Networking Night @ Mozilla

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The goal of our monthly Networking Night is to introduce our members to new companies, careers in tech, and to showcase great engineers, designers, product managers, etc working at those companies.

In May, we will be hosted by Mozilla (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/) and we plan to have lightning talks (talks of 5 minutes or less) about coding, technology, cool projects, etc.

Program

6:00-6:30 - Check-in
6:30-6:40 - Women Who Code Intro + Mozilla Intro
6:40-7:40 - Lightning Talks
7:40-8:00 - Wrap-up

Apply to Speak!

This month, we will have eight speakers each do a 5-minute lightning talk.

***** Submit your proposal for a lightning talk here (https://docs.google.com/a/womenwhocode.com/forms/d/1mdVkKPmVBu6_hMGomjY0gIFewXVuAuO69zCTr2utQPA/edit?usp=drive_web). *****

Current Line-up

Jim Blandy (http://twitter.com/jimblandy)- “Systems Programing in Rust” - Rust is a new systems programming language from Mozilla that gives you concurrency, safety, and control over performance. Can Jim justify these wild claims in only five minutes? We'll find out!

Dietrich Ayala (http://twitter.com/dietrich) - “Turning Sensors Into Signals” - Humanizing IoT with Old Smartphones and the Web.

Morgan Phillips (http://twitter.com/mrrrgn) - “Glowing Guacamole: A BASIC Interpreter in 8 hours!” - In this talk, I will share the story of how a small group of Mozilla engineers managed to build a BASIC interpreter in a single night. The interpreter lives at: mrrrgn.com/glowing-guacamole (http://mrrrgn.com/glowing-guacamole)

Gabriela Rodriguez Beron (http://twitter.com/gaba) - “Coders in the Newsroom” - What does a coder in the newsroom do? Which kind of tools do we develop? Is this exciting or/and stress inducing?

Shaelyn Watson (http://www.linkedin.com/in/shaelynwatson) - “Implementing Design with React Components” - We will implement a design using React components, demo-ing how to break down a design into logical presentational components.

Max Ogden (http://twitter.com/denormalize) - “NodeSchool” - How the NodeSchool community uses GitHub to organize events and tutorials.

Olga Kogan (http://www.linkedin.com/in/koganolga) - "Do You Really Know Your Site's Visitors?" - The Sitecore Experience Database (xDB) collects all your customer interactions in a real-time, big data repository. I am currently working on a tool that extends xDB functionality by analyzing all visitors to a site for a given time period and creates visual representations of visitor clusters which allows marketers to create more effective personalization strategies.

Who Should Attend?

Anyone is welcome to attend, as long as you support our mission and agree to follow our Code of Conduct (http://github.com/WomenWhoCode/guidelines-resources/blob/master/code_of_conduct.md).