#code2040

[hollyevolving]

Oh god they are so high energy the pacing is so snappy I LOVE it. I'm from NJ and I have ADHD and everything feels better when people talk fast.

But it does mean that sometimes I have to try 3 or 4 times to get the right screen shot.

[afrotumble]

How Code2040 is breaking away from Big Tech’s boom and bust DEI cycle

https://www.fastcompany.com/90981847/racial-equity-not-trend-breaking-away-big-techs-boom-bust-dei-cycle

[everythingshaquana]

Trials & Triumphs Of A Creative Black Business Woman

It has been a long while, since our last article in the GC Inc. Newsletter. Without much ado, we’re back!!  The latest and greatest in GC Inc. news is our developments toward investment and building new clientele. Most recently, Gardner Creative Inc. applied to be one the future three residents of Google’s Entrepreneur’s Code2040 Program. Serving as an EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence) at one of…

[demartinidesigns]

New map on Roll20!

This map was voted on by my patrons for our first Patreon anniversary, and is not archived on Patreon, but is now available for purchase on Roll20.

Send your explorers through the twists and turns of this hideout, with three levels of 40x30 unit maps. The maps also come with guides for GMs to easily discern where levels connect and give players descriptive hints of passages they may try to use.

| Pirate Cove Hideout Battlemap on Roll20 |

For the entire month of December, 50% of my Marketplace sales are being donated to Code2040, a nonprofit dedicated to dismantling the structural barriers that prevent the full participation and leadership of Black and Latinx technologists in the innovation economy. Roll20 is also matching all donations up to $50k!

| DeMartini Designs on Roll20 |

Help pick new map topics and receive early Roll20 and printable files over on Patron.

| patreon.com/demartinidesigns |

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It’s Our Favorite Month Again – Rollvember!

Ah yes, Rollvember. That magical thirteenth month of the year between the beginning and end of December when you eat leftovers and spend time with friends. It is definitely not something we made up as an excuse to hang out and play games on stream, raising money for Code2040. Whether you’ve been celebrating Rollvember for as long as you can remember or this is your first time, you’re in for a treat. Quite a few of them in fact.

From December 17 and December 28, look forward to:

Lots of TTRPG one-shots with amazing casts.

Secret special guests!

Board games on the virtual tabletop.

Roll20 staff streams.

Prizes and giveaways.

Lots of ways you’ll be able to influence the games and raise money for a worthy cause.

Save the dates and get your comfiest pants ready for 12 days of hanging out on Twitch with Roll20.

And you can help us support Code2040 now! As a tech company, we are striving towards a more equitable industry and one of the ways we’re doing that is with matching donations to Code2040, “a nonprofit activating, connecting and mobilizing the largest racial equity community in tech to dismantle the structural barriers that prevent the full participation and leadership of Black and Latinx technologists in the innovation economy.”

[satanicstage]

星空の下の約束 「縱使身處於黑暗之中，邪惡圍繞，你的身後還有我。」 Promise under the stars Even if you are in darkness and surrounded by evil, there is still me behind you. Difference and Big Size:  https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/86628920

[z43dyn-inzero-g]

A drawing I made during @evanandkatelyn 's charity stream benefitting @code2040 in support of the #blacklivesmatter movement and the black community. Its their cat Joob as Link from Zelda! Had a lot of fun drawing this and am really proud :) You can find more info about Code2040 on their website at code2040.org and if you would like to donate, you can do that at tiltify.com/@evanandkatelyn/kevins-for-equality :))

[bosshogg6]

#WomenCrushingWednesday Laura Weidman Powers is the co-founder and CEO of @Code2040, a nonprofit organization that creates pathways to educational, professional, and entrepreneurial success in technology for underrepresented minorities with a specific focus on Blacks and Latinxs. #code2040 aims to close the achievement, skills, and wealth gaps in the United States. In 2013, just one in 14 tech employees in Silicon Valley were black or Latino. In its first year, Code2040 placed 5 fellows into paid internships at Silicon Valley companies #blackdollars #hustle #entrepreneur #business #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #success #motivation #inspiration #startuplife #smallbusiness #GrowOrDie #EvolveOrEvaporate #successful #mindset #growth #GrowthMindset #LovGrowth #Tech #Empowerment #Equity

[thefederalistfreestyle]

Win A Trip To Hamilton San Francisco’s Opening Night With The Parents of Lin-Manuel Miranda [x]:

Hi everyone!

Did you miss me?! Well I’m back on Prizeo and this time I’m here with my parents. We’re giving you a chance to win a trip for two to opening night of Hamilton in San Francisco on March 23rd. Since I’m in London, I can’t make it. But you’ll be going with my mom and dad—Luz and Luis! They’re the best and they’re going to make sure you have an incredible time.

It is more important than ever that for-profit and civil society are stepping up to build inclusive, safe spaces where minorities can work and thrive. By donating as little as $10 to be entered to win, your donations will also help support Code2040 and the Latino Community Foundation, two amazing organizations that are helping build the leaders of the future. Please check out their sites to learn more about the incredible work they’re doing.

And if you donate more, you’ll be getting extra entries (every $10 is 100 entries), helping the work being done by Code2040 and LCF even more, and you’ll get rewards! Check ’em out—new t-shirts, signed items, and our brand spankin’ new tank top.

Whoever wins, we’ll fly you and a guest to San Francisco for opening night and we’ll put you up in a hotel. Plus you’ll be going to the show as my parents’ guests! I can’t wait to see who wins and hear how it goes!

I am thrilled that we're supporting the work of Code2040 and LCF—and that you get the chance to experience the San Francisco Hamilton opening night! Thank you again for continuing to team up with me and supporting the work of so many incredible causes.

