Episode 026: Codeland, Capitalism, and Creating Inclusive Spaces with Saron Yitbarek

Greater Than Code

• Episode: Episode 026: Codeland, Capitalism, and Creating Inclusive Spaces with Saron Yitbarek
• Website: Greater Than Code
• Feed URL: https://www.greaterthancode.com/feed/podcast
• Published: 2017-04-04 21:10

Panelists: Sam Livingston-Gray | Astrid Countee | Rein Henrichs Guest Starring: Saron Yitbarek: @saronyitbarek | bloggytoons.com | CodeNewbie | Codeland Conference Show Notes: 00:16 – Welcome to “Unrepentant Cyborgs” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:28 – Codeland Conference: April 21st & 22nd in New York City 02:02 – Making Conferences Accessible, Affordable, and Unintimidating for People 13:00 – Ticket Prices and Structure 15:01 – Creating an Immersive Experience and Community With and For People You Care About 25:11 – Leading by Example and Maintaining a Positive Persona 29:49 – The Importance of Money and Financial Freedom Tech Done Right Episode 002: Career Development with Brandon Hays and Pete Brooks 39:52 – Ethics as Automatic Technology Scales and Capitalism Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam M. Grant 49:45 – In summary: Codeland Conference Reflections: Sam: Thank you for the book recommendation for Give and Take. Astrid: People first. Rein: Support worker-owned cooperative organizations. Leadership is doing things, not being given a title. Saron: The principles and values that led to what people will experience as a really great conference. CodeNewbie References: @CodeNewbies Twitter Chat Slack Community Podcast Episode 118: Truck Driver with George Moore Codeland Please leave us a review on iTunes! Transcript: ASTRID:  Welcome to our show today, "Unrepentant Cyborgs." I’m Astrid Countee and I'm here today with my co-host, Rein 'Heinrichs'. REIN:  It's actually Henrichs. ASTRID:  I said, Henrichs. Heinrichs, Henrichs. REIN:  You said Heinrichs. ASTRID:  Heinrichs sounds so much cooler but we'll go on anyway. REIN:  On the other hand, it's not my name. [Laughter] SAM:  Picky, picky, picky. REIN:  And I'm in here with my co-host and I guess also technically your co-host, Sam Livingston-Gray. SAM:  Good morning everybody and our guest today should be familiar to those of you who may know some of us from other older podcasts. Her name is Saron Yitbarek and we had hoped that she might join us to found Greater Than Code but apparently she had cooler things to do. We’re here to talk to her about, at least one of those and not to be bitter in any way. Got it everybody? Saron, welcome to the show. SARON:  Thank you so much for having me. You know, it's so much great to hear you read that than it was to see it. I felt all the love and the excitement. I felt all of it so thank you so much. REIN:  And also the shade. SARON:  The shade was spot on. It was very shady. SAM:  We've missed you, Saron. SARON:  I missed you too. It's been a very long time. SAM:  What do we here to talk about? SARON:  Today, we're here to talk about Codeland, which I'm super, super excited about. I think it was three years ago when I went to my very first conference and since then, I soaked all over the world and I'm on a bunch of conferences, tech conferences specifically and I've been keeping a running list of everything I hate about conferences and everything I love about conferences. This is my chance to really put all that to the test and see if I have any idea what I'm talking about. It’s Codeland Conference. It's two days, it's April 21 and 22 in New York City and it's geared for people who have less than two years of professional experience. SAM:  I feel like that love-hate could be the whole show. Was there anything particularly you wanted to talk about or do you want to skip past the negativity and maybe talk about the people that you're actually aiming this at? SARON:  We can do any and all of the above. It's so funny that every time I mentioned the negative list, people like to skip the best parts of conferences. I'm like, "No, let's take into some of the stuff that sucks because I feel like we don't really talk about that a lot." SAM:  Oh, yeah. I love a good rant. [Laughter] SAM:  Rant away please. SARON:  Okay.