AiA 188: ngGirls Part 2 with Shmuela Jacobs

Panel: 

Charles Max Wood
Alyssa Nicoll
Joe Eames

Special Guests: Shmuela Jacobs

In this episode of Adventures in Angular, the panel talks to Shmuela Jacobs about ngGirls. Shmuela founded ngGirls, which is an organization where they try to increase diversity in tech, and it is mainly focused towards Angular. This is because she loves Angular and feels that it is a good platform to start with because of its simplicity. They talk about how she came up with the idea for ngGirls, how the company works, and stress the incredibly helpful nature of the Angular community. 

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Shmuela intro
Angular and ngGirls
The Angular community
How the workshop works
Free workshop run by volunteers
Going to be at Google I/O
How did you come up with ngGirls?
Django girls
Women Who Code
Great experience with Django girls
Wanted a company geared towards Angular
The tutorial was written by the community
How much people in the Angular community want to help
Angular JS
Still so much to learn in Angular
People taking over
Workshops happen all over the world
The company allows for other people to organize the workshops themselves
Is ngGirls growing beyond you?
Plans to start more with helping to guide others as the company grows
Creating more activities for more experienced women or different ages
And much, much more!

Links:  

ngGirls
Angular
Google I/O
Django girls
Angular JS
@ShmuelaJ
Shmuela’s GitHub

Picks:

Charles

Google Drive
ScanSnap S1300i

Joe

ngConf
Role Playing Games

Shmuela

ngConf YouTube
Super Powered, Server Rendered Progressive Native Apps - Nathan Walker & Jeff Whelpley
Schematics: Generating custom Angular Code with the CLI by Manfred Steyer