(BIT) Blacks In Technology

On this episode of the Blacks In Technology #BITTechTalk podcast we delve into the world of bitcoins and crypto-currency. Joining us to answer questions about crypto-currency, it’s potential impact in the black community and their digital wallet application, Pheeva, is our guests Lafe Taylor and Lamar Wilson, co-founders of Love Will Inc, a software company that develops applications for the crypto-currency market.

On this episode of the Blacks In Technology #BITTechTalk podcast “Founders Hour” Greg speaks with Tiffany St. Bernard and Keshia Ashe of Many Mentors as they answer questions about their startup, mentoring and running a non-profit company.

In this episode of the Blacks In Technology #BITTechTalk podcast we are revisiting the topic of diversity at tech conferences. Given our recent partnerships with PuppetLabs, StrangeLoop, O’Reilly and DevOpsDays Chicago, as well as our attendance at some of these events, we felt it was worth another podcast to talk about increasing participation at these cons as well as why attending tech conferences is important to a tech professionals career. Joining us on this podcast is our guest Mary Scotton. Mary is a Principal Developer Evangelist for salesforce.com. Mary’s mission is to educate and enable Administrators and Developers building on the Salesforce1 Platform. She has over 20 years of software development experience, a passion for enabling non-programmers to build powerful business applications, and a drive to increase diversity and inclusion in the tech workforce.

Yes, once again it’s that time of year. Time for the leaves to begin changing colors. Time for the us to start breaking out our jackets and coats. Time for the pools to close up shop. It’s the end of summer and Blacks In Technology is ending it off with a bang! We broadcasted live from the StrangeLoop conference in St. Louis and talked about what’s ahead for BIT in the future. Joining us on this edition is #BITTechTalk alum Daphne Larose, founder of the Black Female Coders website. Topics covered include: Upcoming conferences you should look out for Strangeloop conference 2 day recap The new BIT Jobs board Upcoming Hackathons Talent BIT is seeking NOT talking diversity and of course Tech

On this episode of the #BITTechTalk podcast, Greg and Ayori speak with Matt Stratton (Solutions architect at Chef) and Michael Lanyon (VP of Engineering for Critical Mass) about DevOps. Resources mentioned: Arrested DevOps podcast: http://www.arresteddevops.com/ Shades of DevOps e-book: http://devopsebook.com/shades-of-devops/ The Phoenix Project: http://www.amazon.com/The-Phoenix-Project-Helping-Business/dp/0988262592 The Ship Show: http://theshipshow.com/ & http://theshipshow.com/diversity HangOps: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHWnE3a8_es-NNdX1sTCww Follow: Matt Stratton : @mattstratton Michael Lanyon: @lanyonm

We are continuing our monthly #FoundersHour series by speaking with entrepreneurs and startup founders Candace Mitchell and Chanel Martin of Techturized, a startup company whose focus is to provide innovative solutions to the hair care industry through science and technology. Tune in as we discuss their journey through the startup world, their vision for the hair care industry and being women of color in technology.

Diversity issues in technology are nothing new and given the recent diversity reports released by tech giants Google, Facebook and Twitter we all know that there is a lot of work that needs to be done. Take a look at the average technology conference speaker list and you'll see much of the same and even worse when it comes to people of color. Take an even closer look at the attendees of tech conferences and....well you get the point. So what do we do? How can we increase diversity at tech cons? Join us as we sit down and discuss how Bryan Smith is tackling the diversity problem at technology conferences as the founder and organizer of the Free and Open Source Software conference, FossetCon.

#FoundersHour with guest Lanise Block

In this episode of the Blacks In Technology podcast, Greg and Ayori speak with Master Technical Trainer at Salesforce Leah McGowen-Hare. Listen as we talk about diversity in tech, demistifying technology, staying relevant in tech and Soul Train lines at home. About Leah McGowen-Hare: Leah has more than twenty years of tech experience under her belt mastering roles ranging from Consultant, Developer, Manager and Technical Trainer She is an inspiration to communities of color through organizations such as LIFE Course, Girls Who Code and BlackGirls Code. Follow Leah on Twitter: @LeahBMH

#BITTechTalk ep. 56 w/ Charles Nwatu

In this episode of the Blacks In Technology podcast, Greg and Ayori are joined by Clojure developer and StrangeLoop conference founder, Alex Miller. We discuss creating more diverse tech conferences, functional programming, a day in the life of a Clojure language maintainer, offline computer science, and, yep you guessed it, the StrangeLoop conference. http://www.thestrangeloop.com Follow Alex on Twitter: @puredanger His blog: http://tech.puredanger.com/

In this episode of the Blacks In Technology podcast, Greg and Ayori are joined by CIO/VP of Operations at Puppet Labs, Nigel Kersten. Listen as we talk about the Puppet configuration management tool, diversity and hiring practices in technology, DevOps and much more. Follow Nigel at @nigelkersten

This episode we welcome our guest Kelsey Hightower. Kelsey is the former Director of Operations at PuppetLabs and is now the Director of Engineering at Monsoon Commerce. Kelsey manages a team of 14 across QA, Software Developement, UX and Tech Docs. He's curerntly involved in the Go programming language and is a contributor to the Go project itself along with many open source projects written in Go. Current projects include: Packer: Where he is a core committer and has developed a number of plugins and even received a nice shout out by Google here: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2013/12/using-google-compute-engine-with-open-source-software.html Kelsey also heads up a Go Hands on Workshops as described here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/intro-to-go-workshop-tickets-10903473583. Kelsey is the Co-editor of the golang weekly news letter: http://www.golangweekly.com/archive/ Public Speaking: Kelsey has given many tech talks at meetups and IT conferences (PuppetConfs, Ansible Fest, etc). My next talk will be at GopherCon, the first Go conference including many top names in the industryhttp://www.gophercon.com/ Past talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9TK-gUNFHk (External Data: Hiera, ENC's) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUlYEJ-fpfU (Streamlining Workflows With Puppet Faces) Ansible Fest 2014 (Ansible Packer Provisioner) Follow Kelsey on Twitter: @kelseyhightower or email Kelsey: kelseyhightower[at]gmai.com

This episode Greg and Ayori talk with Dr. Andrew Williams (Marquette University) and Dawn C. Hayes (Founder of Coollabs http://www.coollabs.org) about Robots, Spelbots, Raspberry Pi's, Arduinos and much more hardware goodness. Follow Dr. Williams: @outofthebox1 Follow Dawn C. Hayes: @cool_labs

#BITTechTalk ep. 51 Hackathons pt. 2