Meetup 16

“How did you break into product/software development?”

That’s a question that a developers quickly gets used to being asked. As the role has evolved from a coding function to one of end to end development, so has the appeal.

If the in-person interest is on the rise, then the digital world is ablaze. There are an overwhelming range of Slack channels, Facebook groups, LinkedIn Groups and training courses to jump into, engage with, and learn from. Product is 🔥. Developing it even hotter.

What is surprising given this trend is how few people are taking advantage of what is possibly the most under-utilised path to practical product development experience.

Open source.

This session is for everyone and anyone who wants to get started with Open Source.

Takeaways would be:

• Getting started with Open Source
• Leveraging Communities for Career Building
• Enterprise route VS Open Source Route or both!?
• Finding Opportunities and Projects as a Developer

Outline

The focus of the session would be around Open Source and how anyone and everyone can put their first step into developement with it.

Outline

• Why to Start your Developement journey with Open Source?
• What are these Jargons?
• How Open Source Developement works?
• Open Source is more than code.
• Open Source as opportunity
• Open Source as community (Good Communities Vs Not So Good Communities)
• Two Open Source paths into Developement
• The Enterprise route Vs The Startup Route
• 7 Steps for finding your first Open Source Project
• You got this Far

Requirements

Just a curious mind, willing to experiment.

Speaker bio

I am Megha Pathak
I build things that live on the Web.
I’m a Product-minded, curiosity-driven Developer passionate about envisioning and developing great products.
I often write about Product Management, Community building and Web Developemt.
I have build my career through communities and still doing the same, now I educate students and professionals how they can do the same.

Links

• LinkedIn
• GitHub
• Twitter