 Hello Sorry, we were getting a late start, but we are Doing a session on extending the abstract class of privilege outcomes and lessons learned. I'm Ferris of all I am a Drupal developer with Booz Allen Hamilton Hi, and I'm Ashraf I run debug Academy Yeah Oh, we're gonna have to transition on two monitors separately All right, so we wanted to talk about What privileges first? there is some Disagreement about the definition amongst you know five-year-olds and adults we don't all agree But basically you can see here. It's When some people can eat candy every day, they don't even have to ask they just get it And other people can ask nicely and they don't They don't have access to it the less fun definition Is unearned accesses to resource resources? Feel free to read through that But that definition tends to make people feel uncomfortable I Think it's the word unearned when you're talking to someone and telling them they have something that they didn't earn Tends to strike a nerve and If you know if that's how you feel fair enough But I think we can Define it from the other perspective And we'll find that more people tend to be In agreement over the existence of this problem So what is being underprivileged? You're lacking the access to the resources Expecting that much less people have a problem than they're trying to convey We're realizing that rectifying the above would be a future goal that is actually very attainable but we are Reducing the benefits that they have just by preconceived notions, which is something that we need to work on Which is the purpose of this? So to illustrate I'm gonna Tell you about something that happened to me in high school So when I was in high school, I got pulled over for speeding Initially the cop was pretty friendly joking around with me like oh man, you know, what are you driving an airplane? You know that kind of stuff very friendly. I still expected to get a ticket But overall, you know, I wasn't very worried. I Handed him my license and that's when it changed. He read my name basically Felt then then he looked at me differently immediately after reading my name he got very hostile basically switched from joking to mad and He basically was accusing me of speeding in pursuit of terrorism He literally switched his line of questioning from, you know, were you driving an airplane to do you have a bomb in your car? Do you have machine guns in your car and he wasn't joking? my reaction was Surely you can't be serious and He didn't take too kindly to that So he arrested me he towed my car handcuffed me took me to the police station When that during that ride I tend to not really get phased when people say insulting things because I'm just like oh It's unfortunate that you're that unintelligent But I don't take it really personally. So I was basically Sitting in the cop car hands handcuffed behind my back and I started a conversation so I said, do you pull people over often and he Yeah, he engaged, you know, first he would you continue to be hostile, but eventually he basically was you know felt bad for Arresting me And he apologized He said I shouldn't have done that, but I already called it in So I can't call it in and say I changed my mind so he took me in anyway and They put me in a holding cell for about eight hours That was not his decision. So from that point forward he pretty much became an ally He was like defending me saying oh, we should let him go, you know, he didn't do anything too bad but the person there kind of had his same initial reaction and She was like no we're keeping him locked up So she kept me locked up for ten hours, even though I had the bail ready to pay and I was ready to leave The the talk isn't fully about this but a lot of people have trouble accepting that You know privilege is a real thing But I think this example really illustrates it clearly because he was very nice then very mean then very nice and This actually impacted my career because when I was not in a big way But when I was interviewing for a job that required a security clearance, they said have you ever been arrested? I had to say yes And they didn't like that So we're talking about issues that stem, you know You'd never think that sort of thing would happen, but a lot of people that take my class Have faced all sorts of situations that you wouldn't expect them to have gone through beforehand All right, so yeah, we all have biases you can see this tweet Basically yesterday a professor asked a room full of medical students who had been Asked them who had been mistaken for the nurse in the clinical situations and every female and one black male raised their hand Not a single white male raised their hand Basically bias in professional fields is real We all have biases even people who are underprivileged have biases It's natural But you have to be aware of them and you can't blindly trust your instincts when you meet someone and you have a reaction Before they speak especially you can't assume that your reaction is right You know you have all this life experience etc You have to kind of stop before you talk and say what kind of reaction did I have? what part of it is based in fact about this person specifically and If you had some reaction and you were able to catch yourself don't Then proceed to Say oh I originally thought this and I realized this you know keep it to yourself. It doesn't help anybody We don't want anyone to feel Unwelcome even in those comments and passing if people are worried that you feel a certain way you don't want to kind of Confirm I did have that thought but I don't have that thought you know Yeah I actually requested to do this one since I've had my share of gender bias There have been so many things since I've started web development as a new career since that wasn't actually where I started I dealt with having after taking debug Academy I became a Drupal developer and Even when I was going to interviews or Just talking in general people would assume that I knew less