In the past years large companies started publishing diversity numbers. We saw that our industry doesn’t have a representation that reflects general population; also over the years we haven’t seen a large change in those numbers.

It would be more useful to have a grass root movement for increasing diversity and inclusion. Why don’t we empower individuals to understand why this is something that they should take time to do and help them understand how to do it

My talk starts with one of the first books on open source, the cathedral and the bazar, which shows how individuals were empowered and given tools to create an operating system almost from nothing. One of the lessons from this book is that given enough people, any problem can be solved. There’s a history of grass root movements in open source, so let’s harness that movement for positive change. In my talk I will show how I applied this open source spirit to inclusion