Episode 5: Coding for Sustainability and Equity with Arno & Floor
Coding In The Wild Podcast hosted by CodeHS
In this episode of Coding in the Wild, we interview Floor & Arno from the Netherlands! Floor Drees is a Developer Relations Manager at Microsoft, and Arno Fleming is a Tech Lead at The Next Closet, a sustainable marketplace for second hand designer fashion. Together they co-organize the Ruby Community in the Netherlands. Tune in as we discuss their love for the Ruby Community, English as a universal language for coders, and building inclusive communities in the programming world.
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Episode 5 Highlights
Free web development for beginners course by Microsoft mentioned by Floor.
“The Next Closet is a secondhand store for designer clothes, but on the other hand it is just a way to make sure we waste less, so sustainability is at the core of the company. That for me was the reason to apply there…” — Arno, Tech Lead at The Next Closet
“Where you typically might not think about making sure that a venue is wheelchair accessible suddenly we needed to make sure it was, we were confronted with this and thought oh gosh this is something we never thought about but maybe that’s also something that’s keeping people away from our meetups…”
“I was suddenly in all of these events where organizers would ask me “what even is a code of conduct” or where the lineup of speakers wasn’t as diverse as I am used to or even the range of topics wasn’t as diverse as I was used to from Ruby communities so I just became sort of hyper aware that we’ve been very privileged in the Ruby community and that’s something that we should bring to more communities…” — Floor Drees, Developer Relations Manager at Microsoft
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