Networking Night @ Mozilla

Women Who Code (WWCode) is a U.S. based 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers. We connect amazing women with other like-minded individuals around the globe who unite under one simple notion – the world of technology is much better with women in it.

Women Who Code Portland

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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. We will have lightning talks (talks of 5 min or less) about coding, technology, cool projects, great tools and how to use them, 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
Speakers
<A STYLE="display: inline; cursor: pointer; color: #42827e; text-decoration: none; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;" HREF="http://twitter.com/jimblandy" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jim Blandy</A>,“Systems Programing in Rust” <SPAN STYLE="animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); line-height: 1.35em; background-color: initial;">- 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! 
<P STYLE="margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: Graphik, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><A STYLE="display: inline; cursor: pointer; color: #42827e; text-decoration: none; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;" HREF="http://twitter.com/dietrich" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dietrich Ayala</A>, “Turning Sensors Into Signals” - Humanizing IoT with Old Smartphones and the Web. 
<P STYLE="margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: Graphik, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><A STYLE="display: inline; cursor: pointer; color: #42827e; text-decoration: none; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;" HREF="http://twitter.com/mrrrgn" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Morgan Phillips</A>, “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: <A STYLE="display: inline; cursor: pointer; color: #42827e; text-decoration: none; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;" HREF="http://mrrrgn.com/glowing-guacamole" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">mrrrgn.com/glowing-guacamole </A>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: Graphik, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><A STYLE="display: inline; cursor: pointer; color: #42827e; text-decoration: none; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;" HREF="http://twitter.com/gaba" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Gabriela Rodriguez Beron</A>, “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? 
<P STYLE="margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: Graphik, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><A STYLE="display: inline; cursor: pointer; color: #42827e; text-decoration: none; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;" HREF="http://www.linkedin.com/in/shaelynwatson" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Shaelyn Watson</A>, “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.
<P STYLE="margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: Graphik, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><A STYLE="display: inline; cursor: pointer; color: #42827e; text-decoration: none; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;" HREF="http://twitter.com/denormalize" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Max Ogden</A>, “NodeSchool” - How the NodeSchool community uses GitHub to organize events and tutorials.
<P STYLE="margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: Graphik, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><A STYLE="display: inline; cursor: pointer; color: #42827e; text-decoration: none; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;" HREF="http://www.linkedin.com/in/koganolga" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Olga Kogan</A> - "Do You Really Know Your Site's Visitors?" - <SPAN STYLE="animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); line-height: 1.35em; background-color: initial;">The Sitecore Experience Database (xDB) collects all your customer inter<SPAN STYLE="animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); line-height: 1.35em; background-color: initial;">actions 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 <A HREF="http://github.com/WomenWhoCode/guidelines-resources/blob/master/code_of_conduct.md" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Code of Conduct</A>.

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