Participants will get to submit pull requests to beginner friendly projects! There will be mentors to do pair programming with!

Schedule:

6:30-7:00 - Dinner, intro, & meet & greet

7:00-7:15 - Intro & project remarks

7:15-9:30 - Break off in groups (by project) & work We'll be featuring the same projects from our last event so that people can gain more experience with those projects!

We'll be featuring the same projects from our last event so that people can gain more experience with those projects!

Speaker:

Getting Unstuck: Using the Scientific Method for Debugging by Caroline Taymor (@CarolineTaymor)
Have you ever gotten really stuck while trying to understand the cause of a bug? Thinking of your debugging session as a science experiment, & using the scientific method can help you make progress again. Come & learn how to adapt the scientific method (the process used for scientific research) to get past that stuck place & find the cause of bugs or production incidents. Youll walk away with a great new tool to keep you calm & focused in the face of inevitable bugs.

Caroline Taymor is a software engineer with a passion for making operations less painful. Caroline is currently building the Cloudfoundry container scheduler. Caroline loves exploring the tools & processes that can make us better developers & make building software less painful. When not thinking about software & how we build it, Caroline studies Talmud & paints abstract hypersaturated watercolor paintings.

Featured Projects:

if meis an open source, not-for-profit mental health communication app to encourage people to talk about their experiences with loved ones. Our project is built & maintained by contributors many backgrounds & skill sets, not just technical folks.Starting conversations about mental health in immigrant & minority communities is important to us. We've translated our app to Spanish, Portuguese, & Swedish. Our tech stack includes Ruby on Rails, React, Postgres, jQuery, HTML, & SCSS. Check out our READMEandCONTRIBUTING.md to get started! We're also one of the Rails Girls Summer of Code projects this year!

Mentor: Julia Nguyen

CodeBuddiesis a community of independent code learners who enjoy sharing knowledge & helping each other learn faster. We built an open-sourced community-built platform that lets users schedule google hangouts to study, teach, or pair program together. The app is built using MeteorJS (HTML, SCSS, jQuery, Blaze), & our community is active on Slack. Please check out our README & contributing.md to get started if you'd like to contribute!

Mentor: Linda Peng

The AMP projectis an open source initiative to improve the mobile web experience for everyone by enabling the creation of websites & ads that are consistently fast, beautiful & high-performing across devices & distribution platforms. Since launching in early 2016, AMP has continued to grow. It now has more than 400 contributors & is used by 2 billion AMP documents with 35 million+ new AMP documents per week. Check out ourwebsiteto learn more about AMP & get started.

Mentor: Yuxuan Zhou

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Thank you Mapbox SF for hosting this meetup!

Thank you Indiegogo & Slack for sponsoring!

This meetup is for women & non-binary coders only.