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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Networking Night @ Mozilla</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2016-05-24T18:00:00" datetime="2016-05-24T18:00:00">Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 6pm</time></div> <div class="description p-description"> <p><img src="http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/4/b/3/4/600_449659252.jpeg"></p> <p> </p><p><b>RSVP policy:</b> you will need to register through Eventbrite here: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/networking-night-mozilla-tickets-24721439491">www.eventbrite.com/e/networking-night-mozilla-tickets[masked]</a> </p> <p><b><br></b></p> <p><b>--------------- Event Details ---------------</b></p> <p>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.</p> <p>In May, we will be hosted by <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/">Mozilla</a> and we plan to have lightning talks (talks of 5 minutes or less) about coding, technology, cool projects, etc. </p> <p><b>Program </b></p> <p>6:00-6:30 - Check-in <br>6:30-6:40 - Women Who Code Intro + Mozilla Intro <br>6:40-7:40 - Lightning Talks <br>7:40-8:00 - Wrap-up</p> <p><b>Apply to Speak!<br></b></p> <p>This month, we will have eight speakers each do a 5-minute lightning talk. </p> <p><strong><strong><em> Submit your proposal for a lightning talk <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/womenwhocode.com/forms/d/1mdVkKPmVBu6_hMGomjY0gIFewXVuAuO69zCTr2utQPA/edit?usp=drive_web">here</a>. </em></strong></strong></p> <p><b>Current Line-up</b></p> <p><b><a href="http://twitter.com/jimblandy">Jim Blandy </a>- “Systems Programing in Rust” </b></p> <p>- 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> <p><b><a href="http://twitter.com/dietrich">Dietrich Ayala</a> - “Turning Sensors Into Signals” </b>Humanizing IoT with Old Smartphones and the Web. </p> <p><b><a href="http://twitter.com/mrrrgn">Morgan Phillips</a> - “Glowing Guacamole: A BASIC Interpreter in 8 hours!” </b>- 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 href="http://mrrrgn.com/glowing-guacamole">mrrrgn.com/glowing-guacamole </a></p> <p><b><a href="http://twitter.com/gaba">Gabriela Rodriguez Beron</a> - “Coders in the Newsroom”</b> - What does a coder in the newsroom do? Which kind of tools do we develop? Is this exciting or/and stress inducing? </p> <p><b><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/shaelynwatson">Shaelyn Watson</a> - “Implementing Design with React Components”</b> - We will implement a design using React components, demo-ing how to break down a design into logical presentational components.</p> <p><strong><strong><em> More speakers TBA. </em></strong></strong></p> <p><b>Who Should Attend? </b></p> <p>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">Code of Conduct</a>.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Portland/events/230446085/">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>