than I did and because of that I assumed it to and it actually hindered my ability to Really believe in myself until Until later until I had changed to a different company, which I'll get into that in a second Yeah, so women tend to be assigned tasks, I'm gonna just start with my story really quick Yes, I'm short. Thank you So my first tech job I worked for a startup that was seven men and me Since it was such a small office it kind of had that family feel to it Which I didn't think it was but anyway right when I had started the President and vice president they started giving me things like kitchen tasks or refilling Paper things like that things that were administrative that they could probably do themselves, but because I was there and willing to help which is how they'd so lovingly put it They started doing it more and more until finally, I just I couldn't take it and That's when I I didn't lash out But they finally knew that they weren't supposed to be asking me that since I was hired as a web developer Which brings me to a different story and I was hired as a junior dev and The only other one the only other developer was a senior one so we were assigned to work closely together and After a while it was it was pretty good. I was there a few minutes a few months and He started to act weird and I wasn't sure why and it Escalated to a point where I had to call him out and be like is there something going on that you're not telling me did I do something am I not doing what I'm supposed to be doing and he proceeded to pull me in an into a conference room and Starts yelling at me Saying that he thought I had wanted to be a developer that I was being too social with the other people in the office, which Was confusing since we all kind of talked most of the day since we were such a small team and He then said that his Feelings for me were affecting his objectivity Which again confused me since he was maybe 10 years older and I had given him no indication that that was something I wanted Even after he had asked if I wanted to get drinks and things like that and yeah, I clearly wasn't interested but He after he had finished yelling at me. He didn't apologize or anything We just left and he pulled the p.m. Into a meeting and he just explained everything that had happened and An hour later the p.m. Came to me and Apologized profusely is like I have no idea where that came from. I'm so sorry You're able to work from home if you want for a few days a week, but we can't force you to be here and It was kind of strange to me since I was so new to the tech world and I didn't want to cause too many ripples and I just said it's fine. We'll work it out. It'll be alright so that day as luck would have it I caught the flu of my life and I was home for a little over a week When I came back to the office. He was gone and I had no idea what happened. They told me he had moved projects and It was fine. I just said okay, whatever. That's I kind of expected that a few months go by and it turned out they had finally told me that he had fallen apart that week and Came into the office like unkempt. He was sobbing And I have no idea why but And he had told them that he had a gun Which was an extreme reaction So they had asked him to leave and if he had left right away, they wouldn't call anyone He would just need to seek help so I Didn't know that It months went by before they told me that and the only indication I had was that The week after I came back. I needed to be a walk to my car or actually the month I came back so two people would alternate walking me to my car every day and I had no idea why I just thought maybe he would profess his love to me in a different way but Obviously, that's an extreme thing Most stories like that don't involve firearms But the more I told that story the more I realized that people women would Come back to me with a similar story and that's something that I'm sorry, it would not happen to most men Because you're in a professional setting and you work closely with people and you don't expect to Be pulled into a conference room after having just joined the tech world and be yelled at for nothing only to have him say that and then Deal with the firearm issue, but he still haunts my dreams if that But because of that I was Nervous way more nervous that I needed to be because I wasn't sure of my ability anymore I thought maybe I was hired because he had liked me because he was the one who interviewed me So when I was dealing with that it was like, oh, no, maybe I'm not as good To even work anywhere and I stayed there until our contract ended and I wish I hadn't because I joined Booz Allen Hamilton and Joined an incredible team that I have never seen I feel like this should be at the end but I've never seen so many women in tech and just able to support and improve my skills Thank you Yeah, we open up with you know the personal stories, but it gets a little lighter Let's see so you might have read the slide, but There are a couple of things that you might be doing in your office or it might be happening in your office that you don't notice There have been studies on this it's Most of the things, you know, it's not cited because it's the PowerPoint But most of the things are based on research and they're as well as personal experiences, of course But there is a tendency to assign woman tasks that are less impressive and what I mean by that is tasks where You know, maybe it's like, okay, you go fix up the styling and you know We have something more complicated like it may be a migration and we'll give that to the guy There's a tendency to do that and think nothing of it, but that kind of accumulates and impacts promotions impacts future job interviews like what did you work on? Well, I mostly did you know styling. It's it's different than saying you did a migration and And you know in programming even if you feel like the woman hasn't done it before I think I've seen more tendency to give a guy who hasn't done something