 Video equipment rental costs paid for by peep code screencasts My name is Matthew Todd. There's my information URLs I have a bit of an idea to run by you. That's kind of odd It's also a work in progress, which is why I'm making my slides and text me So there's one more URL I have that I got a Couple years ago as of November 2006 I moved from Raleigh, North Carolina to Moshe, Tanzania It's a tiny town at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro It's a wonderful story and there's a girl involved so Valerie and I were married around then November another thing about text made as you can make your slides executable so This will if it works take us in the Google Earth if you're Prone to vertigo close your eyes right now So this is Rapidly crashing in on where we are now and I think I got the pinprick in the right part of the building So after a second or two we're Zooming around the globe Africa. Here's Tanzania Dar es Salaam used to be the capital they moved it to Donoma to be more geographically central Nobody lives there. It's desert This small island is Zanzibar it's where Freddie Mercury was born That guy Right here by Lake Victoria issues the Serengeti Somewhere in that brown area. That's where you go on safari and see big animals This You see the white spot there on the border. That's Mount Kilimanjaro the highest mountain in Africa And convenient truth, you know the glaciers melting and all of that Right here is Moshe. That's that's where we live in fact right here is Where's my mouse where we live right that one? so So it's it's taken some getting used to It's about 8,000 miles from here So it's close that What's kind of come about living there trying to hang on to some semblance of a career there has been this this nice intersection of Finding local groups of people doing good things that need computer help, you know, they could use a small application and Finding that in the process of working for them There's maybe one or two Tanzanian programmers. I've met who are Still kind of getting their legs under them. We're learning how to do things and it's been a really good opportunity to pair with them Work together help them learn not just programming. We've done a lot of assistant men Linuxy kind of stuff It's been a good time Some of the organizations we've worked for there's a home for home for street children that my wife runs In the slide notes, which will be available Their URLs for all these places one that supports porters actually helping people show up all their stuff up the mountain Local hospital also I should come back in a minute This one guy joking I've been pairing with It's been it's been fun. We've been working together about six months and Best best moment ever was maybe a month or two ago. We're at the whiteboard writing something up and Joe came who says very little says to me, you know, Matthew that That seems like this blog post. I was reading the other day skinny controller that model and inside I was just like Some things happening Yeah, a good time So I'm pretty limited. I don't scale like as well as rails does And I've also found I'm pretty professionally lonely over there, you know, my wife doesn't think that XML jokes are really funny So So, I don't know. I'm just sort of tossing ideas around here, but it's a it's a fun place, you know So I don't know maybe some of you are in a position where you could you know, you're between gigs or Could take a few weeks off Come come climb the mountain come see something come pair with us for a couple weeks, you know, you would It's it's one very gray pixel, yeah Yeah, so you double my teaching capacity pairing with someone You could probably increase a little bit of our speed working for another organization here I have a few other thoughts But that's that's the gist of it other things Moshe has to offer are lots of board games if you're into said words of Gitan Beer that comes in 500 milliliter bottles for about 80 cents, so that's good Right so small teams we I can imagine really just for people working together is about all we could probably manage And you probably want to plan to program with us for a couple weeks if you were into this kind of thing Thank you Sometimes people come to volunteer in a place like this and they say we'll help dig a ditch or we'll help paint something That's that's good, but What we have is actually something to offer that people most People most we probably have a skill level higher than most Tanzania programmers do You have something that you can actually contribute that people there probably aren't able to do Yeah, this is yeah, you can read that later. So next actions if you're interested Can touch with me if you're marginally interested just want to see what might be happening subscribe to my blog I might post something about it And all this stuff is on github, so thanks video equipment rental costs paid for by peep code screencasts