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GitHub / GitHub Presents • Passion Projects LIVE (Full Length Talks)

These are all the meetings we have in "GitHub Presents • Pa…" (part of the organization "GitHub"). Click into individual meeting pages to watch the recording and search or read the transcript.

11 Mar 2014

The 11th episode of the Passion Projects Live series, featuring Laura Gluhanich. Laura has designed, built and shipped community, support and content strategies at companies like about.me and Ning. She recently co-founded SignalCamp, where she manages strategic marketing and community programs for tech startups of all ages and sizes. Her expertise ranges from product launches to copywriting and content calendars to scaling a team supporting 30 million users. You can find Laura on Twitter.

SignalCamp (http://signalcamp.com)
Laura on Twitter (https://twitter.com/LauraGlu)

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  • 8 participants
  • 55 minutes
passion
lauraglu
speakers
cheers
users
personable
webinars
thanks
julie
github
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20 Jan 2014

The 10th episode of the Passion Projects Live series, featuring Dana McCallum. Dana is a senior engineer at Twitter, co-founder of Lambda Ladies, and a licensed commercial pilot. She was the lead engineer on Twitter's API for two years, helped create Twitter's advertiser API, and now works on social graph infrastructure. As an advocate for women in engineering and the LGBT community Dana has helped create advocacy teams at Twitter and other companies, and served as a delegate on women's issues in India with the U.S. Department of State. You can find Dana on GitHub and Twitter.

Twitter (https://twitter.com)
Lambda Ladies (http://www.lambdaladies.com)
Dana on GitHub (https://github.com/DanaDanger)
Dana on Twitter (https://twitter.com/DanaDanger)

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About GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Millions of people use GitHub to build amazing things together. For more info, go to http://github.com
  • 6 participants
  • 59 minutes
exciting
welcoming
audience
cheering
thanks
passion
julie
twitter
personally
coworkers
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8 Jan 2014

The 9th episode of the Passion Projects Live series, featuring Melissa Severini. Melissa was GitHub's first employee and led business operations for its first four years of life. She's an incredible generalist and co-founded Org Org, tech's first community for organization organizers. Along with being its first employee, Melissa held down the fort as GitHub's first ever Lady Hubber. Her strengths lie in her ability to organize and inspire people and being prepared in the event of every emergency, no matter how big or small. You can find Melissa on GitHub and Twitter.

GitHub (https://github.com)
OrgOrg (http://www.organizationorganizers.com)
Melissa on GitHub (https://github.com/luckiestmonkey)
Melissa on Twitter (https://twitter.com/luckiestmonkey)

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About GitHub
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  • 2 participants
  • 1:06 hours
julie
githubbers
enjoy
cheering
melissa
exciting
awesomely
passion
welcoming
volunteers
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16 Dec 2013

The 7th episode of the Passion Projects Live series, featuring Jen Myers. Jen is a web designer and developer and part of the instructor team at Dev Bootcamp in Chicago. In 2011, she founded the Columbus, Ohio chapter of Girl Develop It, an org that provides intro coding classes aimed at women, and currently co-leads the Girl Develop It Chicago chapter. Jen speaks regularly about design, development and diversity, and focuses on finding new ways to make both technology and technology education accessible to everyone. You can find Jen Myers on GitHub, Twitter, and on her personal site.

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About GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Millions of people use GitHub to build amazing things together. For more info, go to http://github.com
  • 6 participants
  • 60 minutes
julie
talking
speakers
questioners
personality
introductory
attendee
women
apprehensive
designy
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16 Dec 2013

The 8th episode of the Passion Projects Live series, featuring Ligaya Tichy. Ligaya loves the early stages of startups. She launched new markets for Yelp in their early days, built the Airbnb community from the ground up, and now advises and invests in a number of wonderful companies such as Skillshare, Threadflip, and Microryza. You can find Ligaya on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ligayaya

Yelp - http://yelp.com
AirBnb - https://airbnb.com
Skillshare - http://skillshare.com
Threadflip - http://threadflip.com
Microryza - https://microryza.com

