Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Citations and Links for My WCUSA Keynote
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In a few hours, I'm giving the opening keynote address at Wiki Conference USA. Here are some links and citations for sources I'll be referring to.
- Engineering learning styles and educational psychology research by Mel Chua.
- My PyCon 2014 poster session (see the poster "Be A Better Mentor: What Hacker School Taught Me About Community Mentoring").
- Valerie Aurora's "Diversity initiatives that worked in other open communities" session from the 2013 Wikimedia Diversity Conference. See also her slides and the Ada Initiative blog post summarizing the talk.
- Mary Gardiner's opening keynote at Wikimania two years ago. In "Fostering diversity – not a boring chore, a critical opportunity", she gave examples of how other movements increased diversity and gained from it, and told the audience what to do to improve diversity within Wikimedia projects.
- The "Generation Wikipedia" project that Keilana and Ocaasi proposed ran into some difficulties and couldn't get started but seemed really promising on this front.
- "Bringing More Women to Free Software: What's Working for Us", Karen Sandler's presentation Friday afternoon at Wiki Conference USA.
- The Hacker School manual including the four social rules.
- "How It Works" (xkcd #385).
- How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching, by Susan A. Ambrose, Michael W. Bridges, Michele DiPietro. Jossey-Bass, 2010.
- Women's Ways Of Knowing: The Development Of Self, Voice, And Mind by Mary Field Belenky, Blythe Mcvicker Clinchy, Nancy Rule Goldberger, and Jill Mattuck Tarule. Basic Books, 1997 (10th Anniversary edition).
- "It's not 'them' — it's us!" by Betsy Leondar-Wright.
- John Scalzi's formulation that some people's articulation of liberty is "I must be allowed to be a dick in every possible circumstance."
I'll link to video, transcript, and so on after they're up.
Edited 31 May to add: I borrowed my introductory acknowledgment of place from N.K. Jemisin and very slightly modified it.
Edited 5 June to add: The transcript and an audio recording are now up - thank you to Jeremy Baron for helping me get the audio. I paid Katherine Nehring for the transcription and I recommend her to you as well.
Retroactive talk title: "Hospitality, Jerks, and What I Learned".
Edited again on June 5th to add: Now the video is up!
