@ManishEarth I'll start: I'm mostly an autodidact; but I did benefit from being in an engineering college (I'm a physics student)
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@ManishEarth I was introduced by my father and then mostly used books and tinkering to learn. And mistakes. Lots of them.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@ManishEarth In college I was able to be a part of an awesome community, and I got ways of amplifying my open source participation.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@ManishEarth Key points in this "pipeline": My father, the Internet, college programming club, open source.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@ManishEarth Only the third (i.e. majoring in STEM) Is ever talked about wrt "pipeline problems". And I'll admit it is a problem.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@ManishEarth My college, for example, has a horrendous gender ratio. It's known for it. There is a class of jokes about it.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@ManishEarth However, the internet and open source were far more impactful points for me. I'm not from an underrepresented group, so1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@ManishEarth I don't know how badly those factors can deter the folks who are from these groups.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@ManishEarth But there's no end of experiences easily found on the internet which point to major issues in internet/open source communities.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@ManishEarth so can we stop blaming the "pipeline" when we're often a part of it? College isn't the only "pipeline"2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@ManishEarth I hope we can all see what we can do to help all parts of the pipeline, not see the pipeline as "other people" :-/
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