before Something he hasn't done before whereas with women you might just think well, she does front-end and Not really test the waters and find out if she likes to do back in development. Was there something all right? Yeah, and we you know, we just had other examples my my my mom actually she majored in Electrical engineering and when she was interviewing one of the things she saw from a few people was basically Oh god, you're gonna leave and have kids So that was something that you know when she was interviewing was something people could say out loud But basically, you know, there's all sorts of barriers that You know people of various genders face that maybe, you know men don't experience so, you know, I teach the debug Academy classes and I worked at aquia for a while I was doing it part-time, but I found that there was a lot I know I haven't pulled off the bullets yet, but I I found there's a lot of opportunity to kind of Help people who wouldn't get into tech. Otherwise, if only I had more time But some things I've learned from running the classes are Women are just as interested in tech as men. It's it's not even a question of What they were doing before if you talk to them and You pick your words carefully. You don't say do you do tech you might say is that something you're curious about it? You know or you you presented as well. I think you can do it. Would you want to do it? You know the wording can Can really influence it but basically You know just as many women are interested as men that I speak to and Female students tend to be the top performers in the class you'll often have sometimes you'll have a guy come in with more tech experience and just kind of Think that they get it all and you'll have women come in and think you know Maybe this field isn't for me, but they tend to work harder And I found that you know we do an assessment an exam at the end of the semester And the female students tend to do better than the male students in general So how have we actually helped or extended privilege for them? The first one is you know, they get message, you know people get messages Basically that make them feel like they're not welcome into tech. So you have to counter that. It's not just about being neutral You kind of have to let them know You know, this is something you can do It's not as complicated as people like to make it sound Let's give you the information take a stab at it if you don't like it, you know, it's not the end of the world One of the things that I've done in the class is Typically when you sign up for a class, let's say you attend the first week and you drop out. There's typically a big penalty We just we give work before the semester starts for the semester for the month before the semester starts just HTML CSS that sort of thing If you really don't like that, then maybe you shouldn't take the class, you know It's a chance to find that out But also during the semester if you're two or three weeks in I've had a couple of people basically Approach me and just say, okay, this isn't for me, you know, I don't like it and You know depending on the semester honestly because it is a business We will have some where we'll just refund them the whole payment if we can But otherwise we don't give a penalty for having joined the course We essentially pro rate it you pay for the classes you took you get all the money back for the ones you haven't taken And that's been helpful for people to also make the decision because I think if I take one class It's not the end of the world if I drop out Also, we strongly endorse them and this is something everyone can do If you know a woman looking to get into tech and you're already in tech you can speak up for them You know refer them that sort of thing But basically Unfortunately sometimes when women go to interviews, they're not taking us seriously for whatever reason and Someone who is you know a little more well known in tech Can put in a good word for them and it can make a difference and I say strongly intentionally you can don't just say like I referred her you know Speak to her level because unfortunately people tend to something, you know certain people Will take what you say as truth and won't take it as truth when they say it So you kind of just help them on the way in and then they've got it from there There's a big you know grow Drupal movement basically When we submit a patch to Drupal at work, we're really careful because we know, you know, it'll go through a Tight, you know strong review process Put that much effort into helping other people get into tech put that much effort into the referral email that you send This is a email that I sent I guess the dates on it February 21st I Don't have a template for my emails when I'm referring people in the class I get to know the people and I write, you know something that accurately reflects their knowledge I find when I'm referring a guy I maybe have to say a little bit about his personality like oh, he's introvert extrovert, you know He knows PHP when I'm referring a woman I tend to have to really explicitly lay it out to kind of cancel out the assumptions that the employer often has so like with this one Basically my emails for the guys who take the class tend to be much shorter But for this one, I'm referring someone named Lisa, you know, I it feels like overkill when I read it It feels like overkill But it just kind of tends to be necessary Lisa She does have a Degree. Oh, she actually just walked in hey Lisa Yeah, she has a degree in engineering, but she took some time off of work and You know, it can be hard for people to get back into tech so, you know with email I sent to To an employer I basically had to make sure to lay out what experience she had before that and what level I felt like she was at because employers tend to Kind of make assumptions in the wrong direction for female applicants and Lisa recently accepted a job offer Congratulations, Lisa So I feel like older people also have