Dev Tools for Web Performance + Networking + Great Swag!

*note, this meetup was moved from Wednesday, April 5 to Tuesday, April 4*

After taking a month off in March for our annual Open Source 101 conference taking place March 23 in Charlotte, we're coming back strong in April with a fantastic speaker and topic. We'll also be back onsite at IBM, which we're really looking forward to.

Sia Karamalegos, a developer, international conference speaker, and writer currently working on web performance at Shopify will deliver a talk on Dev Tools for Web Performance. A second, shorter 15 minute talk will also be added very soon.

Lots of swag will be available at this meetup, as always, including a limited number of ATO 2022 t-shirts and hats and at least one very cool piece of technology (we love mechanical keyboards).

Food and beverages will be served as well, courtesy of our amazing hosts IBM.

Contact us with questions at info@allthingsopen.org.

Venue doors officially open at 6:00 pm (you can arrive earlier if you like), live programing begins at 6:30 pm ET sharp. We'll begin the evening with a few community announcements, then we'll quickly move to our speakers.

Location and Address:
IBM
Building 500, Room G-104
4205 S Miami Blvd
Durham, NC 27703
*Questions regarding venue can be directed to Sahdev directly at 336-254-1689.

Directions:
1). Enter IBM campus from Miami Boulevard and Cornwallis Road,
2). Follow signs for IBM Software Group Main Lobby B500 and take third left (DEVELOPMENT LANE) toward Main Lobby 500.
3). Park into the Visitor Parking lot which is in the front of the B500. You will be escorted from the building entrance/lobby.

Speaker #1:
Sia Karamalegos, developer, international conference speaker, and writer, currently working on web performance at Shopify.

Bio:
Sia Karamalegos is a developer, international conference speaker, and writer, currently working on web performance at Shopify. She is a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, a Cloudinary Media Developer Expert, and a Stripe Community Expert. She co-organizes the Eleventy Meetup which won the 2021 Jammies Award for Outstanding Community Meetup. She is the founder and lead developer for Clio + Calliope Web Development and was recognized in the Silicon Bayou 100, the 100 most influential and active people in tech and entrepreneurship in Louisiana.

She graduated from Texas A&M University with a BS in chemical engineering and received her MBA from Harvard Business School. When she's not coding, speaking, or consulting, Sia likes to write short stories and dabble in charcoal figure drawing. She's also an avid endurance athlete.

Sia on the internets:
Website: https://sia.codes/
Mastodon: https://front-end.social/@sia
GitHub: https://github.com/siakaramalegos/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karamalegos/

Talk Title: Dev Tools for Performance

Talk Abstract:
Performance is important. Tooling can be hard. Do flame charts and waterfalls intimidate you? Come learn how to use common performance tools such as Chrome DevTools, webpagetest.org, and real user data with the Chrome User Experience report