Report: WTM meet-up
Meet-up report of 09 February 2018
The program started at exactly 10:50 am and the opening prayer was led by Adeniyi Olajumoke Muteeah.
Topic: HOLD THE DOOR OPEN presented by Patience Igbadia
The speaker gave a brief introduction on what "Holding the Door Open" means, that is to encourage each other and always helping one another.
For years, women have been told they don't network as well as men perhaps it's just that they didn't get the opportunity to network. Now after years of being told to keep out, women have taken charge by creating the opportunities themselves and holding the door open for each other.
Exemplary women includes:
1. Christiana Vuleta, Forbes staff
Tweeted this; "Everybody has a story to tell. An easy story doesn't help".
2. Bozoma Saint John, Chief Brand Officer of UBER
She said: " We need to change the way our environment looks, feels and behaves". And if UBER can do it, that proves anyone can!
She has never faced a turnaround as challenging as UBER with history of sexism, harassment and HR negligence. Yet she has no doubt she can pull of a transformation, saying; "clearly I am confident. I have done it before".
" I am holding the door open for other women to come through and it is so heavy ".
She said; " When I did the demo for Apple (at the world wide developers conference), I was the first black woman on stage and I felt the burden (to do well) because if I didn't, it would be harder for the next one".
3. Actress Taraji P. Henson spoke about supporting other women coming up. She believes that women can help each other tap into their power through sharing their stories. "I know how hard you've work to get there" said Henson. We need each other.
4. Anne Wojcicki, Cofounder of DNA testing company.
When a door doesn't open, find a new door. "We all have walls", she said. But I could see a world where those walls are different. Wojcicki also talked about the importance of mentoring, saying; " I think often times we are loud about things that are going wrong, but we don't do enough to encourage each other when there's something that has gone right".
Patience during her presentation
Android development and Web development platform also did a little coding on user interface. Report from a member of each platform:
Adedipe Oluwakemi Victoria (Android team): Today at the meet-up, we android beginners were able to build a User Interface which contains text views, edit-text and button.
From this, we were able to learn different things like linear layout and it's orientation, Relative layout and it's positioning, margin and padding, IDs, sp and dp.
Android team
Android app user interface
Abe Abimbola Opeyemi (Web team): At today's meet up, the web beginners group started a new project and learned about tags, head and body, different head size, paragraph. Then worked on how to input an image into the webpage, they also learned on how to adjust the picture width, height, add margin and position it rightly.
Web team
Web page user interface
Olayinka Peter (Tech lead Gdg Eksu) also gave a speech, he talked about the importance of women in technology are large and also people are hungry to see Ladies do great stuff. "Be technologically inclined" and "Be valuable" he said. And also reminded and encouraged us to register for GDG Eksu cloud study jams coming up February 23rd and 24th. Link to register: bit.ly/cloudeksu
We should also opt in to be a facilitator for the study jams. Link to register: bit.ly/cloudeksufacilitator
Peter during his speech
We also discussed about the upcoming IWD event, diverse ideas were shared towards this upcoming event... Watched inspiring and motivating videos from Women Techmakers. Visit for more info www.womentechmakers.com
A meetup link was created on and we all registered to the link. Join Gdg Eksu meetup group by clicking on the link below
www.meetup.com/gdg-eksu/
More pictures:
Learning with fun
Stickers and a souvenir was distributed
Reported by: Adeola Bankole
Quote for the week: Let your light so shine from your little corner and don't hesitate to hold the door for others.
The program started at exactly 10:50 am and the opening prayer was led by Adeniyi Olajumoke Muteeah.
Topic: HOLD THE DOOR OPEN presented by Patience Igbadia
The speaker gave a brief introduction on what "Holding the Door Open" means, that is to encourage each other and always helping one another.
For years, women have been told they don't network as well as men perhaps it's just that they didn't get the opportunity to network. Now after years of being told to keep out, women have taken charge by creating the opportunities themselves and holding the door open for each other.
Exemplary women includes:
1. Christiana Vuleta, Forbes staff
Tweeted this; "Everybody has a story to tell. An easy story doesn't help".
2. Bozoma Saint John, Chief Brand Officer of UBER
She said: " We need to change the way our environment looks, feels and behaves". And if UBER can do it, that proves anyone can!
She has never faced a turnaround as challenging as UBER with history of sexism, harassment and HR negligence. Yet she has no doubt she can pull of a transformation, saying; "clearly I am confident. I have done it before".
" I am holding the door open for other women to come through and it is so heavy ".
She said; " When I did the demo for Apple (at the world wide developers conference), I was the first black woman on stage and I felt the burden (to do well) because if I didn't, it would be harder for the next one".
3. Actress Taraji P. Henson spoke about supporting other women coming up. She believes that women can help each other tap into their power through sharing their stories. "I know how hard you've work to get there" said Henson. We need each other.
4. Anne Wojcicki, Cofounder of DNA testing company.
When a door doesn't open, find a new door. "We all have walls", she said. But I could see a world where those walls are different. Wojcicki also talked about the importance of mentoring, saying; " I think often times we are loud about things that are going wrong, but we don't do enough to encourage each other when there's something that has gone right".
Android development and Web development platform also did a little coding on user interface. Report from a member of each platform:
Adedipe Oluwakemi Victoria (Android team): Today at the meet-up, we android beginners were able to build a User Interface which contains text views, edit-text and button.
From this, we were able to learn different things like linear layout and it's orientation, Relative layout and it's positioning, margin and padding, IDs, sp and dp.
Abe Abimbola Opeyemi (Web team): At today's meet up, the web beginners group started a new project and learned about tags, head and body, different head size, paragraph. Then worked on how to input an image into the webpage, they also learned on how to adjust the picture width, height, add margin and position it rightly.
Olayinka Peter (Tech lead Gdg Eksu) also gave a speech, he talked about the importance of women in technology are large and also people are hungry to see Ladies do great stuff. "Be technologically inclined" and "Be valuable" he said. And also reminded and encouraged us to register for GDG Eksu cloud study jams coming up February 23rd and 24th. Link to register: bit.ly/cloudeksu
We should also opt in to be a facilitator for the study jams. Link to register: bit.ly/cloudeksufacilitator
We also discussed about the upcoming IWD event, diverse ideas were shared towards this upcoming event... Watched inspiring and motivating videos from Women Techmakers. Visit for more info www.womentechmakers.com
A meetup link was created on and we all registered to the link. Join Gdg Eksu meetup group by clicking on the link below
www.meetup.com/gdg-eksu/
More pictures:
Stickers and a souvenir was distributed
Reported by: Adeola Bankole
Quote for the week: Let your light so shine from your little corner and don't hesitate to hold the door for others.
Good job guys
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