this bias Just to use a quick example my my dad works as an accountant with the federal government they're implementing a new system and It was assumed that he would need a few months extra to learn and Even though he had gotten it and it wasn't as Difficult as he had thought he was working at the standard level. They were still trying to Not get him out but wanting him to retire a little sooner so that they can bring in some young blood which is how they exactly put it and Do it crank it out a little bit faster so Assuming that they can't learn the tech that they would need extra time for it or that they don't even want to learn it You can't teach an old dog new tricks things like that are things that just are dangerous assumptions because they not only have the incredible experience that can only help but Most problems that they've dealt with before have been solved so Using that knowledge to pass it along is only going to Further every young developer every mid developer even older people who don't Have the resources to learn as quickly All right. Yeah, we actually had a student Take the class the semester before last Her name is Luanne. Hi Luanne if you're watching this She was near retirement and she's not the only person who takes the class when they're about to retire actually have had a handful and basically She's never programmed before she's she's has some some experience some technical experience, but she hasn't used Drupal before and She took the class. She was one of the top performers and now that she Graduated and she retired. She is actually going to be working With a cool nonprofit. She's basically volunteering on Non-profit Drupal sites. There's one in particular. I'm gonna give it a shout out because I forgot to put it in the presentation Hope one source. It's a Drupal based nonprofit in the DC area where they Basically make resources easier to locate for homeless people so she's you know, she's a Joining the join the class joining the Drupal community After retiring and she's going to be doing some good with it So So Racial bias that is something that I have heard and I've seen and it Is incredibly inaccurate but a black person early in their career usually has to prove that their personality isn't the preconceived personality that would be of any black person and that is such a shame because people of any kind of ethnicity of any kind of level can provide valuable information and experience and knowledge to To be what corporate wants you to be would be someone well-spoken and charming all the time Which is fine. I mean if you're going to be like the face of a company it Would make sense, but to have someone in the tech world or any field Want to be able to extend their knowledge and learn new things and teach new things that is obviously inaccurate And I've seen this a lot again the classes With some of the black students who take the class I sometimes will go with them to the interview and do an in-person introduction because I've seen on occasion Basically some of them will have you know solid technical knowledge and You know bias creeps in from the interviewer and they just don't give them a fair chance Basically, I've seen people who You know people of every ethnicity and programming who are introverted just quiet, etc But I've seen that be taken In a negative light for black students basically they'll they'll go in and be Quiet, you know not speak up, you know not sell themselves that well And it's almost like the interviewer assumes like something's up, you know Whereas if you have you know someone else Who's quiet the interviewer tends to assume well, they're just a nerd You know they they just like they have that nerdy personality where they're quiet And you know not great socially, but I it's not taken the same way so yeah, I I again Try to extend the privilege sort of thing by trying to you know Let them you kind of try to paint a picture and it really sucks that you know That's necessary at all like I shouldn't have to and you know it feels it feels wrong to say it because it's like that's not something I should have to do but Nonetheless until we get you know more diverse people in higher positions it's kind of necessary to You know to speak up for them And I hear this a lot I hear I've heard this from CEOs this doesn't apply to me. I don't see a color Yeah Great, I'm glad you don't see a color. That's it. That's a start but the thing is Objectivity has sailed at this point. There are people who genuinely will just You know see people of different races and be like well, I'm judging you all exactly the same, you know It's a technical test. There's there's no bias into it But I've but basically if you're the only person who doesn't see color It's still not totally a fair situation for the person Coming to the interview, you know, they're dealing with a bunch of other people who do have biases You know, I'm giving the benefit of the doubt to the people who say I don't see color. I'm not saying you You have biases that affect this but Yeah, if you want to Play that game other people do have biases that affect that So in some cases it's you know neutral isn't equal so you'll have to To have a to really find out does this person have the aptitude to be a programmer Like could they make it in this field rather than just giving them a PHP test? And I'm not saying this is easier to do For it to be fair. It's more like You know, you find out how much exposure have they had to it Maybe you put them on a trial where you give them, you know education training something like that Basically and then you kind of test them after that after they've had a chance to sit with the material So could in being in an environment that they may have not had the opportunity to be in before Because I have had people it's something I've really been torn about in my class like do I accept everybody or do I only accept people who pass some sort of minimum knowledge test and I've gone with accept everybody because there