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🤩🌈 The Community Lounge is welcoming 20 unique presentations across all three conference days at @CSSconfeu and @jsconfeu.

We're so thrilled to have an amazing program that showcases people who are doing remarkable and noteworthy work in the community ⚡️

Presented this weekend in the Community Lounge are:

@afrotechfest by @firstname_debs: a 2-day tech and digital festival by and for black people of African and Caribbean heritage. They aim to create a festival that is intentionally diverse and inclusive of those often excluded.

.@meetalva by @OwlCowl, @tilmx, @_oelhafen: a radically new digital design tool built for cross-functional product teams. It lets you design interactive products based on the same components your engineers are using for production websites.

.@berlinjs by @rmehner: berlin's longest running monthly javascript meetup.

@ClojureBridge by @dantoml: a free workshop and study group introducing women and non-binary people to programming and the local technology community.

.@codebarBerlin by @ambrwlsn90: a non-profit that facilitates a diverse tech community by running regular free programming workshops for people from underrepresented groups

@railsgirls_bln by @ferbsx: now CodeCurious, offer free workshops and organizes project groups for women*

CommonVoice from @mozilla by @mikehenrty: an initiative to crowdsource a public dataset of human voices to be used in open speech technology.

@CSSclasses by @_die_katrin: a 1-day event for people interested in learning how they can create and manipulate elements on a website.

"It's a volunteer's world - How to keep you and your team motivated" from @DajanaGuenther: shared experience from a celebrated mentor in the berlin scene

@nodeschoolbln by @finnpauls: a co-learning meetup helping people learn JS & Node interactively with the support of mentors

OMGDPR by @mrchrisadams: a community-run, free unconference around GDPR, by and for people who build the web, in Berlin

@OTS_BLN by @mohamed3on: an open movement offering free tech education, open to technology enthusiasts of all genders, backgrounds, and experience levels.

.@PyLadiesBer by @sleepypioneer: a monthly meetup of Python developers of all levels who are eager to develop and advance together

@RailsGirlsSoC by @alicetragedy: a global 3-month scholarship program to work on existing Open Source projects for women and non-binary coders.

.@ReDISchool by Inana and @MardiniObay: a non-profit digital school for tech-interested newcomers in Germany, offering students high-quality training, valuable digital skills and a strong network of tech leaders, students and alumni to help create new opportunities for all.

.@simplysecureorg by Eileen: empowering practitioners through open research, professional education, community building, and hands-on support.

.@spektrumberlin by Wolf: a convergence of cultural communities and transdisciplinary groups emerging and operating in and off Berlin. It aims to bring confrontation, open knowledge and a platforms for idealisation, realisation and presentation of technology-based art and MORE.

Choose Your Own Instrument by @theophani: a workshop for high school kids to learn the basics of web programming, centered around a musical playground that Tiffany built. She'll share her thoughts and experience about what you can teach in just two hours to a roomful of teenagers

.@upfront_ug by Katharina: an all-things frontend monthly meetup in the heart of berlin

@wtm_berlin by Corina: encouraging diversity and inclusion in tech since 2015, providing a wide range of workshops, coding sessions, fireside chats and talks to our community and more

We're also joined by two VR installations this year:

Pore by @acwervo: a WebVR installation that helps you think about your body, movement, and the membrane between digital & physical worlds.

And finally,

Wilde Eastern by @chrissyelie: a multi-ending immersive 360º film where the experience is dictated by the clues seen by the viewer.