Tech Talks on Open Source Software & how to contribute, hosted by Happy Scribe!

#### 🌟 Programme 🎤

• Short introduction about TechFems and our host Happy Scribe
• Round of introductions to get to know each other
• TechTalks on Open Source Evolution: from Past to Contribution, by Merlijn Vos
  Open Source Software (OSS) powers the world, it’s where ideas and communities come together to push software forward. In this talk we’ll go over the history of OSS, why it’s important, and how you can start contributing to advance your skills and career.
• Q&A
  Break
• Networking and socialising

🎤 About our speaker 🌟
Merlijn Vos is an award winning Senior Full-Stack Engineer who has spent way too much time configuring Vim. With a background in UX and a passion for Open Source Software, they help maintain over 400 packages which have been downloaded hundreds of millions of times.

#### 🖥️ About our host Happy Scribe 🖥️

Happy Scribe is the go-to platform for transcription and subtitling needs. We’re on a mission to solve speech to text technology by building a multilingual and frictionless platform for transcription and subtitles through our machine-generated and human-made transcription & subtitling offering. Started in 2017, Happy Scribe has been used by +1 million users, transcribing for them +60 years of audio and video content.

### 👩🏾‍💻 Who can participate? 👩‍💻
This meeting is for women+ (inclusive of trans and non-binary) from all backgrounds. You are a student or learning by yourself, a graduate looking for a job in tech, or a professional working in tech. We use English during the meetings but many participants speak Spanish and other languages.
Read more about TechFems on our website: www.techfems.org
Make sure you read our Code of Conduct: https://techfems.org/codeofconduct/

#### 📞 Contact ⏰

If you would like to be added to our WhatsApp group to receive last minute updates about the event such as reminders, changes, or cancellations, please message 693 030 848.

Please note that due to the space it will not be possible to bring children.