TMI: Day 1 of Open Source Bridge

The first day of Open Source Bridge was great! I noted on Twitter that I attended five talks in a row by women, and could have gone to a sixth if I hadn't wanted to sit out the last session to work on my slides. Also, at least two and maybe three different talks that mentioned intersectionality! This is the only open-source conference I've been to, but I'm getting the feeling it's not a typical one. Also, it's awesome that all the food is vegetarian (and almost all is vegan); it's wonderful to be able to go to a conference and be able to enjoy lunch without worrying that I'll accidentally eat something with meat in it.

For me, the highlight of the day was synecdochic's talk "Kicking Impostor Syndrome in the Head", which was as awesome as you'd expect. The best part was at the end where people in the audience named things our impostor syndrome had said to us at some point and everybody who'd also experienced the same thing raised their hand. Also great was Kronda Adair's talk "Expanding Your Empathy", about the basics of challenging oppression in conversations that happen in the tech world.

Tomorrow I'm looking forward to skud's keynote speech as well as the panel on diversity in open source. And, uh, I'm giving a talk, starting in less than 12 hours. I'll put the slides online soon after and there will be a recording on the conference web site eventually.