{"id":1484,"date":"2018-09-14T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.la.wordcamp.org\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2018-09-17T10:18:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T17:18:55","slug":"lightning-talks-with-learn-teach-code-presented-by-twilio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2018\/lightning-talks-with-learn-teach-code-presented-by-twilio\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Talks with Learn Teach Code presented by Twilio"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

This year at WordCamp, we are excited to announce a special event in partnership with Learn Teach Code<\/strong>, the largest learning-focused tech meetup in SoCal, with over 8,000 members in LA! <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

On Sunday afternoon at 1:30pm in the developer track, 16 speakers<\/strong> will talk for 3 minutes each<\/strong> on a wide variety of tech topics: everything from how they learned to code, to geospatial mapping software, game development, and much more.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The line-up for the lightning talks will be:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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  1. Getting started with webVR (Aframe)<\/strong> \u2013 Alex Edward Ball <\/li>\r\n
  2. Active Listening<\/strong> \u2013 Amit Routh<\/li>\r\n
  3. First Timers: Automating contributor issues on GitHub<\/strong> \u2013 Angelica Gonzalez<\/li>\r\n
  4. CDNs: Optimize You Site With Faster Content<\/strong> \u2013 Cameron Manavian<\/li>\r\n
  5. FLIPping Awesome Animations<\/strong> \u2013 Edward Ulick<\/li>\r\n
  6. Programming Power Up!<\/strong> \u2013 Glenn Cravens<\/li>\r\n
  7. Taking A Leap and Breaking Boundaries<\/strong> \u2013 Jane Aileen Manavian<\/li>\r\n
  8. How East Los Angeles College Changed My Life\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Lisa Watanabe<\/li>\r\n
  9. Learning a New Language: JavaScript<\/strong> \u2013 Luiz “MICHAEL” Lopez\u00a0<\/li>\r\n
  10. How baking helped me learn to code<\/strong> \u2013 Michelle Brenner<\/li>\r\n
  11. Productivity: Completing Technical Tasks with Deliberate Work<\/strong> \u2013 MoJen Jenkins<\/li>\r\n
  12. Under the Hood of My Laptop, Literally<\/strong> \u2013 Natalie Vindivich<\/li>\r\n
  13. How to Choose an Open-Source License<\/strong> \u2013 Sean Marquez<\/li>\r\n
  14. What I Learned from 300+ Days of Algorithm Challenges<\/strong> \u2013 Tinuola Awopetu<\/li>\r\n
  15. Where is LAX, anyway? Entity mapping and geospatial data engineering in the wild.<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Valerie Burchby<\/li>\r\n
  16. Flex(box) Your CSS Muscles<\/strong> \u2013 Wendy Gwo<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    About Learn Teach Code<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    Learn Teach Code has the largest learning-focused tech meetup in SoCal, with over 8,000 members in LA and another chapter in Seoul, South Korea. Our mission is to create a more diverse tech community by empowering both aspiring and professional developers to lead their own local tech events, where anyone (especially beginners) can learn and teach together.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/LearnTeachCode\/<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    About Twilio<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    More than 2 million developers around the world have used Twilio to unlock the magic of communications to improve any human experience. Twilio has democratized communications channels like voice, text, chat, and video by virtualizing the world\u2019s telecommunications infrastructure through APIs that are simple enough for any developer to use, yet robust enough to power the world\u2019s most demanding applications. By making communications a part of every software developer’s toolkit, Twilio is enabling innovators across every industry \u2014 from emerging leaders to the world\u2019s largest organizations \u2014 to reinvent how companies engage with their customers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    Visit Twilio’s Website<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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