The Magic Sauce Is Open Source.
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We'll meet on the 3rd floor.
Bring your laptops!
There's some magic we've been missing. It's seemed a little elusive in the back room of our collective consciousness. We've all been encouraged to contribute to our community, but we may have felt like we lacked the time or the confidence to be of assistance. However, the happy truth is that we can all do something useful somewhere. Tonight we'd like to offer you the opportunity to find out where, to show you how and to help you make this happen for real. Your mission, if you chose to accept it, is that you show up ready to have some fun.
The Magic Sauce of the Tech Community is our Open Source. And by the end of this evening, our first OPEN SOURCE LAB, we'll each have contributed in a meaningful, practical way to the community that helped us solve that eight-hour block during project week, or that inspired us to build something more creatively or efficiently in our own work. We'll use our three hours tonight to make... stuff... better.
Leading us in our discovery is Brandon Hilkert (http://brandonhilkert.com/about/), Engineering Team Lead at PipelineDeals.
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In his spare time, Brandon is a dedicated open source contributor, a blogger and the author of BUILD A RUBY GEM (http://brandonhilkert.com/books/build-a-ruby-gem/), a new book based on his successful 10-week email course. His newsletter (http://brandonhilkert.com/newsletter/) goes out to more than 3000 subscribers twice a month, providing them with the kind of content that they can implement directly in their own applications. You can check out a preview of his screencast, below.
For those of you looking for jobs, becoming a more fully integrated member of the community will look good on your resume, sure, but for everyone involved, the secret ingredient in the magic sauce is the one that makes you feel good, too.
Learn It. Do It. Share It.
The Magic Sauce Is Open Source.