 Cool. Hey everyone, can you hear me okay if I speak at this volume? Yes, good so My name is Gabe Hollenby A little about myself before I spend the rest of the time telling you what you really want to hear I'm a principal engineer at a place called Pivotal Labs We are a company that helps all kinds of other companies build custom software of all sorts front-end stuff back-end stuff Mobile apps the whole shebang I've been programming for a long time 15 years professionally a little bit more than that in total I'm also a hobbyist game developer. I've built one game so far available for iOS and Android It's really fun, but I'm not even gonna plug it here But if you're interested in knowing about my gaming talking about it later, I love teaching my favorite part about my job Is actually not even the coding. It's all of the time I get to spend with the junior engineers helping them get better at what they do I've discovered that's what I feel most rewarded by so far in my career, and I hope to do more of that You know for the rest of my life That's also why I'm up here tonight, right? I think that like Lysha said we have a serious problem We need more women in the tech community and instead of just lamenting that fact I wanted to be part of the solution So I said what better way than to vote with my own personal time and give time back to you guys So I hope that You guys are all interested in this program and you'll stick with it and apply after doing all of the workshops I love sushi. It's my favorite food and my favorite movie is the princess bride So they know a little about me so We're gonna be working with months rescue. That's the NGO that I've been assigned with They're not here to talk to you tonight. It's actually testament to the fact that they're super busy, right? They're actually out there Rescuing dogs right now. So I'm here to talk to you for them. I spent some time I got to know the two ladies who lead it and I'll do my best to represent What they're all about right now So what Mets much rescue does is basically they are adjusting the problem of there's too many stray dogs out there And the government doesn't do a lot of help To take care of the problem and the problem is obviously not like just get rid of the stray dogs I mean if you're if you're humane and you're interested in taking care of dogs So what they want to do is educate the community to have more compassion for strays To employ ethical and humane practices and to establish healthy population control Through a few different techniques, right? One of them is to do it like trap neuter and release But besides that the other thing they can do is They do feeding and boarding, right? So this is I'm gonna show you this is like the least happy slide I have but some some dogs that they can't catch they'll actually go and put out food for them And dogs that they have caught that they haven't found homes for yet They have to board so they can find homes, right? Obviously all of this stuff requires money and it takes a lot of logistics and so They I talked with them for a while and found out that the thing they need the most help with is actually adoption a Little bit just in general message from them Here's some pictures of puppies I feel like I have an unfair advantage because I have cute animals in my slide deck and these are all animals from Mets rescue So these two cute little puppies were both rescued. These are both successful adoptions So there's the the puppy picture and they're sort of young adult pictures They both had a very infectious disease called Parva virus Which is something that most puppies get vaccinated for when they're born, but obviously strays don't get vaccinated So not only do they just like try and catch like healthy dogs But they also do everything they can to catch the strays and if they need help nurse them back to health So here's two happy success stories Here's another look at his before and after he's just the cutest little thing. I love I love this I could just look at puppy pictures all day and if you end up working with me We can actually go and like play with the puppies too, right? So anyway In general, how can you help if you're interested in this not just by Becoming part of tech ladies and helping me build something for them But in general all of you whether or not you even join Well, you should adopt right if any of you are looking if you'd like to get a puppy definitely talk to much rescue They're great super coincidence. I didn't even know this after I got hooked up with Mets rescue I noticed that a friend of mine had liked them on Facebook and I put two and two together and realized my friend had Adopted a puppy about a week before she got her puppy through Mets rescue So small world small country, but they're obviously doing good work. I thought that was a cool coincidence Okay, so if you can't adopt you should foster right so if you don't want to adopt full-time Maybe you can take care of a puppy in your house and tell somebody else can find it's forever home You can't foster you can donate right taking care of all these trays costs a lot of money And they're always accepting donations through Facebook if you can't donate you could at least share their posts on Facebook with your friends So you can find them on Facebook at Mets rescue. So just look for that So onto the interesting stuff. How are tech ladies going to help? So their biggest problem is organizing and managing the process of adoption right now They're doing everything through Facebook Facebook wasn't designed to handle like dog adoption process so the biggest problem that happens is You go on Facebook and Mets rescue and you see all these cute puppies and you're like, oh my god, that one's really cute I'm looking for a puppy. I'm falling in love immediately And maybe you don't even realize that puppies already found up been found at home because you have to like read all The comments and say oh this puppy is no longer available So we want to make it easier for the the Mets rescue Organizers to keep track of all the puppies that are available What state they're in if it's someone's with foster care if a dog's looking for a home and boarding whatever and Make it easy for the public to come in and see all that information and get hooked up Quickly and easily so I have a couple. Sorry As a phone, okay, I have a few mock-ups to share you real quickly. They're just mock-ups There's no promise that this is exactly what we're gonna build but they're based on a conversation I had with them and they said that the slides looked good. So we'll make a homepage with just some general info Those X's by the way are placeholders for images. You probably figured it out But if you're not looking used to looking at tech mock-ups, that's kind of what they represent The more interesting stuff, right? We'll have a listing with all the dogs like their nickname some vital stats about them a picture and maybe some descriptions Then you could click on them and you could see more details most importantly lots of cute puppy pictures More stats more description and then also I think importantly Information about you know, what it takes to be a responsible dog adopter, right? What are your responsibilities going to be making sure that this is really something for you? On the back end, they need a way to manage all this content So we'll have some sort of like index dashboard where they can see all the dog They're currently trying to find homes for maybe sort by different attributes Keep track of which dogs are in foster care. Like I said or which dogs are certain boarding facilities And then obviously they need to be able to create and manage the details of each dog So we have some kind of form for that, you know, where they can enter all the text. They can upload photos They can change the status of them, etc. So that's the rough outline. We'll probably build something similar to that. I Promise if you work with tech ladies, these things three things are going to be true at times. You will be tired Learning to program is hard work. Okay, but you will learn a lot And most importantly, I promise that we'll have fun. So if you're excited I know it's not fair. So If this sounds cool to you, I hope you stick around do all the workshops make it to the end Let's do this. Thank you