Sara Chipps talks with Dave Rael about growing up with computers as a source of friends, being a founder, building things that matter, and women in technology
Sara Chipps is a JavaScript developer based in NYC. She has been working on Software and the Open Source Community since 2001. She’s been obsessed with hardware and part of http://Nodebots.com since 2012. She is the CEO of http://Jewelbots.com, a company dedicated towards drastically changing the number of girls entering STEM fields using hardware. She was formerly the CTO of http://FlatironSchool.com, a school dedicated to teaching people of all ages how to build software and launch careers as software developers. In 2010 she cofounded Girl Develop It, a non-profit focused on helping more women become software developers. Girl Develop It is in 45 cities, and has taught over 17,000 women how to build software.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Sara Chipps
- - Sara's remarkable story of a great deal accomplishment in a short time
- - JewelBots - The friendship bracelet for the Smartphone era
- - Sara's history of using software and technology to make friends
- - Sara and women in technology
- - JewelBots and accessibility for young girls
- - Sara's definition of value
- - The things that "light Sara up" - being a maker
- - Sara's story of failure - damaged hardware making a demonstration unworkable
- - Sara's greatest success - Choreographed keynote - kids and dancing drones
- - How Sara stays current with what she needs to know
- - The things that have Sara most excited
- - The greatest sources of pain in Sara's life and work
- - The things about which Sara likes to geek out apart from software
- - Sara's prediction for the future of software
- - Sara's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Sara
Resources:
- Sara's New Blogging Home on Medium
- Sara's Blog (replaced recently by Medium)
- JewelBots
- Sara's Blog Post About Her Start in Open Source Software
- RailsConf 2015 Day 1 Closing Keynote - Dancing Drones
- Richard Campbell on Developer On Fire
- The Freelancers' Show - Leadership and Management
- Woody Zuill on Developer On Fire
- Jeff Atwood - Sucking Less Every Year
Sara's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Don't get discouraged by failure
- Break things up into discreet chunks you can deliver
- Show people early and often and let go of needing to be perfect