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In this ver. @csell5 talks to @likeOMGitsFEDAY about her relentless effort building a stronger community in Kansas City. 

Jennifer is often described as a force of nature, Jennifer is a JavaScript developer, speaker, foodie, fitness geek, and community organizer most well known for her work creating innovative and highly sought-after programs for women in technology.

She is widely known for her work in the Kansas City community, and in 2013 founded Kansas City Women in Technology, a 501(c)(3) organization to help grow the number of women in technology careers in Kansas City. She built numerous coding programs from the ground up to support KCWiT's mission, including CoderDojoKC, Coding & Cupcakes, Coding & Cocktails, and the Kansas City Django Girls workshop. She has worked tirelessly to build a robust and thriving network of women in technology through creating learning, volunteering, mentoring, speaking, and leadership opportunities for the those in her community.

You can find Jennifer at:

• https://jenniferwadella.com/
• https://twitter.com/likeOMGitsFEDAY

In this ver. @csell5 talks to @jlengstorf about this notion of “work life balance”. Look his beard fell out and that’s just wrong.

Jason Lengstorf is a developer, architect, occasional designer, and frequent speaker. He’s passionate about building tools, systems, and training materials to create high-performance teams and apps. He later encourages those teams to use their newfound free time to go outside and be people and stuff. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

You can find Jason at:

• https://lengstorf.com
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlengstorf/
• https://facebook.com/jlengstorf
• https://github.com/jlengstorf
• htttps://twitter.com/jlengstorf

Links mentioned in the show:

• https://gatsbyjs.com
• https://www.zenhub.com/
• http://danger.systems/js/
• https://www1.brain.fm/

In this ver. Clark talks with Chris about the current state of our web culture, accessibility on the web and well a few angle brackets.

Chris DeMars is a UI developer first, UX architect always, working out of Detroit, Michigan. Chris is also an instructor, teacher assistant, and volunteer for the Ann Arbor chapter of Girl Develop It and co-organizer for the Ann Arbor Accessibility Group. Chris loves coming up with solutions for enterprise applications, which include modular CSS architectures, performance, and advocating for web accessibility. When he is not working on making the web great and inclusive you can find him writing blog posts, recording episodes of his podcast, Tales From The Script, watching horror movies, drinking the finest of beers, or in the woods of northern Michigan.

You can find out more about Chris here: http://chrisdemars.com.

In this ver. @csell5 talks to @matthewmcnew about software team culture. Does the team dynamic really influence the outcome of a product?  Pro-tip, of course it does.

Matthew is a software engineer at Pivotal Labs. You can find more about Matthew here:

GitHub - https://github.com/matthewmcnew 

Twitter - https://twitter.com/matthewmcnew 

In this ver. @csell5 talks to @dahlbys about code and kids. We explore the current state of computer science in schools, the effects of code.org and just riff about kids.

Samantha Dahlby is a recovering software engineer with passions for public transportation, kids, and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math). She currently works at the New Bohemian Innovation Collaborative (NewBoCo), a nonprofit in Cedar Rapids, as the K-12 Education Coordinator. Samantha has two young daughters, and has learned to enjoy watching them tear apart *most* things in the name of curiosity.

Find Samantha at:

• https://twitter.com/dahlbys
• https://newbo.co

In this ver. @csell5 talks to @saragibby about women. This is just the start of many conversations to come about supporting women in tech, fostering a better workplace and community.

Sara has 20 years in software engineering worked across the county, different industries as employee and consultant. Once leader of a Girl Develop It chapter, now founder/facilitator of Girls Who Code club while working as Director of Engineering for Quikly.

Find Sara at:

http://saragibby.com 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/saragibby/ 

https://twitter.com/saragibby 

In this ver. @csell5 talks to @faziodev about the current state of ai assistants. Really, how different are these platforms, are they even useful yet, dare we say smart? Will they ever be? Warning, mute Alexa or toilet paper will be purchased.

Fazio is a Senior Software Engineer with Skyline Technologies, where he helps clients solve all kinds of problems in the web, mobile, and cloud spaces. Fazio is also an organizing committee member for Chicago Code Camp and Milwaukee Code Camp, as well as a presenter at user groups, code camps, and That Conference. Fazio has a love of all things mobile, voice assistants, JavaScript, and REST APIs. Outside of technology, he's always up for a chat about board games, video games, baseball, and late-90s metal bands.

Links mentioned in the show:

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html

In this ver. @csell5 talks with @docondev about software teams, company culture and it’s effect on delivery.

Doc Norton is a software delivery professional working to make the world of software development a better place. His experience covers a wide range of development topics. Doc declares expertise in no single language or methodology and is immediately suspicious of anyone who declares such expertise.

Doc writes regularly on topics related to software delivery, management, and leadership. You can find his musings at www.docondev.com, www.wearecto2.com/blog, and www.leanpub.com/escapevelocity

A frequent and well rated international speaker, Doc is passionate about helping others become better developers, working with teams to improve delivery, and building great organizations. In his role at CTO2, Doc is provided opportunities to realize his passion every day.

• http://www.docondev.com/
• http://twitter.com/docondev

In this ver. @csell5 talks to @codefoster about his boat. Jeremy and crew are taking IOT to the ocean, making his sail boat a smart boat. All you need is a little Raspberry Pi and 5v! #THATConference and #AskTHAT.

Jeremy is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft in what we call the Commercial Software Engineering group, and I do a lot of presentations. I always say, the only thing I like more than writing code is talking about writing code. You’ve likely heard it said that the best way to learn is to teach, and that couldn’t be more true than with technical topics.

You can find Jeremy at http://codefoster.com.

In this ver. @csell5 talks to @jackkoppa about getting involved in open source. Well really it quickly turns into talking about getting involved in open efforts. Something near and dear to #THATConference and #AskTHAT.

Jack is a Front-End Web Developer at SafeNet Consulting, who stumbled into software while studying environmental science & Chinese. Combining those three interests has led him to live in Shanghai, work on clean tech web apps, and contribute to an open-source air quality project; he's at his most excited when finding some helpful way to apply career-related skills. Though he's also pretty excited when discussing SpaceX. Currently working mostly with Angular 4+, TypeScript, Azure, and C#; dabbling in Node, React, and Next.

Find Jack at:

• GitHub - https://github.com/jackkoppa
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/jackpkoppa

Efforts Mentioned in Today's Show:

• OpenAQ - https://openaq.org
• OpenAQ Slack - https://openaq-slackin.herokuapp.com/
• Feedbot - Slack app for informal feedback - https://github.com/SafeNetConsulting-Milwaukee/feedbot