In this episode we discuss standards: coding standards, team/community standards, personal standards.

Join us as we talk all this and more, including plans for our upcoming hackathon, 🎵 The CanCon Umbrackathon 🎵, on Friday 16th and Saturday 17th October.

Next episode will be: Pivot

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Links:
24 days in Umbraco sign up form: https://24days.in/umbraco-cms/write-for-us/
Our Code of Conduct: https://candidcontributions.com/CandidContributions-CodeOfConduct.pdf
The Umbraco Code of Conduct: https://our.umbraco.com/code-of-conduct

There are many ways to contribute to open source, do non code contributions get enough credit? What are people's motivations for participating in Hacktoberfest? Does the initiative actually have a negative impact? What can you get back from contributing, and where do we think our own contributions have most value?

Join us as we talk all this and more, including plans for our upcoming hackathon, 🎵 The CanCon Umbrackathon 🎵, on Friday 16th and Saturday 17th October.

Thank you and RIP Ruth Bader Ginsberg

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Links:
* Ruth Bader Ginsberg: The Guardian's obituary https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/19/ruth-bader-ginsburg-obituary
* The official Hacktoberfest website: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com
* Alice in Tech Land comic: https://aliceintechland.org/comics/breaking-programmer-stereotypes
* What's stopping you coding like this? Article responding to the tweet that sparked the conversation https://www.tomdalling.com/blog/random-stuff/whats-stopping-you-from-coding-like-this
* The CanCon Umbrackathon: https://candidcontributions.com/umbrackathon

We are back for a second series! Join Carole, Emma, Laura & Lotte for a chat on all things tech & open source.

This episode we discuss Intent and how it can impact users of technology and even politics.

Links:
* The Social Dilemma - https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81254224
* Happy Healthy Minds - https://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/happy-healthy-minds/

This is our end of series special where we recap on the *journey* we've been on (you know how much Em loves that word). We listen back to our favourite clips from the series including guest interviews and ideas we've shared.

We think back to what we lived about series 1 and what we look forward to in series 2.

We'll be back soon!

In this episode we discuss feedback: why it's important, how to give and get feedback productively.

If you have any feedback, comments or questions you can tweet us @candidcontribs, email [email protected] or join the Umbraco Community slack channel #candid-contributions

Links:
* Radical Candor: https://www.radicalcandor.com/
* Let it Go: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Let-Go-Extraordinary-Entrepreneur-Philanthropist/dp/0241395496#ace-4127440567

In this episode we discuss empathy, what it means and how we can learn to think of experiences of others in our techy day jobs and generally in the world.

If you have any feedback, comments or questions you can tweet us @candidcontribs, email [email protected] or join the Umbraco Community slack channel #candid-contributions

Links:
* https://compassionatecoding.com/
* https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2RvaW5naXRyaWdodC9mZWVkLnhtbA/episode/ZG9pbmdpdHJpZ2h0LnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2U1NWNkN2RiLTIyODEtNTU1YS04Yzk3LTQzNDcxZWFiNjliZg?ved=0CAQQ8qgGahcKEwj40tKOp83qAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
* https://www.kateheddleston.com/blog/how-our-engineering-environments-are-killing-diversity-introduction
* https://www.amazon.co.uk/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended/dp/B07T7L39TN/
* https://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Wish-Your-Parents-Children/dp/0241250994/
* https://code.likeagirl.io/the-myth-of-the-cool-tech-girl-7868fa63769b

In this episode we discuss bias: what it means, why we all have it, and some of the different types that there are, including unconscious bias and stereotype threat. It can effect datasets and then lead to (at best) unexpected and (at worst) disastrous results.

Would 'blind' pull requests be a good idea for dev teams, or an open source community such as Umbraco? Would anonymous contributions encourage more people, or reduce their motivation to contribute?

We all did our homework before recording by taking Harvard's "Implicit Association Test" and recommend you have a go yourself (link below).

If you have any feedback, comments or questions you can tweet us @candidcontribs, email [email protected] or join the Umbraco Community slack channel #candid-contributions

Links

Harvard's Implicit Association Test - https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/uk/
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow
Russell McClain's TEDx Talk on Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat and Higher Education - https://www.ted.com/talks/russell_mcclain_implicit_bias_stereotype_threat_and_higher_education
Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine by Derren Brown - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30142270-happy
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41104077-invisible-women
NY Times article on the importance of diverse teams - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/business/artificial-intelligence-bias-tech.html
Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias by Pragya Agarwal - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49678279-sway
Dr Denae Ford's research on pull request reviews - https://blog.denaeford.me/2019/07/01/how-programmers-really-look-at-pull-requests/
Mozilla's Blind Review Experiment - https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/03/08/gender-bias-code-reviews/

This week we talk about what is happening in the world right now. There are a number of resources mentioned in this episode which are summarised below. If there is anything we are missing, please let us know!

- Nadiya Hussein on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBWjzNhjyWF/?igshid=1x21julnl4lsi
- Brene Brown with Ibram X. Kendi: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vdW5sb2NraW5nLXVz/episode/ODZiNjcyODYtNzQzMi0xMWVhLWI1N2ItNWI5YTcyMTQ1MDFh?ved=0CAkQzsICahcKEwiInMzHpIHqAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQBA&hl=en-GB
- Ibram X. Kendi, How to build an antiracist world: https://www.ted.com/talks/ibram_x_kendi_how_to_build_an_antiracist_world
- Alexis Ohanian, Reddit Cofounder steps down: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/alexis-ohanian-reddit-resign-cofounder-black-candidate-serena-williams-a9551896.html
- Ellen Pao, Reset: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34974754-reset
- Beyonce, Lemonade: https://www.beyonce.com/album/lemonade-visual-album/songs/


Additional resources for learning about anti-racism and donating to the Black Lives Matter movement:

- Ways and places to donate to support Black lives and communities of colour: https://nymag.com/strategist/article/where-to-donate-for-black-lives-matter.html
- Anti-racism resources: https://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/49420/1/a-running-list-of-anti-racism-resources-protest-police-brutality-george-floyd
- Scene on Radio podcast, Seeing White: https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/


Next episode will be: Bias

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This episode "adventure", where the discussion points where submitting via PR in a "choose your own adventure" style. In our first live recorded episode at CodePatch, the 2 day Umbraco community event, we are joined by a lovely audience who contribute to the conversation.

CodePatch was on May 29th & May 30th, more information here: https://candidcontributions.com/


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This episode we discuss "share", how we can share knowledge and the courage this can often take, particularly in open source contribution.

- GitHub "successors" - https://help.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/maintaining-ownership-continuity-of-your-user-accounts-repositories

- "Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlife" by David Eagleman - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4948826-sum

- Life in Code- Ellen Ullman - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Code-Personal-Technology-International/dp/0374534519

CodePatch will be May 29th & May 30th, more information here: https://candidcontributions.com/


Next episode will be: Patch


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