llvm dev - Sep 2019 - Compassionate Coding Speaker at the WiCT Workshop - Register today!

The LLVM Foundation is excited to announce our guest speaker at the Women in
Compilers and Tools Workshop
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-llvm-foundations-women-in-compilers-and-tools-workshop-tickets-64471042624>
is April Wensel, from Compassionate Coding
<https://compassionatecoding.com/>.

April will be presenting her talk, Contributing with Compassion. 

Developer communities help us accomplish much more together than we can do on
our own. Our communities can also support our personal and professional growth
while satisfying a universal human need for belonging.

However, many of our communities have become exclusionary clubs characterized by
unnecessary hostility and unfair barriers to participation. As a result, many of
us are stressed out, and our projects are missing out on valuable contributions
from people who feel alienated by the existing culture.

Thankfully, we can address this problem with the liberal application of
Compassionate Coding techniques. Communities embracing this approach welcome
newcomers, support the well-being of existing members, and contribute to
positive change in society overall.

You’ll leave this talk equipped with practical tools for contributing compassion
to your communities in order to create supportive environments where happier
developers are writing higher quality code.


April Wensel is the founder of Compassionate Coding, a conscious business that’s
bringing emotional intelligence and ethics to the tech industry through training
and community outreach. She has spent the past decade in software engineering
and technical leadership roles at various startups in Silicon Valley. She also
teaches coding and mentors technologists around the world. Away from the
keyboard, she enjoys picking fruit, running ultramarathons, and baking tasty
vegan treats.

Registration
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-llvm-foundations-women-in-compilers-and-tools-workshop-tickets-64471042624>
is open for the Women in Compilers and Tools Workshop. This event is open to ALL
who are interested in increasing diversity and inclusion within the LLVM
community and the field of compilers and tools. We especially hope that those
who are active code reviewers in the community, will attend this talk to help
guide new reviewers and create review guidelines to maintain a positive and
inclusive community for all contributors. You do not need to attend the LLVM
Developers’ Meeting to attend this workshop.


Thanks,
Tanya Lattner
President, LLVM Foundation

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In case there is any confusion about who can attend this event, anyone who is
interested in increasing diversity and inclusion within the LLVM community and
other compiler communities is encouraged to attend. It is not a women’s only
event. The topic is also not just related to diversity and inclusion, but just
general good practices to continue making LLVM a great open source community. I
would love to see a large number of active developers who are doing code reviews
attend this event as I think it might be useful.

Register soon, so we can have accurate numbers for our catering. Thanks!

Please let me know if you have any questions.

-Tanya
> On Sep 19, 2019, at 12:54 PM, Tanya Lattner <tanyalattner at
llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> The LLVM Foundation is excited to announce our guest speaker at the Women
in Compilers and Tools Workshop
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-llvm-foundations-women-in-compilers-and-tools-workshop-tickets-64471042624>
is April Wensel, from Compassionate Coding
<https://compassionatecoding.com/>.
> 
> April will be presenting her talk, Contributing with Compassion. 
> 
> Developer communities help us accomplish much more together than we can do
on our own. Our communities can also support our personal and professional
growth while satisfying a universal human need for belonging.
> 
> However, many of our communities have become exclusionary clubs
characterized by unnecessary hostility and unfair barriers to participation. As
a result, many of us are stressed out, and our projects are missing out on
valuable contributions from people who feel alienated by the existing culture.
> 
> Thankfully, we can address this problem with the liberal application of
Compassionate Coding techniques. Communities embracing this approach welcome
newcomers, support the well-being of existing members, and contribute to
positive change in society overall.
> 
> You’ll leave this talk equipped with practical tools for contributing
compassion to your communities in order to create supportive environments where
happier developers are writing higher quality code.
> 
> 
> April Wensel is the founder of Compassionate Coding, a conscious business
that’s bringing emotional intelligence and ethics to the tech industry through
training and community outreach. She has spent the past decade in software
engineering and technical leadership roles at various startups in Silicon
Valley. She also teaches coding and mentors technologists around the world. Away
from the keyboard, she enjoys picking fruit, running ultramarathons, and baking
tasty vegan treats.
> 
> Registration
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-llvm-foundations-women-in-compilers-and-tools-workshop-tickets-64471042624>
is open for the Women in Compilers and Tools Workshop. This event is open to ALL
who are interested in increasing diversity and inclusion within the LLVM
community and the field of compilers and tools. We especially hope that those
who are active code reviewers in the community, will attend this talk to help
guide new reviewers and create review guidelines to maintain a positive and
inclusive community for all contributors. You do not need to attend the LLVM
Developers’ Meeting to attend this workshop.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Tanya Lattner
> President, LLVM Foundation
> 
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