Forge Your Future with Open Source

FOSS Benefits to Your Personal Network

When you mention the word “networking” to many in software development, often they’ll do one of two things. Either they’ll start telling you about this one time they had to fix their family’s router, run their own DNS server, or brought down the entire work subnet because of a typo. Or, if they realize that by “networking” you mean interfacing with other humans, they may blanch and start nervously scanning the room for the closest exit.

Unfortunately, much of our popular and technological culture has trained us to think of networking as an Intimidating Event: a bunch of people gather in a room, shake hands, introduce themselves, and then say smarmy things to each other to drum up new business leads or sell ...