It not enough to speak about the community at large. At least not in this context when there are clearly many SPECIFIC orgs and reps who’ve done a good bit of heavy lifting around diversity in tech way back when Codeorg didn’t focus on diversity. At all.
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I decided to give up my tech career, my salary, savings, and used every bit of access and connections I had to promote CS. My ask was "promote computer science, not
@codeorg" which is why you never see bill gates or celebs etc saying our name, they say coding or CS
so there’s that...
This raised a tide which lifted all boats, including @codeorg's. It built the brand for #HourOfCode (which is a much bigger name globally than @codeorg). That then helped us get funding. Our scale came before the funding.
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Your more important point is correct that all that was uniquely possible because of the career I had built beforehand. I regularly encourage other people in tech to give up their salary+career and instead use what they have for social impact. Make the world a better place.
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Hmmmm definitely debatable Hadi. But ok.
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