are always situations where where someone will Not know anything related to programming at the beginning of the class and that person shines at the end and joins the career, you know the downside to that is You know, sometimes you'll have people take the class and if they really aren't cut out for programming And that's kind of where we have the what I talked about earlier. If you drop out, it's prorated. There's no penalty that's kind of the balance we strike and like I said, you know Depending on how things are going with the business. We we have refunded the full tuition on multiple occasions where You know, we're three weeks into class and someone's like, I just don't get it, you know, you know, I'm not picking it up This I'd like to do this slide so This is a picture of our alumni at Drupal Govcon 2017, you know, not a planned picture. They all just happened to be there. I was posting an ad on Facebook for our class and I used that picture and You know, like I said, everybody has biases that you can be aware of other people's biases as well But you have to stop and think is this based in logic or is it just, you know, some bias that I need to overcome? So, you know, the truth is when I was posting this picture I was like, you know, there might be people who basically are racist who see this picture and might think I don't want to take that class And I was like, that's more reason I should use this picture So because, you know, on that one hand, that's thinking about the people who may be racist and look at it badly But what about the other people, you know, what about the, you know Diverse people in the picture That just means other companies are thinking this too and those people are not seeing themselves in these ads So I posted it. I figured, you know, I'm being silly So I just posted it and I got a bunch of racist comments. I got a bunch of comments that were like, looks like it's all black These are quotes, you know, looks like it's all blacks and Muslims. I wouldn't go there. Be careful who you give your money to It's a Islamist organization. All this crazy stuff. I don't even know if Islamist is really a word But that's what it said So my concerns were realized I first deleted comments, but they kept coming. So I Basically replied and that actually ended up stopping them Looks like it's all blacks and Muslims. I wouldn't go there and I replied, well, you're not welcome So, you know You just stopped talking But, you know, just by posting that ad, you know, if you don't see color People who do see color create a really crappy environment and others have to deal with it before they get to you So that's why we have to put efforts into Reaching out and making it more welcoming because it's not neutral like neutral is not equal So a few more Examples of bias would be family life assuming that anyone with a family with children Even just close friends that need your help They would want to work from home more even though it wasn't needed or Leave early and they push their tasks to someone else Delegating like everything that was complicated, which I've seen a few times in previous jobs and having having that kind of situation at home and working full-time is very It's hard to find that right balance. So Realizing that it's not just an excuse and to find to help people find that balance or To work around with them would be ideal Another one disability someone with having a Visible physical any kind of disability in this field or any field It's also something that would need Need to be overlooked since When I first I'm just gonna tell this really quick when I first started A tech position there was someone in our office that was completely confined to a wheelchair and Couldn't move Couldn't move anything below I guess his hands and he was still able to to type and he People looked at him weird and I felt really bad and I would try to to connect with him And he was a full-stack developer He knew so much and I learned so much from him just by being there and just by Interacting with him more than everyone else did so I was really grateful for that Single employees I dealt with this also. I'm hitting all of these points just by that one job Assuming that people who are Available to work who don't have families don't have something going on at home are able to be online At all hours of the day and night I've had employers tell me that because I Don't have a family because I didn't have kids at home or anything like that I could attend every event that week and show myself off because I was a pretty girl who Would only benefit from having them see me That was yeah Somebody needs a punch now So whose job is it to fix this you can see the quote. I'm starting with the man in the mirror I also love that movie So the thing is nothing is too small Actually So small things can make an impact I actually just learned this yesterday that Went after I had taken the debug Academy class I went back to assist in a get training that was open to the public and During that time I mentioned how how it had changed my life how I became a Drupal developer and the class worked because of that a student that had attended just the get training decided to take the class and was Recently hired as a Drupal developer. I Didn't know at that time and I wish I did actually because I would have pushed him more But it was it made me feel really good because just by Raising awareness he was able to join an amazing community and Have a bomb job So nothing's too small Reaching that was also reaching beyond my circle since I hadn't planned on helping with that I just kind of came last minute and wanted to meet other developers meet someone who just needed my help and because of that I've continued to do it and I've Volunteered I've gone to events Booz Allen Hamilton, especially I've gone to a few events there and Just extending my circle and making sure that anyone who feels under represented or Needs any kind of support is Something that I can help with