WordPress & Problem of Diversity - Maziar Firuzmand

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1. WordPress & Problem of Diversity With A Case-Study of Artbees Maziar Firuzmand Co-founder & Product Designer at Artbees WordCamp Catania 2019
2. Maziar Firuzmand WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Co-founder & Product Designer at Artbees @antialiasfactry
3. What are we not going to talk about today? WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Promote a company or its products
4. What are we going to talk about today? WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 A Contemporary Common Creepy Callous problem!
5. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Diversiwhat?!
6. Otherness WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Let’s talk about first.
7. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Simone de Beauvoir 1 The Second Sex (1975)
8. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Man is the subject, woman is the Other “ ” The Second Sex (1975)
9. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Whereas man’s experience is central and absolute, woman’s is perceived as inessential, alien and negative.
10. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 De Beauvoir believed the Other to be a fundamental category of human thought.
11. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 The human mind bears an innate hostility to other consciousnesses.
12. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Friedrich Hegel 2 Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)
13. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 The Self characterizes anything which is not identical with itself as ‘an inessential, negatively characterized object’.
14. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Jacques Lacan 3 The Ego in Freud’s Theory (1954)
15. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Sometime between the age of 6 and 18 months, the infant is able to recognize its own image in a mirror...
16. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 “That image is me..” https://www.flickr.com/photos/crimfants/
17. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 That is as an external relation.
18. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Thessaloniki 20 WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 18 Thus, the formation of an I concept, the ego occurs.
19. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 where subject becomes object.
20. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 In other words in order for the ego to be a subject, it must internalize a principle of otherness as a consequence of its own desire to be a desiring subject.
21. Self WordPress & Problem of WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Thessaloniki 2018 Other
22. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Because of the self/other binary all of our knowledge and actions are rooted in some set of interests that cause the subjects of class, gender, ethnicity & race.
23. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Fascism Author: Voice of America: Learning English / 1992 And this is what causes
24. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Gender Inequality https://unsplash.com/photos/eY7ioRbk2sY
25. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Patriarchy https://unsplash.com/photos/eY7ioRbk2sY
26. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 So with ‘Otherness’ defined, what is diversity?
27. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Diversity dismantles the self/other binary and its products. https://unsplash.com/photos/WNXujnXfK7I
28. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Diversity includes everything that we are and that we are not. https://unsplash.com/photos/Tn224epst1E
29. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Gender https://unsplash.com/photos/pMW4jzELQCw Religion Race Age Disability Languages Socio-economic Status Cultural Backgrounds
30. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 A few remarks on WordPress & Diversity
31. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 69 countries Distributed Company 821 employees 84 Languages
32. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 “We see inclusion as the ongoing, conscious effort to celebrate difference and welcome people of differing backgrounds and life experiences, whether they’re current or prospective employees, partners, or users of our software.” From Diversity and Inclusion page Automattic website
33. “Educate yourself about diversity. Help make accessible and localized products and projects”. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019
34. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 In 2014, Automattic started to work on facilitating spaces for discussions about diversity at Automattic.
35. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Automattic Supports
36. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Andrea Middleton Community organizer on the WordPress Open Source Project “When WordPress events are more diverse, the WordPress project gets more diverse which makes WordPress better for more people.” wordpress.tv
37. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Jill Binder founder & leader of Diversity Outreach Speaker Training Workshop. > Held in 17 cities > 32 have been trained > 53 have expressed interest in 24 countries. jillbinder.com
38. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 WordPress is on the right track pursuing a world without ‘Others’.
39. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 This is more important on the context of 2019 where you see waves of nationalism, ethnic and religious hate and sexualized discourses are creeping across almost all countries in the world.
40. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 What’s missing!?
41. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 An independent diversity team in Make WordPress
42. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Yoast Diversity Fund Program pledges a minimum of €25,000 each year to support diversity of speakers at a given conference. A round of applause!
43. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 How does this all relate to Artbees?
44. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Artbees was founded in 2010 by 3 non-American non- White non-techies!
45. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Icon Designer & Performing Arts Graduate Graphic Designer & Cartoonist Web Developer & Medical School Dropout
46. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 kicked off our work from an abandoned apartment Garage
47. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 We began with massive freebie contribution to Deviantart. Graphic design assets, actions, icons, you name it.
48. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Our contributions quickly gained momentum landing spots in several designs blogs such as. Smashing Magazine.
49. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Our first WordPress attempts were all failed. Rejected one after the other by Themeforest.
50. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 In July 2013 after months of work and barely a pizza a day we could finally submit Jupiter WP to Themeforest.
51. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 and hit the top-sellers chart.
52. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 During years we have been subject to different levels of discrimination and prejudice
53. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 because of factors such as nationality, religion and non-tech backgrounds of its founders.
54. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Nevertheless we survived.
55. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 We grew & thrived.
56. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Jupiter is 6 years old now.
57. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Artbees now has about 150000 users and offices in Turkey, Germany and US.
58. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Our 25 team members are from different countries across the globe. Turkey, Canada, Russia, Morocco, Columbia, US, Ukraine, India, Philippines & more.
59. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 We have 7 female members from development to support to HR and marketing.
60. Artbees evolved as a product of diversity in a world where diversity is not much tolerated. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019
61. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 A place for people of different colors, genders, religions, tastes & backgrounds
62. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 We emerged in a world where we were ‘Others’ and tried to make a company where ‘Other’ does not exist.
63. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 It’s only Us and We.
64. WordPress & Problem of Diversity | WordCamp Catania 2019 Thank you!