Siempre, Lin-Manuel

[hollyevolving]

Finished one and making a start on another before I need to crash.

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How Code2040 is breaking away from Big Tech’s boom and bust DEI cycle

https://www.fastcompany.com/90981847/racial-equity-not-trend-breaking-away-big-techs-boom-bust-dei-cycle

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Three more days to donate and enter to win.  Contest ends 03/08/2017 at 15:59:00 PST

[96thdayofrage]

ADOS are deliberately and purposefully locked out!

The US says Oracle is encouraging Indians to hire other Indians—and it’s killing diversity

Indians have quite the presence in tech. Two of the industry’s most powerful executives—Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella—are of Indian origin, as are Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen and Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri. In the startup world, $2 billion grocery-delivery platform Instacart was founded by Indian-born Apoorva Mehta.

The trend extends beyond C-suites: Indians were the recipients of the highest number (pdf) of US H-1B employment visas in 2013 and 2014, and in 2015 captured 72% of H-1B visas issued. According to a 2015 National Science Foundation report, Indians account for nearly 1 million of America’s scientists and engineers.

Nepotism also runs strong in India.  Nearly 85% of the country’s businesses are family-run, and Bollywood is dominated by just a few families. Even job-seekers with impressive resumes have to fall back on personal connections to find work.

Those dynamics are now playing out at Oracle, the $160 billion California-based software giant run by Larry Ellison. Earlier this week, the US Department of Labor (DOL) sued (pdf) Oracle for wage violations and hiring bias, alleging that the company displayed “hiring discrimination against qualified White, Hispanic, and African-American applicants in favor of Asian applicants, particularly Asian Indians.”

The DOL says the discrimination stemmed from biased hiring strategies like “targeted recruitment, and referral bonuses that encouraged its heavily Asian workforce to recruit other Asians and its reputation for favoring Asians.”

(Ironically, the suit also accuses Oracle of paying white men more than their non-white counterparts.)

The company denies the charges. ”Oracle values diversity and inclusion, and is a responsible equal opportunity and affirmative action employer,” says spokesperson Deborah Hellinger. “Our hiring and pay decisions are non-discriminatory and made based on legitimate business factors including experience and merit.” In other words, if Oracle has a disproportionate number of Indian employees—the company doesn’t disclose that breakdown—then it’s because Indians are consistently its best candidates.

There’s some research to support that. A 2007 study (pdf) by Southern New Hampshire University found that Indian leaders tend to be far more humble than their US counterparts, and also focus on long-term growth over short-term results. Having themselves overcome prejudice, many successful Indians also set up networking groups to mentor young talent.

But it’s also easy for the so-called “halo effect” to creep into hiring decisions. ”If everyone on your homogenous team has similar upbringings, then the likelihood of choosing someone with credentials, like universities or GPA, is higher,” explains Vivek Ravisankar, co-founder and CEO of recruiting platform HackerRank. ”Recruiters look for talent in the same places—MIT/Stanford—leading to bidding wars for pedigreed candidates and the illusion of a skills shortage.”

Skills-based hiring sites like HackerRank and Codefights, which hide applicants’ ethnicity and gender from those reviewing their applications, are one answer to bias in technical recruitment. But without a broader change in mindset, it will remain easy for not just Oracle but any company to conflate staff diversity with staff referrals from diverse employees.

“The concept of ‘cultural fit’…has been taken as the holy grail for hiring in many tech companies,” says Karla Monterroso, vice president of programs at non-profit CODE2040, which supports black and Latino professionals. “[But it’s] often applied incorrectly to filter for potential hires who look or act like the person doing the interviewing.”

[everythingshaquana]

Trials & Triumphs Of A Creative Black Business Woman

It has been a long while, since our last article in the GC Inc. Newsletter. Without much ado, we’re back!!  The latest and greatest in GC Inc. news is our developments toward investment and building new clientele. Most recently, Gardner Creative Inc. applied to be one the future three residents of Google’s Entrepreneur’s Code2040 Program. Serving as an EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence) at one of…

[demartinidesigns]

New maps on Roll20! 

A midtown bridge for stealthing or city brawls, with day, evening, fog, and night variants, and a General Fields Pack of three different fields, each in day, fog and night, for the price of one map. Sometimes a random encounter needs some non-descript grass.

For the entire month of December, 50% of my Marketplace sales are being donated to Code2040, a nonprofit dedicated to dismantling the structural barriers that prevent the full participation and leadership of Black and Latinx technologists in the innovation economy. Roll20 is also matching all donations up to $50k!

| DeMartini Designs on Roll20 |

Help pick new map topics and receive early Roll20 and printable files over on Patron.

| patreon.com/demartinidesigns |

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June 2020 Roundtable Recap

Did you miss the Community Roundtable on June 18? We had a special guest from Code2040! Danielle Owens, the VP of Programs, gave us some of her time to discuss the work Code2040 is doing to address the systemic barriers in tech for Black and Latinx people.

Topics Included:

Code2040’s work and the Roll20 Tiltify campaign with matching donations

Burn Bryte is almost here!

Dynamic Lighting Demo: updates for collisions, directional lighting, and Night Vision coming soon.

Conversations about folders, questions on server stability, and lots of answers about Marketplace products.

You can watch the full video over on YouTube.

As a reminder, we’re matching donations to Code2040, “a nonprofit activating, connecting and mobilizing the largest racial equity community in tech to dismantle the structural barriers that prevent the full participation and leadership of Black and Latinx technologists in the innovation economy.” Learn more and donate through our Tiltify campaign here: http://roll20.io/Tiltify-Code2040