Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/CoralineAda"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coraline Ada Ehmke</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/jessitron"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jessica Kerr</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ianthro"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Astrid Countee</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b> <a href="https://twitter.com/jeromehardaway"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jerome Hardaway<br> </span></a><a href="http://vetswhocode.io/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vets Who Code</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>00:16</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Welcome to “It’s Made of People!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”</span></p> <p><b>02:17</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Jerome’s Background and Origin Story</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://generalassemb.ly/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">General Assembly</span></a></p> <p><b>09:30</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – </span><a href="http://vetswhocode.io/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vets Who Code</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Funding, Technology Stack, Curriculum, and Students</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://googleyasheck.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">John Washam: Googley As Heck</span></a></p> <p><b>18:19</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Vets Who Code Student Experience</span></p> <p><b>20:00</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Obstacles Veterans Face Getting Into Tech</span></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Location</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Network</span></li> </ol> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">“Your goal is to only get 1% better every day and the funny thing about 1% is that your 1% changes every day.” <a href="https://twitter.com/JeromeHardaway">@JeromeHardaway</a></p> <p>— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) <a href="https://twitter.com/greaterthancode/status/811660953062232064">December 21, 2016</a></p> </blockquote> <p></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/vets-who-code/learning-code-with-kids-4ed8178f88c#.e9hiwews8"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jacob Oakley: Learning Code with Kids</span></a></p> <p><b>29:04</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Making the Tech Community More Welcoming to Veterans</span></p> <p><b>33:37</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – What should people in the tech community NOT do?</span></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Don’t Assume</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Recognize Women Veterans</span></li> </ol> <p><b>36:55</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Getting Involved with Vets Who Code</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>We are (currently) listener supported!<br> Support us via </b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode"><b>Patreon</b></a><b>!<br> </b><b>Thank you, Wayne Robinson, for your support!</b></p> <p><b>38:09</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Evaluating Opportunities</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>“The AAR” aka Takeaways:</b></p> <p><b>Astrid: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Addressing emotional intelligence and increasing 1% each day.</span></p> <p><b>Jessica:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Using Ruby on Rails is a valuable resource for teaching people how to code.</span></p> <p><b>Coraline:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Time is life and life is also time. Don’t be married to the tool, be married to the problem.</span></p> <p><b>Jerome: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Be “Greater Than Code” and ask </span></p>
