Speaker

February Keeney

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February Keeney is passionate about building inclusive workplaces and online communities. Presently, she is furthering these goals in her role as the Engineering Manager for the Community & Safety team at GitHub. February can frequently be seen taking photos of sidewalks and power lines. Left unattended at conferences, she will seek out a piano and start covering pop b-sides. February lives in San Francisco Bay Area.
Dublin, Ireland August 6, 2016
Safety in Online Spaces
PTSD, Doxxing, Swatting, Stalking, Assault, Harassment, Bigoted Language, Needles

My team builds tools to make GitHub.com a safer and more inclusive space online. In order to do this we had to clearly define what we mean when talking about "Safety Online".

In this talk I will discuss how we have defined Safety in Online Spaces and how we use that definition to determine what tools we can make and actions we can take to increase the safety of our users and encourage more inclusive open source communities.