Speaker's List Broward County

[RobDavis]

Short description of the idea (140 character tweet):

Find a special local speaker for your tech-related opportunities!

What is your project concept or idea? What challenge or opportunity will it solve?

This application was built to maintain a list of individuals interested in speaking at technology-related events in Broward County.

Who will benefit from your project? Describe the humans at the center of the problem - who are they?

How would they benefit? Can you tell their story?

Do you have photos of them? Or quotes?

Residents, local tech clubs, schools, organizations (i.e. Business, Conferences, etc.) that are trying to find a local tech speaker. Personal experience drove this project, as we've tried to find female speakers in Broward and had limited success.

Issue area(s) relevant to your project idea:

• Children & Youth
• Economic Opportunity & Development
• Education

What is the current state of your project idea?

• I have an idea or concept of a solution, but have not yet prototyped or tested it

Tell us more about the current state of your project idea.

Do you have any links to news articles, text, mockups, code, or data?

The Project is online, but needs updates.
Live: http://codeforftl.org/speakers-list/
Code: https://github.com/CodeForFtL/speakers-list

Tell us about yourself.

What is your background? Why is this challenge important to you?

Are you representing a group in submitting this project idea?

Inspired by http://wespeaktoo.org/, built by @kklumpp13

[rachdaup93]

I am interested in contributing to this project.

[yfrigi]

I am interested. I can speak on the Bail Project, Social Justice and Cybersecurity in plain English so anyone can understand.

[qtrandev]

Can anyone interested in being added to this list message me or post here the following information?

Name/Languages/Topics/Contact
Example: Speaker 1/React,Angular,Node/Front End Development, Responsive Design, Accessibility/speaker1@test.com

I can update http://codeforftl.org/speakers-list/ if needed.

[ryanvgates]

@kklumpp13 @yfrigi @rachdaup93 @qtrandev how's this project going? What would you want from new volunteers to help move the project forward?

[kklumpp13]

@ryanvgates I was just talking to a co-worker who is a React developer yesterday about working on this project together. The project currently isn't responsive or accessible, but that should be pretty straightforward to fix. I do have a question though. Back when I first set up the project, there was a discussion about using Firebase so we didn't have to manually update the speaker list. Are there any other recommendations now?