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it sent me straight to the waiting list
yes / no?
anyone?
Heya, I just had a look at the numbers for London tonight and there are 20 mentors and 46 students so I think they could do with the help. I think it might not let you accept the invites too near to the time that the event starts... unless @despo says otherwise, as far as I can tell it would be good if you could mentor :)
see you there!
Normally it wouldn't be a problem, but I think Twitter's security is tighter than most of our venues.
it seems to be quite hard to find solid data but in terms of women in tech maybe get them to read the downloadable PDF report on here: http://www.e-skills.com/research/research-themes/women-in-it/ other than that I guess underrepresented means anyone who would be considered to be within a minority, so I would think LGBTQ and people from different ethnicities... I guess anyone who may experience difficulties from not fitting into the 'white straight male' description... though In Brighton if someone who isn't 'underrepresented' wanted to come to Codebar then they could do, as long as they bought someone with them who fell into the category, but I guess in London places fill up so they need to prioritise who gets a space. I'll have a look around and see if I can find any broader data.
@creature @Rosa-Fox I think the closest we have for women in tech is the BCS numbers, you should find them here: http://policy.bcs.org/sites/policy.bcs.org/files/Women%20in%20IT%20scorecardv2.pdf
In summary, I think 16% of all IT specialists across all industries are women, a subset of around 9% I think make up web-dev and engineering. This only covers women, and I would be careful of trying to define 'underrepresented', as it implies there is a specific/correct level of representation.
At least none that are easily digestible, the numbers will vary between cities, countries and sectors, and in many cases it would rely on information that would be very sensitive. Employers are likely not allowed in most contexts to even ask if someone feels they have gender identity issues or what their sexual preferences are. Which would mean relying on voluntary surveys, which again feel like they would fall short of producing accurate data.
Then you'll probably have arguments about subgroups of straight white males being underrepresented. I don't, for example, consider any of the bigots, racists, fascists or misogynists that I hear about in tech, representative of myself, the fact that we share colour and gender doesn't change that.
Whatever you find, please share as I would be happy to know more.
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Hi there,
Does anyone recommend a good tutorial about polyfills. I need to apply one for one html5 element on a three page portfolio website with a contact form, a gradient, a shadow and a transform or animation. I've searched online, but the quality seems diverse and not knowing the topic, I thought I'd better ask here. Thanks a lot in advance.
Does anyone recommend a good tutorial about polyfills. I need to apply one for one html5 element on a three page portfolio website with a contact form, a gradient, a shadow and a transform or animation. I've searched online, but the quality seems diverse and not knowing the topic, I thought I'd better ask here. Thanks a lot in advance.
Then you can use Modernizr.load() to load polyfills
This looks like a reasonable guide on first time use: http://html5doctor.com/using-modernizr-to-detect-html5-features-and-provide-fallbacks/
Hi, 18.30 - 21.00pm will be eating pizza and chatting. 7pm - 9pm we split into pairs and take the students either through tutorials on the website, or help them with their own projects if possible. If you would like, Ryan who co-organises Codebar can sit with you and give you some mentoring advice before the coding starts? Otherwise there is some advice here: http://www.codebar.io/effective-teacher-guide. See you later!
just writing future ones?