oh which goes into the next one participating in the free training events I had actually tried to get that first company to Get involved with the hour of code that teaches kids how to code During a week in December. I think and they refused so that kind of tells you what kind of company they were All right, let's see Yeah, one of the bullets basically like she was saying yeah, she encouraged her employers to participate in a free training that one didn't pan out but It's you know, that's what we need to do. Just like Make others who aren't thinking about it aware some of them will say yes And that might you know impact one or two people at the end of the day You might get a new core contributor, you know, they can go Go through the whole process and eventually There's a lot of talent out there basically that doesn't know they're talented So speaking about reaching out beyond our circles Okay, so I you know, I follow a lot of people outside of my circle on Twitter I really just like I'm like this isn't someone I would talk to follow, you know because I I want to bring more people in and So this is someone I had never met before she tweeted basically that she was going to become a great developer and that she was going to be an inspiration for black girls I Thought that was really cool so, you know, I followed her and she She tweeted on other occasions things that basically Gave away that She wasn't You know that well off financially But she still had an awesome attitude and I reach out to her We had the Drupal con the react JS class here on Monday. It was sold out for $450 a person When I tell that to like employers here, they're like, okay, that's reasonable, but if you talk to people who you know, I Don't know, you know are not developers or are not at this type of company. That's a lot of money But I invited her to it and she enthusiastically accepted But she didn't show up so we had that training she didn't show up You know, I was like, all right, whatever, you know, I tried I invited her Four days later or so I Was like, you know, I'm giving a talk on privilege and on you know, not being lazy about it Let me message her and see why she didn't show up for you know, truthfully I didn't ask why she didn't show up because it's not my business, but See if she had a reason, you know, I don't need to know what the reason is So I I reached out to her, you know, I said, oh, you know, it's cool that you didn't show up Did you not want to you know, did something come up? And she was really surprised I reached out, but she basically said, you know, something came up She couldn't make it and she was really embarrassed So she didn't reach out because of that So I told her, you know, it comes to the next one. So she came to the next one and You know, I met her she met Drupal After the class, she you know put out this tweet It was a class on react.js. She hadn't heard of Drupal. So I just told her come to the react class But the last sentence of that she was excited about Drupal and you know, feel free to follow her but basically She's in a community that you know, I'm not going to run out run into in in my circle of friends. She's on a slack channel that is basically a Channel for black people interested in tech in DC You know, so she has now heard of Drupal and she goes back there. She's telling them all about Drupal If she ends up Getting into Drupal. I think she would be awesome to have because every day she's tweeting about something new She's building and it's all in her spare time, etc You know, so it's it's very possible that eventually she'll be a core contributor. She seems like that port personality type But just by reaching out a little it didn't cost me anything to have another person in the room, you know So just by reaching out a little It could potentially have a big impact on Drupal and more importantly on her I'm gonna need to speed this up a little bit So what does better look like as far as Drupal goes having been a beginner pretty recently in the past three years or so the documentation for that was a little hard to follow for me and thankfully the Initiative seems to be happening soon and things are getting clear getting explained they're Becoming easier for people to actually use it and not have to go through a long list of 650 comments trying to go through that issue queue Yeah Okay package Contrib composer dependencies and as a file like core does Yeah, yeah, so I'll just mention this one because it isn't an idea I had but basically Composer really is a barrier to entry for For many it's mentioned on the next slide as well, but I'll just speak to that now basically a lot of my students used to You know work a lot of hours and they would work on the classwork on Metro a Lot of them wouldn't have internet access On and on Metro and they would have weak internet access at home or especially with Metro You know literally you pop out of a tunnel you you know you have internet for a few minutes and then you pop back in Composer being required. I don't want to say required because they say it's not required, but I'm using composer Pretty much kills working in Metro and that has been you know that has had a real impact on people Also with weak internet connections and that sort of thing so one thing I was considering is Core you know when you download core in a certain way it comes without the vendor directory without all the files You run composer install you get them But if you download core from the zip file it comes packaged with the vendor directory and that's how that's why they say you Don't need a composer. I think they should do that for contrib modules to Package the contrib modules vendor directory So that people who download the zip file don't need to then use composer at all Maybe you would throw in another set of instructions, you know drag the vendor directory to this folder or something like that and You know if a rebuttal were on the technical side Those technical the technical issues that apply