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Forge Your Future with Open Source
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Forge Your Future with Open Source

by VM Brasseur
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 14m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Get Together

One of the best parts of contributing to FOSS projects is getting the chance to meet up with your fellow community members. These gatherings sometimes draw people from all over the world. They give you the opportunity to meet people and learn from them. Face-to-face meetings help to build trust, create and strengthen friendships, and increase empathy with others. This last point is often overlooked but very important. According to an article by Laura Delizonna [Del17], empathy among team members has been shown to improve communication and productivity by creating a space of psychological safety. It also has a welcome side effect of helping us become better human beings, which is something we all need.

Sometimes these meetups take ...

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