Databases and Diversity
327 | Fri 01 Aug 3 p.m.–3:20 p.m.
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By day, Stacey is the CFO and COO of PGX, Inc., a Postgres-only consultancy in San Francisco, California. She is also the President of the U.S. PostgreSQL Association (PgUS), a nonprofit dedicated to the advancement of PostgreSQL through education and advocacy. Stacey is an organizer of the San Francisco Bay Area PostgreSQL Users Group. Stacey is also the creator of the original PostgreSQL Community Code of Conduct, and was the first Chair of the Community CoC Committee for three years. Stacey is a Django Software Foundation Member, as well as a former Board Member of the DSF. She founded and served on the Board of the Django Events Foundation North America, and was a primary organizer of DjangoConUS 2015 – 2018. Stacey is a Contributing Member of Software in the Public Interest. By night, she sleeps, since that's a lot to do every day!
Abstract
While we have great diversity in databases—from open source systems such as PostgreSQL and CouchDB, to proprietary and heavily licensed ones such as Oracle— human diversity in the database community is not nearly equivalent. Diversity (and lack thereof) in the technical community has been a topic of increasing discussion the past few years. While we have made some progress—even submitting a proposal for a talk on diversity to a conference is a significant change—we have some distance to travel still. While won't get there in 25 minutes, we will cover a fair amount of ground!
We will review current efforts in the technical community to improve diversity, as well as ideas that have been discussed and need someone to develop them.
You will also learn what you, as one individual, can do in your daily life to improve the diversity of our community.
While we have great diversity in databases—from open source systems such as PostgreSQL and CouchDB, to proprietary and heavily licensed ones such as Oracle— human diversity in the database community is not nearly equivalent. Diversity (and lack thereof) in the technical community has been a topic of increasing discussion the past few years. While we have made some progress—even submitting a proposal for a talk on diversity to a conference is a significant change—we have some distance to travel still. While won't get there in 25 minutes, we will cover a fair amount of ground! We will review current efforts in the technical community to improve diversity, as well as ideas that have been discussed and need someone to develop them. You will also learn what you, as one individual, can do in your daily life to improve the diversity of our community.