to the suggestion I just made also apply to downloading modules using drush in Drupal 7, but that was good enough for a lot of people So I recommend throwing, you know, at least another link that says can't use composer Here's a full download link for the module and auto-populating documentation We we actually ran something called a barrier-free sprint. I'm gonna try to not talk too long about this but I Okay, so What we do for our classes is we write documentation for our projects And then this is a task on an actual web on an actual project on Drupal dot org We ran what's called a barrier-free sprint and basically it's a sprint where you can come in Maybe you haven't used Drupal before But you can actually set up a Drupal site and contribute something back Without any training on it. So we do that using this website. We made The issues up here, but scroll down how to install the Drupal site One-time setup it has composer instructions. If those don't work. It has git instructions Alternative if you're advanced you can do it that way How to start a new task, you know, you do more than one task You only go to these instructions and how to submit a completed task We are not writing these instructions on every issue We're writing them on the project and they're auto populating at the bottom of every issue I think Drupal dot org should have that I think it should have issues and then at a bare minimum auto-populated quick links for this how you install Drupal core This is how you install the module Using a module like the token where you can swap out text automatically You can write instructions for installing a module once put a token for the module name and have it auto populate throughout the site So basically we don't need to write the documentation for every module, but we could populate it so put in a little technical work and We can really make this Much easier make contributing and using Drupal much easier And it's like it stopped presenting when I left You So this is one of our students hopefully the audio works in this room Basically, you can just talk a little bit about, you know, why you made the changes the type of changes you made What your experience was like that sort of thing There's nothing out there identified to help, you know Identified to the community in regards to how you could use the path auto function in your URL so with the documentation that I created with me having a little background and I'm Test writing I actually created this document where I went step by step and added screenshots to the actual documentation I like to submit Laying out the path from start to finish in regards to how to use the path auto function It actually has on different ways if you've already have content created There's a path in there that identifies what you would need to do if you already have content identified that you want to go back after the fact and identify The correct path on their use of the path auto function that's available for you now Okay Alright, so that was Kevin. He's awesome. He also just accepted a job recently he He's still a current student and he wrote much better documentation for the path auto module than what we have out there So instead of I feel like instead of dividing devoting so many resources to maybe rewriting documentation you could devote resources to Getting people trained and maybe have them write documentation on their way in I'm gonna go through these really quickly so that we can get That is Kevin Very all right, sorry about that. We're just about out of time so I want to Get through those last ones pretty quickly All right. Okay. Yeah, so this is Kevin Um Very nice guy Yeah, he hadn't really used Drupal before attended a free get training and now he's a Drupal developer That's who had learned that I had become one and went to become one himself and this Drupal con three sessions are presented by people who took our classes. I didn't even know two of them were applying But basically They're all female, you know, so this is all from one small program and it's three speakers at Drupal con You know, so it's it doesn't take some insurmountable budget to You know increase the diversity in the community You just have to do it So the next three are the three speakers If you hit right on the arrow, I'll go to the next slide Okay, Kirsten you probably know her because she's amazing she had actually Already had development experience Yeah, oh we're going that fast No, no, it's fine Amani she had Become a she majored in conflict analysis and resolution and became a Drupal Developer with beaconfire red She's also a speaker That was this morning I Had never written the line of code and took the class. I became a Drupal developer and now work with booze Allen Hamilton Just gonna we've got just two more that we're showing You know, this is what a Drupal developer looks like he's like one of the nicest people I know very smart and I Think it's pioneering evolution that hired him shout out to them great company Who's you know willing to give people without development and experience a chance? But he's going to do very well in his career We've got Ali he's Ali we had taken the D book class together and he actually Works on my team now. He had been an engineering major. I think environmental science yeah, and Now works in on my team in my office every single day Yeah, that's about it Yeah, so we hope you enjoyed the session There's my Twitter, there's Farah's Twitter in our emails If you want to follow debug Academy You know spread the word we work really hard to increase the diversity in The Drupal community. I've been told it's a great community within the community But yeah, we're really you know Proud of the three new speakers. I think they're two of them are first-time attendees at Drupal con But yeah Any questions If there are let us know I didn't expect questions in this one. We didn't want to answer them anymore. Yeah All right, thank you all for coming Like how long do I have to smile