Oakland as a major center for Blacks in technology

Last update: Sunday 9/20/15

Located in the northern shadow of Silicon Valley, Oakland is small city (391,000) that has a much smaller Black population (109,000). Nevertheless, in the last five years charismatic activists have transformed some of Oakland's grassroots organizations into national leaders in the provision of hands-on opportunities for learning coding and computational thinking skills, opportunities for the youth in Black communities throughout the nation -- from New York City to Philadelphia PA, to Washington DC, to Raleigh NC, to Memphis TN ... and the list keeps growing. Municipal governments, corporations, and foundations committed to diversifying the pipelines of information technology have endorsed the national ambitions of Oakland's expanding network by providing funds, staff, equipment, and other resources to support the network's hackathons, workshops, and other training activities.

Below find DLL's Storyfies of some of the Oakland network's #DiversityInTech events in Oakland during the last 15 months:

• Education Hackathon -- DLL Storify of Black Girls Code Hackathon in Oakland, Day 3 of 3 ... Sunday 6/21/15 ... Day 2 ... Day 1
   
•  Education hackathon -- DLL Storify of #MBKHack in Oakland, CA -- Friday 2/20/15 to Sunday 2/22/15 ... Qeyno Labs
   
• Education hackathon -- DLL Storify of IGNITE International Girls Hackathon ... many cities, hosted by Black Girls Code in Oakland -- Friday 2/13/15 to Sunday 2/15/15
   
• Education hackathon -- BlackGirlsCode.Com (Oakland CA)
  ... June 2014 ... Storyfies for Day #1 and Day #2

Below find Storyfies by the DLL and others of some of the Oakland network's activities in other cities during the last 15 months:

• Education hackathon -- BlackGirlsCode.Com (Brooklyn NY)
  ... June 2014 ... Storyfies for Day #1 and Day #2
   
• Education hackathon -- BlackGirlsCode "LoveIsRespect -- New Orleans LA ... July 2014
   
• Education hackathon -- YesWeCode, Qeyno Labs  "Essence Fest in NOLA"
  ... July 2014 ... Storifys for Day #1, Day #2, Day #3, and Day #4
  ... Participant Note -- Strategic Partnerships & Grants Mgr. Tiffany Price reflects on the next generation of tech innovators at #EssenceFest 
   ... YesWeCode's assessment of the historic impact of its hackathon
   ... Qeyno Lab's description of the winning app in the hackathon
   
• Education hackathon -- Brandon Andrews Storify of My Brothers Keeper #MBKHack in Philly, 11/14/14 to 11/16/14 ... Qeyno Labs, YesWeCode
   
• Education Meetup -- DLL Storify of Black Girls Code Kickoff Meeting of BGC Chapter in Raleigh Durham, NC -- Wednesday 5/27/15
   
• Education Meetup -- DLL Storify of Black Girls Code Launch of Chapter in Washington, DC -- Monday, 6/1/15
   
• Education Workshop -- DLL Storify of Black Girls Code "Build a Webpage in a Day" Workshop at NCCU ... Saturday 7/11/15
   
• Education Hackathon -- DLL Storify of @BlackGirlsCode #Hackathon, Brooklyn -- Day 1, Day 2, Day 3  ... Friday 7/24/15 to Sunday 7/26/15
   
• Education Workshop -- DLL Storify of Black Girls Code "Build a Game in a Day with Javascript (Part 1)" Oakland -- Saturday 9/19/15 

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Related notes on this blog:

• Major Centers for Blacks in Technology ... February 2016