Do you care about any causes? More women in programming, open data, better healthcare, education... you name it. You can be a useful resource in non profit organizations and help the causes you care about the most.
To participate in hackatons! Lucía Escanellas (at the right) is traveling to Italy next month to attend a open data Hackaton. In the picture we were coding back in 2011 in the first DAL event in Uruguay.
In any case, the most important bits I want you to get out of this talk, is that now you are holding a seed. And you will get to grant this superpower you’ve just earned to others as well :)
And there’s no excuses! No matter if you just started, no matter if your company can’t found your trip. Michelle Guido is a role model in that matter. She’s speaking about just this in her talk in RubyConf Uruguay next Saturday. Her talk is entitled: ‘it takes a village to make a programmer’ and will cover how the community has helped her even to get the founds to get here to give this talk to us. She’s a go getter, and that’s the right attitude!
Other ways to spread the seed is to get together people who share your passion and create connections between them! You can do this by hosting a meetup group...
...and even at a lower scale, by picking someone and couching him/her. Dedicating some of your time to give back the love. That’s Antonella Clavero and me on the picture. We’ve done a front-end workshop with her and Rosina Navazas.
And all of a sudden, we are back when we started. It’s a full cycle. Now **you** are the one who will mentor someone and help him/her to get the cycle started all over again.
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