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A few comments. I didn't say I didn't talk about specific orgs. I said I don't remember. My interview was over 9 months ago

But I agree with you, it costs me absolutely nothing to highlight specific orgs, and only lifts everybody up. It is stronger to do that than to just highlight the "community." I tried doing that in the blog post at top of this tweet thread, and will aim to do even more.

Our mission hasn't changed since our first year 2013. We launched in 2013, and even the very first #HourOfCode we focused on and celebrated diversity of participation. Even my planning docs before my first hire referenced broadening participation by underrep groups.

Here is the @codeorg about page in 2013, our 1st year, before the first #HourofCode, same mission as today "increasing participation by women and underrepresented students of color." https://web.archive.org/web/20131021042214/http://code.org/about …

Glad to see this was actually a “documented” goal however it certainly wasn’t a primary focus or highlight of your work initially because you all didn’t know how. Thus the outreach to orgs like mine and other educators of color. This happened.

We've always had a focus on diversity, our mission honestly hasn't changed. Maybe you noticed it later. And I'm also sure we reached out to anybody who had more experience for help. I personally spoke to at least 100 experts in CS and diversity in 2011-2013 to learn.

I'm writing this because I can understand that if you truly felt we changed mission to focus on diversity to "follow the money," you might resent that about us. What I'm sure has evolved is our messaging around it, as we've learned over time.