PT/EN: ALDA ROCHA - EMPODEREI, E AGORA?

[FagnerMartinsBrack]

I will try to subtitle this one to English for the folks in Sydney. Just opening the issue now to prevent duplicates 👍.

[FagnerMartinsBrack]

The talk is long, I will be translating to English a few minutes each week. Anyone that want to help is welcome, just post the next part as a comment so that I know where we're at.

It's probably better to send the subtitles directly to Youtube, just as it was done in #21, but for now, I will just be building the basic transcript here before uploading to Youtube.

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TRANSCRIPTION

Consultant and usability instructor, UX and UI designer,
web developer, front-end, graduated in information architecture
with more than 16 years of experience.
Besides being a developer,
Alda is engaged in causes related to woman and technology.
In her talk, Alda is gonna talk how to overcome barriers,
will show how essential is front-end, UX, and programming
in today's market.

I think should have come with a robe like this...
The whole introduction coming over from there and such.

Well folks, first of all
you have already stretched your legs, right?

You have "unsquared" - not even sure if that word exists - the butt,
so I don't know if you had moved a little bit.

It is alright there then, right?
Can I go for it, then?
Ok, then.

You don't know me, well the whole introduction looks like that kind of thing sort of Game of Thrones
like... Daenerys... Something like that, but that's me and I will like...
I will say something right now in the beginning.

First, don't bother regarding by breathing
I breathe through the mouth, I'm tense so you will hear a lot of...
Kind of Darth Vader but that's how it is, ok?

And when I started studying astronomy I had no idea,
it's like I started doing astronomy because I liked it and I had no idea
that after some time I would be in front of a piece of the moon.

So why am I saying this in the beginning of this talk?
It's because life's really crazy and sometimes you start something
and you have no idea what's gonna happen in the end,
so keep this thought during this whole talk.

How it was said, I have 16 years of career and along all these years I had, actually I am here
and I guess many of you are here because you have wishes, you have dreams.
Most of them connected or even linked to technology.

I also had all of this, in fact, I do, right?
I have seen and lived many battles along many years.
I knew I wasn't alone, but I didn't have very much this perspective if I was accompanied
if there were other women in my sector, on my floor
and most of the time there was none
and I knew it was going to be difficult as hell, but like...
At this time I thought I hadn't won.
Why? Because I don't know, I felt the whole time as having a million defeats,
you know that thing of killing a lion per day and everything was pretty hard.
I am not saying that today things are very easy, but it's less worse.

My story begins a little bit in 2008
that was when I migrated from my career of designer and I went to this "front-end" thing
and I was in love with HTML, I started to work in places working with front-end
and I found some bizarre experiences in the likes of...

I have bills to pay and I can't lose this job and nobody respects me in the company.
My boss doesn't allow me to talk on the daily
I arrived late at work...
This episode was very bizarre, I arrived late because I went sign my divorce.
And then the whole floor, like, a bunch of developers:
tsc, you were in the love hotel there, you know...
even dried the hair...
dude, I had to sign my divorce and that's why I got late.

My kid sick and I couldn't do home office because the company didn't allow to,
because the boss didn't allow to,
because they didn't know if I was really going to do Home Office
or if I was going to spend the whole day on the street or in the shopping.

And everyone thought the UX designer work was very simple, very easy.
It was just to draw a bunch of wireframes and everything was alright,
so it was just to go there and decorate a lot of small recipes that already existed around,
and going there in the meeting and present that.

Truthfully I wanted very very much to learn how to program
and I had a very big frustration because people didn't want to explain,
didn't want to teach me because I was never a very self-taught person,
I am the kind of person that really need to have somebody in the mentorship format,
and people never had the patience to do this with me.

So, in 2011 - this all happened from 2008 to 2011 -
so in 2011 I was a person with a broken heart in relation to the front-end part,
I was really hurt and I didn't want ever again to look at your face
and I wanted to go home and get away of all of this.
BrazilJS, no way, I will never speak of that event.
That's funny, right?

So, I would say... what happened to me?

What happened to me is what happens to many women.
We as women are not encouraged to risk,
we are always being encouraged to be that princess,
that perfect woman who can't make mistakes
who wake up with birds like taking the dress away and everything is beautiful,
everything is marvelous, have all the makeup and...
life is not exactly like that, ok?
We know very well it is not like that and I said like: fuck it.
I will leave this piece of my life aside and I will go through separate ways.

Continue at: https://youtu.be/nYoVKGvn0ms?t=5m19s

[jaydson]

Hey @FagnerMartinsBrack , I've just enabled YouTube community contributions on @mjcoffeeholick's talk.
I think it's easily to translate right there.
Tell me your thoughts and thank you for the initiative.

Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_video?ref=share&v=nYoVKGvn0ms

[FagnerMartinsBrack]

@jaydson I am just doing the transcription now. Temporization will be done later on Youtube once I have reviewed the transcription. This allows me to focus on the text first.

[jaydson]

@FagnerMartinsBrack got it.
But as a suggestion I encourage you to try the transcription as well on YouTube (without the temporization).
I tried few days ago and it's super easy.

[FagnerMartinsBrack]

@jaydson Is it possible to expose where I stopped so that somebody can continue? That's actually one of the reasons I am posting here as comments :D.

[jaydson]

I think it is, because there's just one transcription. So if another person will help with the transcription it's possible to continue from where you stopped.
Let me know if it works.