Friday Hacks #88, February 13
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Ever wanted to get involved in the tech/developer community but don’t know where to start? Come down to Friday Hacks this week to learn about it!
Date/Time: Friday, February 13 at 7:00pm
Venue: SR3, Town Plaza, UTown
Facebook Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/411879552308839
20 Ways to Get Involved with the Developer Community
Talk description
How can a student or anyone curious get involved with the developer community beyond school or work? And why? This talk will scan through the developer scene both locally, globally, online or on-ground and give examples on where anyone can contribute, get involved and get more information about the vibrant technology scene.
What communities can you join easily and learn? Which meetups can you attend and even help to co-organize? How to start contributing to open source? Can we easily share with by writing our own blogs, books or even making podcasts? What are some interesting twitter accounts or blogs to follow? How can we add in short trips to engage with locals while traveling anywhere in the world? We will discuss all these questions and more!
Speaker profile
Sayanee Basu is a full stack developer working with emerging web technologies at Ricoh Pte. Ltd. in Singapore. Her key interest lies in connecting the web and the internet to the physical world through sensors and hence, much of her free time is now spent in tinkering with electronics and computer networks. She creates Build Podcast, a screencast series on developer tools as well as actively contributes to the Singapore tech community through curation of events, open source projects at webuild.sg and a developer focused podcast with We Build LIVE. She graduated from National University of Singapore in Electrical Engineering.
You can find out more about her at //sayan.ee!