Code for Progress

Check out Code for Progress Community Learning Series Alum, Larry Williams Jr's UnionBase - brining digital innovation to the labor movement:

We spoke to the guy who's trying to bring unions into the 21st century “The limits of the labor movement don’t make sense to my generation”

JOB POSTING: Our amazing friends at Fugue DC are seeking a Senior Web Engineer. Great place to work. Please apply if interested and help spread the word!

https://fugue.co/careers/551217/

Senior Web Engineer Fugue builds, optimizes, and enforces cloud infrastructure, continuously and automatically. Declare your cloud. Let Fugue automate the rest.

The film Hidden Figures is inspiring a new generation of young female coders of color.

'Hidden Figures' A Hit With Young Women Of Color Interested in STEM The film Hidden Figures is inspiring a new generation of young female coders of color. NPR checks in with some teenagers who like the movie.

We had a front end workshop this week taught by Andrew M. & Leslie L. from Fugue DC! Learning React and Javascript. Grateful for volunteers.

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"Stuck in the Shallow End is a story of how inequality is reproduced in America—and how students and teachers, given the necessary tools, can change the system."

Stuck in the Shallow End An investigation into why so few African American and Latino high school students are studying computer science reveals the dynamics of inequality in American schools.

Reflection of breakthrough technologies of 2016.

Have our most important new technologies made any headway? Find out how new ideas like reusable rockets, immune engineering, and Tesla’s Autopilot have progressed.

Click here to support Help launch Tightshift Laboring Cooperative!

http://www.recode.net/2016/12/1/13805948/first-round-capital-founders-survey-2016-diversity-problem-tech

More than 80 percent of tech founders still have no formal plans to promote diversity And that’s a problem.

"It’s okay to not know everything.
Just go for it.
Don’t be afraid."

We had 2 guest speakers visit CFP recently: Danielle Cummings & Rose Robinson from Black Women in Computing! Thank you so much for your work!

DC just set an ambitious goal to become the No. 1 city for 'inclusive innovation' - Technical.ly DC And Mayor Bowser's administration has some ideas for how to get there. It's all laid out in the city's first ever “Inclusive Innovation Report.”