Monthly Meetup: Angular D3 Chart Directives, Hurdles in OSS, and Creative Coding

It's the 2nd Thursday of the month, time to hang out with your fellow web developers!

We have three topics this month!

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Topic 1: Angular D3 Chart Directives Made with the Miso d3.chart LibraryAva Collins

bio:: Ava has worked and lived in Seattle for the past eight years building user interface at many great companies across the city. She's spent the last two years focused on Angular JS development and more recently I've add D3 to my daily work. She currently leads the front end of an analytics application at Apollo Education Group. She also organizes Seattle Ladies JS, a meetup group that aims to get women involved with JavaScript.

abstract:: I'll be presenting a pattern to build composable, reusable charts using Angular, D3 and the miso d3.chart library. This pattern is interesting is because both Angular and D3 have their own DOM updating patterns which do not play well with one another out of the box and are not easily extended. The pattern I am presenting takes advantage of Angular to create self contained configurable directives that manage DOM manipulations and data retrieval while relying on the miso d3.chart library for organizing D3 code and drawing the visualizations in a structured and modular way.
You can see the project code here (https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fgithub.com%2fsimplesthing%2fangular-d3-miso&data=01%7c01%7cjeremy.foster%40microsoft.com%7c97ddb5ec944a4090116308d2c6a1bc6a%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=Pu81QP%2bI9jwFs4XKMtOcC9MviozY0DqCpocPqvh0N5M%3d).

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Topic 2: Hurdles for an Open Source NewbieMixolidia Gautreaux

bio:: Miami transplant who moved to Seattle in the Summer of 2014. Mixolidia just finished Rails Girls Summer of Code. Where she and teammate Sarah Guermond worked on exercism with Katrina Owen. Rails Girls Summer of Code is a global fellowship program aimed at bringing more diversity into Open Source. exercism is an app which offers crowdsourced mentorship through focused exercises to develop your programming skills and practice.

abstract:: Mixolidia will be speaking about the hurdles she faced as an open-source contributor newbie. Her talk addresses do's and dont's for open-source project contributors, maintainers and creators. This talk is an extension
of the lightning talk she and her teammate gave at Madison+ Ruby 2015.

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Topic 3: Solving Sol and Creative Coding Brad Bouse

bio:: Brad is the co-founder of Lightboard (http://lightboarding.com/), an on-demand graphic design service. He is also the co-founder of Code Fellows and a co-organizer of SeattleJS. In his spare time, he enjoys creative coding. With Amaranth Borsuk, he made an augmented reality book of poetry (Between Page and Screen (http://betweenpageandscreen.com)). For the 2013 CascadiaJS, he made Glitchbooth (http://glitchbooth.com/booth) -- which takes terrible selfies. At the 2014 JSConfEU, he gave a talk about the Usefulness of Uselessness (http://youtube.com/watch?v=K7C7iUYntNs).

abstract:: Solving Sol and creative coding. Sol LeWitt is considered to be the father of conceptual art and produced instructional art that you can do in your browser. Take a look: https://github.com/wholepixel/solving-sol

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Please note: the elevators and the 2nd Ave entrance to the facility will be locking at 7:30, so if for some reason you arrive after that you will not have access to enter.

If you're interested in speaking at Seattle JS and you're anywhere close to awesome (hint: we think you are), then please submit a talk (https://github.com/seattlejs/seattlejs/blob/master/request-to-speak.md).