Duke University's Code+ project — promoting undergraduate DEI: DrupalCon Portland 2022
Channel: Drupal Association
Date: 2022-05-05

Speaker: Kyle Skrinak

Through Duke University's Code+ co-curricular program, Duke is committed to increasing equity, inclusion, and diversity in the technology talent pipeline, and is interested in attracting students from underrepresented communities, including first-generation college students. The co-curricular program, started in 2018, exposes Duke University undergraduates to the latest leading-edge industry technologies and tools in a peer learning environment, and provides an important professional development opportunity.

In 2021, we organized a Code+ project to expose students — as a team — to taking an existing Drupal module, BasicShib, contribute to the module and provide additional functionality. The team had little to no Drupal knowledge prior to the project and received the help of Drupal-experienced developers and entrepreneurs along the way. They experienced the open source community at its best and most helpful across a number of disciplines.

In this session, we will present an overview of the Code+ project, a timeline of the 10 intensive summer weeks from learning, project management, developing code and finally to contributed code commits to Drupal.org. We will then allow the audience to ask the team questions as to their experience.