Bridging Connections

We always hear about the word "community" all the time, from companies, meetups, and sometimes groups of like-minded people. It has quite a broad meaning yet pretty vague at the same time. I‘ll walk you through my personal experience in defining the true meaning behind all of this.

Presented at JSConf.Asia 2016 https://2016.jsconf.asia/

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1. Bridging Connections
2. Chee Aun
3. YOU SHOULD FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER
4. SELFIE COFFEE!
5. CHANNEL 8 NEWS
6. DR YAACOB IBRAHIM
7. SINGAPORE (7 YEARS) KUALA LUMPUR (4 YEARS) PENANG (SINCE BIRTH)
8. Self-reflectability
11. GITHUB.COM/CHEEAUN/LIFE
12. CHEEAUN.LIFE
13. This is not a technical talk
14. No code on these slides. No worries.
15. Storytelling time
16. But first, let’s look at photos
17. JSCONF.ASIA 2015
18. GEEKBRUNCH SG 2016
19. GEEKBRUNCH SG 2014
20. ⌛ 2004
21. NARUTO
22. Let’s begin with the beginning
23. CHRIS NEALE FIRST INTERNET STRANGER WHO HELPED ME
24. DAVID TENSER FIRST PERSON WHO INSPIRED ME ON UI DESIGN
25. CSS/EDGE BY ERIC MEYER
26. A LIST APART BY JEFFREY ZELDMAN
27. KAMAL FARIZ FIRST PERSON WHO ENCOURAGED ME TO GIVE TALKS
28. JINNY WONG FIRST PERSON WHO TEACH ME HOW TO CODE WHEN I WAS A BEGINNER
29. They have changed my life
30. They have inspired me
31. I want to be like them
32. I attend a lot of meetups
33. I build a lot of apps
34. I write blog posts & give talks
35. I embarked on a journey
37. 2014 March
 EmberConf, Portland April
 Front End Ops Conf, SF June
 RedDotRubyConf, Singapore September
 CSSConfEU & JSConfEU, Berlin October
 Web Directions South, Sydney November
 CSSConf.Asia & JSConf.Asia, Singapore
38. 2015 March
 FOSSASIA, Singapore April
 CodeMania, Auckland May
 Beyond Tellerrand, Düsseldorf June
 RedDotRubyConf, Singapore July
 ReactEurope, Paris November
 An Event Apart, SF
 CSSConf.Asia & JSConf.Asia, Singapore
39. 2016 (THIS YEAR) March
 FOSSASIA, Singapore April
 Tech In Asia conf, Singapore June
 Echelon, Singapore
 RedDotRubyConf, Singapore August
 PHPConf.Asia, Singapore September
 LINE Developer Day, Tokyo October
 iOSConfSG, Singapore November
 CSSConf.Asia & JSConf.Asia, Singapore
40. 3 years 25 conferences
42. What have I learned?
43. I ask a lot of questions
44. I find out how people organise events
45. I start to know more people
46. SAYANEE CREATOR OF WEBUILD.SG
47. WEBUILD.SG
48. DATA.WEBUILD.SG
49. MICHAEL CHENG ORGANIZER OF PHPCONF.ASIA
50. ENGINEERS.SG
52. GETTING READY FOR THE LARGEST GEEK BRUNCH YET
53. LAKSHAN PERERA AWESOME GUY
54. KOPIJS.ORG
64. Why am I doing this?
65. Why are we doing this?
66. One simple reason
67. “Thank you”
68. Give and take
69. Give talks Write articles Help people Teach people
70. It’s always about the people
71. WINNIE LIM BEST STORYTELLER EVER
72. JOURNAL.WINNIELIM.ORG/BRIDGING-CONNECTIONS
73. “We were all very different individuals, from vastly varying backgrounds and life stories, with divergent trajectories and hopes – but all of that didn’t matter when we were all bridged by the work we all love to do, made possible by the lack of a physical distance across ones and zeroes.”
74. Thank you