Vadio

Join us for happy hour at Vadio! Come network and have fun! We will have a short segment at 5:30, which includes:

• Introduction to Vadio

• Hear from our Entrepreneur Spotlight Kathryn Brown from Scout Savvy

• Lightning talk from Angela Kienholz called "The candid truth about entrepreneurship". She will give us some key insights for taking the plunge.

Make sure you say hi to Barb Stark. She is the Office Manager at Vadio! Read our June newsletter to learn more about Barb.

PDX Women in Tech exists to celebrate professional women in the Portland-metro area who work with, manage, lead or have an interest in technology. Whether you are developing event-driven, non-blocking applications in node.js or setting technology strategy for a Fortune 500 company - or anything in between - come join us!

All attendees of the event must adhere to the PDXWIT Code of Conduct.

The IndieWeb movement is a global community that is building an open set of principles and methods that empower people to take back ownership of identity and data instead of sharecropping on 3rd party websites.

Join us in downtown Portland for two days of a BarCamp-style gathering of web creators building and sharing open web technologies to empower users to own their own identities & content, and advance the state of the indie web!

You’ll learn about ways to empower yourself to own your data, create and publish content on your own site, and only optionally syndicate to third-party silos. Along the way you’ll get a solid grounding in the history and future of Microformats, domain ownership, IndieAuth, Webmention, Micropub and more!

A conference celebrating the creative, original, static (no backend) web sites, both old and new, that stand the test of time.

It's time to rediscover and bring back the lost art of web site creation. Let's build some weird, interesting, quirky web sites!

21 October 2015 — Doors at 6pm, Talk at 6:15pm

Our Topic

With this new surge of bootcamp graduates and career changers gone tech, we’ve found ourselves with an interesting conundrum - there is so much talent out there, but these new candidates are "just too green." Employers are often concerned about the costs of on-boarding junior developers. Meanwhile, knowledgable, enthusiastic, and bright junior candidates are chomping at the bit, waiting for their opportunity to be recognized for their unique talents.

This talk will explore pieces to the puzzle that will help transform this new influx of juniors from "green" to "lean, mean, coding machines," consequently making them invaluable members of your team. However, this can only be accomplished if both parties are equally invested in the process.

Our speaker, Amy Vaillancourt-Sals

A professional-musician-turned-developer, Amy graduated from Epicodus (a Portland-based programming bootcamp) and landed a job at ThinkShout where she builds creative web solutions for non-profit organizations. Previous work includes being a community relations specialist for the online music tech companies, Discogs and Bandcamp. When she’s not coding, or actively striving to make the world a better place, she can be found swinging from a high-flying trapeze, or kiteboarding down the Columbia river.