My name is Chrissy Brodigan and I lead user experience research at GitHub. One of my projects at

GitHub is to work on an event called Patchwork, which is an event where we introduce newcomers

to get and GitHub to experts in the field and we bring them together to learn how to get started

in the world of open source.

Hi, I'm Susan Mernett.

I'm a former Yahoo Netscape and AOL, product development executive.

And when I moved to Oakland, I started an organization called Hack the Hood that teaches coding

and tech skills to low-income young people of color.

Hi, I'm Laura Weidman Powers.

I'm the co-founder and CEO of a nonprofit based here in San Francisco called Code 2040.

We work on creating pathways into the tech sector for blacks and Latinos.

Hi, I'm Rushita-Cajani, the CEO and founder of Girls of Code.

We're a national nonprofit that's 50-year-closed of gender gap in computer science and education.

Excellent. Well, I know the topic that we're talking about today is code literacy, and I thought a really good place to begin would be if we actually

give it some meaning. Because when I was first introduced to me, I thought, well, what does that

actually mean? So I'd love to go around and have everyone define what code literacy means

to you. I've thought about this a lot because of all of the hype about programming languages and

coding and you have to code.

And I think I have a broader definition than being able to write C or Ruby on Rails or

have one specific language.

I think that everyone today more and more is going to need how to, need to know how to write basic HTML, to understand CSS, to have some of the tools to manipulate environments that they live in, and that includes different kinds of scripting.

So whether it's using some kind of library or assembler or it's actually learning how to write a specific coding language, I think we're all

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