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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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Form Your Own Meetup

Sometimes you can’t make it to community events or conferences, and there are no meetups in your area. How can you engage with the community? By creating one yourself. You can always form your own group dedicated to learning about, sharing, and contributing to free and open source software. It’s a lot easier to do than you’d think and can be very rewarding.

Local meetups are an excellent way to learn more about the project and its community. The members of a local meetup will have a unique perspective that you may not find in the greater community for your FOSS project. For starters, the local meetup members may share a language and culture different from the primary one of the project. This can make it a lot easier to share ...

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