• How This List Works
• Developer Groups
• How to Add a Group
• Why Make This List?

If you're planning an event, put together a simple email that says something like this:

Hi, there!

I'm one of the organizers of {{CONF_NAME}}, and we're looking for speakers. We wanted to reach out to your community directly to let you know the call for proposals is open at {{CFP_LINK}}. We think the members of your group could offer a lot to our attendees, and we'd like to invite them all to submit ideas.

You can find out more about the conference at {{CONF_LINK}}, or reach out to me directly with any questions.

If you're comfortable with it, we'd really appreciate it if you'd share the CFP with your community.

Thanks!
{{YOUR_NAME}}

You can send this email to every group at once, if you'd like — though it'd probably pay dividends to personalize it a bit — and this ensures that your CFP is seen in as many communities as possible, encouraging submissions from a diverse group of developers and driving up the quality of the talks at your event.

Groups are in alphabetical order. Want to add your group? Here's how!

• BeVisible: site · email
• Black Girls Code: site · contact
• Blacks in Technology (BIT): site · email
• ChickTech: site · email
• Code2040: site · email
• Enby Tech Speakers List: site
• Geek Girls Carrots: site · email
• Girl Develop It: site · email
• Girls Who Code: site · contact
• Kansas City Women in Technology: site · email
• Lesbians Who Tech: site · email
• MotherCoders: site · email
• Open Source Diversity: site
• ResilientCoders: site · email
• ShePlusPlus: site · email
• Speakerinnen: site · contact
• Spectra: site · email
• Technolochicas: site · email
• Techqueria: site · email
• Techy Girls Foundation: site · email
• Trans*H4CK: site · email
• Women Who Code: site · contact
• YesWeCode: site · email

The only criteria for adding your group to this list is that your group consists of people in the development/tech/web space.

Please edit this file to add your group with the following format:

- Group Name: [site](http://example.com) · [email](mailto:[email protected])

Recently, I got into a debate about diversity on Reddit, and it bummed me out.

The ElectronConf roster was 100% men, despite a blind review process. This points to a big issue: there wasn't any diversity in the proposals to begin with, so the roster was doomed to be skewed. Personally, I don't believe any of this was due to malice or ill intent, but an oversight on the part of the conference organizers to welcome proposals from a more diverse group of developers.

We can make this easier for conferences everywhere: this is a (far from exhaustive) list of developer groups we can reach out to during calls for proposals to make sure we're welcoming everyone in tech at our conferences.

Inviting a broader group of developers to submit proposals means more proposals, better conferences, more value for attendees, and a strong message to the tech community: you are welcome here.