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A good friend of mine, Eric Knapp, is a teacher at Madison College in Madison, WI. He's an awesome teacher and has a ton of smart students come through his classes. One of his students, Kathryn Sweet, guest-posted on the Anita Borg Institute's Medium account about her experiences with being turned down for internships because she's treated as an inferior student. Closing off internships to community college students disproportionately affects students of color, lower-income students, and students who are supporting families.It's incredibly stupid to consider community college students as unqualified for internships. I started my college career off with a two-year degree at Milwaukee Area Technical College - an institution related to Madison College where Kathryn attends. I got a great education there and it jump-started my drive to go further with a bachelor's and master's degrees. Had I not attended MATC and gotten a job with an employer willing to pay for my tuition I may not be where I am today. ...

Some people have asked me what it's like working for Automattic. Every employee of Automattic has a different perspective on what it means to work here. Here are a few things I feel are important to me. Work Wherever, WheneverAutomattic is a completely distributed company. We have a headquarters in San Francisco, CA USA but only a small percentage of us work out that office. Most of us work from home, some of us work on the road, others work from a coworking space. Sometimes it's nice being able to change your location once in a while - I pretty much like working from my home office. I like working a regular day, usually 7am - 4pm my local time and I fit some sort of exercise routine in there half way through. We have flexibility to make our own hours and take the time off we need to. We're adults and we're treated as such. ...