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MSFT engineer starts Juneteenth Conf: build community for Black people in tech
- aspenmayer 6y agoJuly 19-20 First panel starts Friday, June 19, 04:00pm - 05:00pm (UTC) [about 2.5 hours from this comment’s posting] https://juneteenthconf.com https://juneteenthconf.com On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23572581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23572581 > Michael Brown, senior software development engineer at Microsoft, organized JuneteenthConf, a virtual tech conference to build community among Black people in tech that will take place Friday and Saturday. > During this conference, attendees can listen to talks from 31 Black developers and designers and attend a town hall to discuss ongoing current events. Original title was too long. It was: A Microsoft engineer is organizing a conference in honor of Juneteenth to build community among Black people in tech