systems.

Introduction
My background
Confessionary slide
Examples
Thesis Statement
Rebalancing a Spectrum
Paths Forward
Technology
Technology with Powers
Cotton Picking Machine
Diversity in Tech
Sociotechnical Systems
Pinyon Jay Example
Diversity
Code of Conduct
Defining Diversity
Live Practice
Amazon
Representation doesnt always mean power
Efficiency to recursivity
Market logic for diversity
Recursivity
Recursive Depth
The Graph
Summary
Takeaways
Bibliography