Tech Community, Population Us

This presentation goes through the current state of the Chicago tech community and goes to the ideal state that Cody has envisioned. Along the way we talk about different ways everyone can contribute to the community in their own way.

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1. Tech Community, Population Us Cody Engel
2. Tech Community, Population Some Of Us Cody Engel
3. Tech Community, Population Only The Most Vocal Of Us Cody Engel
5. Me Me Me
6. Joining The Community Is Easy
7. Reddit
8. /r/iOSProgramming ~43,000 developers strong.
9. /r/AndroidDev ~94,000 developers (but who’s counting).
10. /r/startups ~295k of us are already there.
11. StackExchange
12. Ask Questions No matter how dumb it may seem, it isn’t.
13. Answer Questions Who knew 11 people would find this helpful?
14. Leave Comments Comments can be just as important as answers.
15. GitHub
16. Follow Projects It lets maintainers know that a project is important to others.
17. File Issues It helps the project evolve and get better.
18. Create Pull Requests Give the contributors a break by fixing things for them.
19. Open Source Things Even the smallest projects can have a major impact.
20. Medium
21. Clap For The Articles You Enjoy It’s easy and lets the author know they are writing valuable stuff.
22. Respond To Articles If you have something to say, don’t hold back.
23. Write Articles It’s easier than you think.
24. Public Speaking
25. Pay Attention …Or at least act like you are.
26. Ask Questions This lets the speaker know you are grasping the topic they’re talking about.
27. Give Your Own Talk It’s hard to empathize with speakers if you don’t speak yourself.
28. As You Become Involved
29. Have A Voice Trust me, people would love to hear your ideas.
30. It’s Okay To Be Wrong We literally get paid to make fail.
31. It’s Okay To Be Wrong We literally get paid to make mistakes.
32. Embrace Feedback You don’t know what you don’t know.
33. Be Polite Cat’s are jerks. Don’t be like a cat.