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A Step-by-Step Guide to Hosting Inclusive Developer Meetups or Events In Your Office

Sarah-Jane Morris on May 29, 2019

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Ben Halpern





Thanks sooooo much for this!

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Sarah-Jane Morris

I really was torn between ✔️, ✅ and ☑️ 😂

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Ben Halpern

😄

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Jan Wedel

✔️Looks bad on dev.to dark theme 😉

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Sarah-Jane Morris

Next checklist post I'll use:

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But seriously, that is a good point! Might do a find and replace later, want this post to be as accessible as possible!

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Ben Halpern

✔️Looks bad on dev.to dark theme 😉

That’s an interesting scenario. I wonder if we could come up with a technical solution to help there. Could be complicated.

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Jan Wedel • Edited

Yep, certainly, there could be a list of some emojis that need to be color inverted on black theme. But maybe it’s just too much for the benefit... 😎

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Jan Wedel

I would have a look the color inverse mode aka pseudo dark mode on iPhone. I think have some nice approaches. However it does work perfectly in every case.

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Jan Wedel

Wow, thank you for this VERY detailed and great post. There’s a lot you can learn from it. We’ve hosted a couple of events at our company so far but I didn’t had to organize it. But once i need to, I’ve got your post in my bookmarks. I think there are a couple of points that we can use to get better. 👍🙏

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Sarah-Jane Morris

Thank you! I'm glad it'll be useful for you! This post is selfishly detailed - I tried to make it a simple matter of following a checklist for my fellow colleagues at Keen IO that wanted to host events themselves... so that we could have more community events! :) This guide did achieve that goal, but also served the goal of reminding me and everyone else that hosts events how many details are actually involved. 😅

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Jan Wedel

Yes, I guess it’s one of those things where at first you think “that should be easy” but when you read your post you think “all of those points I would have forgotten make a lot of sense!”

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Alvarez García

Oh.. I need to learn more about this.
Great article!