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Today we are talking about Inclusive Hiring Practices, Disability Employment Awareness Month, and tips to improve your hiring practices with our guest Donna Bungard. We’ll also cover Organigrams as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/418

Topics

• When is National Disability Awareness Month
• What is the definition of Inclusive in this context
• Why are inclusive hiring practices important
• Have organizations been doing well with this
• What is disclosure and how can it impact people
• What can organizations do to be more inclusive
• What tools can be used to improve hiring practices
• Whose responsibility is it to address issues
• Any closing thoughts

Resources

National Disability Employment Awareness Month Snow shovel cartoon Curb-cut effect

Race after technology Center for accessible technology Apple assistive tech

Guests

Donna Bungard – @dbungard

Hosts

Nic Laflin – nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi – epam.com johnpicozzi Jen Lampton – jenlampton.com – jenlampton

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz – @mandclu Organigrams

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever needed a way to define and display an org chart on your Drupal website? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2016 by PatrickScheffer
  • Versions available: 7.x-1.3, 8.x-1.3, and 8.x-2.3 versions, the last two of which can be used with Drupal 8, 9, and 10
• Maintainership
  • Maintenance fixes only
• Number of open issues:
  • 2 issues, neither are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 377 sites
• Module features and usage
  • The module works by extending core’s taxonomy hierarchy management
  • You can organize who reports to who with a simple drag-and-drop, the same as any taxonomy hierarchy. For anyone who hasn’t used those, it would be basically the same as managing a menu structure
  • Once created, an organigram can be viewed as a dedicated page, a block, and a token
  • The 2.x branch uses Flexbox to achieve a CSS-only presentation that removes the need for any Javascript
  • Appears to have been built to serve the needs of the Dutch House of Representatives
  • I haven’t tested it, but I suspect that for a site with a very large organigram they need to build, tools like Client Side Hierarchical Select, built to make managing large taxonomies easier, are likely to work with Organigrams too

In this episode, we discuss the hardware and software each of us use in our software development work with guest Drew Bragg: https://www.rubberduckdevshow.com/episodes/102-our-favorite-development-tools/

With a message from Claudio Jeker (claudio@), the OpenBSD project today announced the release of the OpenBSD
BGP
(Border Gateway Protocol) daemon OpenBGPD, version 8.2.

The announcement reads,

From: Claudio Jeker <claudio () openbsd ! org>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2023 10:22:39 +0000
To: openbsd-announce
Subject: OpenBGPD 8.2 released

We have released OpenBGPD 8.2, which will be arriving in the
OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.

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The Verge has an excellent write-up of Satya Nadella’s day in court during the Google antitrust trial today. The power of defaults is one of the central questions of the entire US v. Google case and will continue to come up. (The witness after Nadella is former Neeva CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy, who has also said his search engine was crushed in part because overcoming Google’s default status was so difficult.) Nadella is in the rare position to have seen both sides — what it’s like to be the default and what it’s like to contend when you’re not — and argued resolutely that defaults are the only thing that truly matters. Google, on the other hand, says that building the best product is the only thing that truly matters and that Bing has never come close to doing that. Which side of that debate Judge Mehta agrees with may be the story of this entire trial. It’s an excellent and at times even funny read.