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About GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Millions of people use GitHub to build amazing things together. For more info, go to http://github.com
  • 6 participants
  • 1:20 hours
ligaya
julie
hosting
thanks
personally
yay
passion
git
skillshare
speakers
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12 Dec 2013

The 6th episode of the Passion Projects live series, featuring Leslie Bradshaw. Leslie is a passionate entrepreneur, social scientist, data-driven storyteller, and farmer. In addition to serving as the Chief Operating Officer of Guide, she's a Fellow at the US Chamber of Commerce where she explores the economic and policy implications of big data, technology, and entrepreneurship. She started the data visualization company JESS3 at the age of 24. Leslie now advises storytelling agencies and data visualization startups in her spare time, is a regular contributor at Forbes and has been recognized by Fast Company as one of The Most Creative People in Business.

http://gui.de
http://jess3.com
http://fastcompany.com/3009220/most-creative-people-2013/99-100-hilary-mason-leslie-bradshaw

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About GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Millions of people use GitHub to build amazing things together. For more info, go to http://github.com
  • 5 participants
  • 1:12 hours
talks
exciting
interview
leslie
visionary
people
project
thanks
techcrunch
stage
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18 Jul 2013

The 5th episode of the Passion Projects series, featuring Jessica Hische. Jessica is known for her personal projects Daily Drop Cap and the Should I Work for Free? flowchart as well as her work for clients like Wes Anderson, Penguin Books, and Google. She is currently serving on the Type Directors Club board of directors, has traveled the world speaking about lettering and illustration, and has probably consumed enough coffee to power a small nation.

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About GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Millions of people use GitHub to build amazing things together. For more info, go to http://github.com
  • 2 participants
  • 1:15 hours
personality
conversation
jessica
masturbate
procrastinating
bathroom
fancy
hosting
project
bitching
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3 Jul 2013

The 4th episode of the Passion Projects series, featuring Sara Chipps. Sara is the CTO of Levo League, where she focuses on developer happiness as a metric for success. In 2010, she co-founded Girl Develop It because she thinks that the development community could use a few more ladies.

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About GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Millions of people use GitHub to build amazing things together. For more info, go to http://github.com
  • 2 participants
  • 53 minutes
julie
bots
women
mentors
conversations
guys
hosting
hi
github
contributor
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10 Jun 2013

Our 3rd Passion Projects talk, recorded live with Timoni West. Timoni is a Brooklyn-based designer currently working on UX at Foursquare. Before that, she freelanced with amazing startups around the country including Bitly, Lift, Airtime, Flickr, Causes, and Recollect. Like many web designers, she splits her time between product design, user experience, and implementation, and her heart belongs to all three.

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About GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Millions of people use GitHub to build amazing things together. For more info, go to http://github.com
  • 8 participants
  • 1:07 hours
timoni
thanks
keynotes
speakers
audience
exciting
talks
julie
project
san
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5 May 2013

Part 2 of our Passion Projects series, featuring a live talk with Heather Arthur. Heather is an engineer at Mozilla in San Francisco, where she works on Firefox developer tools. In her spare time, Heather creates and maintains her share of awesome open source projects.

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About GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Millions of people use GitHub to build amazing things together. For more info, go to http://github.com
  • 5 participants
  • 47 minutes
robots
webworkers
mozilla
discussion
sophisticated
programmers
twitter
github
alyssa
wanna
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28 Mar 2013

Part 1 of our Passion Projects series, featuring a live talk with Rachel Myers. Rachel is a Rubyist currently stationed at ModCloth, Inc. She's an open source enthusiast who volunteers with the non-profit organization Railsbridge to teach (more) women to code. She'll also be giving the keynote at RubyConf in Scotland this year.

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About GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Millions of people use GitHub to build amazing things together. For more info, go to http://github.com
  • 4 participants
  • 51 minutes
passionprojects
github
project
enjoy
volunteers
rachel
programmers
rsvp
host
podcasts
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