The document discusses growing and participating in technical communities. It encourages attendees to take notes, discuss with colleagues, blog about their experiences, start or join local user groups, learn from speakers, participate in conferences, hackathons and other events, provide feedback, and get involved with open source projects. The community is described as a friendly family that provides advice, support and opportunities to its members.

1. Community works!
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2. Welcome at TEK 2012
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3. Great speakers
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4. Started all just like you!
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5. Take notes
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6. Discover new tools
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7. Discuss with colleagues
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8. Blog your experiences
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9. Extend the community
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10. Passion
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11. Elizabeth Naramore
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12. “Passion moves us forward
in the face of stagnation”
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13. “with the right ingredients,
awesome communities are born”
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14. “and ideas come to life”
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15. Github
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16. it’s all about sharing
collaborative source control
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17. ?
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18. Travis Swicegood
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19. He wrote THE book
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21. And he did
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22. Knowledge
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23. Lorna Jane Mitchel
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24. Don’t give a man a fish
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25. Teach a man how to fish
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26. User group meetings
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27. Interactions
Presentations
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28. Google: php ug <location>
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29. If none exists in your area…
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30. You’re the one to start one!
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31. How to get the word out?
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33. Local businesses
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34. Conferences
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35. Learn from the people who
wrote the tools you use…
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36. …on a daily basis
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37. They don’t bite!!!
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38. Hallway tracks
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39. “Fuel for solutions, ideas
and in the end… results”
Cal Evans - Blue Parabola
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40. Participate in hackatons
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41. You can make a difference
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42. Leave feedback on
http://joind.in
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43. speakers and conference organizers
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44. If you like the talk/conference,
let them know
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45. If you didn’t like it,
explain what you didn’t like
and how to do it better next time!
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46. Used for Call for Paper proposals
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47. user group meetings
community events
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48. Great for online resume
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49. Check out mojolive.com!
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50. It incorporates joind.in!
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51. “Open-source is a lifestyle”
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52. A state-of-mind
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53. To give back or participate
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54. Something you “just” do
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55. It’s up to you
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56. Meet project owners
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57. “I didn’t realize so many
developers used Phing”
Michiel Rook, project lead of Phing
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58. Having a backchannel
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59. Bonus
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60. Through open-source,
I got in touch with big companies
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61. It opens doors to new opportunities
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62. Direct lines inside
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63. Benefit for
community & profession
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64. The PHP community
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65. We’re a family
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66. Advice, support or new jobs
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67. Recruitment
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68. Tech communities are
a magnet for recruiters
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69. We’re NOT a job-board!
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70. We met Lonnie Brown…
Lonnie is a recruiter
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71. But different…
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72. “I've never seen a community
so friendly & helpful as
the PHP community”
Lonnie Brown - Jacob Group
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73. EARN THAT RESPECT
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74. It’s passion that drives us
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75. We all chip in our “free” time
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76. And it’s easy to bash others
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77. If you like the talks
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78. Buy the speakers a beer
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79. Or pizza
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80. Or lock them in your trunk
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81. Or simply say “thank you”
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82. Michelangelo van Dam
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83. slides: speakerdeck.com
twitter: @dragonbe
Please rate this talk at
joind.in
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84. marco: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremykendall/5763084584
red carpet: http://www.flickr.com/photos/blueparabola
atmosphere: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonbe/5781101735
pizza: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshholmes/6780921185
david: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshholmes/6781029955
blog: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spooons/3550066388
passion: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremykendall/5762494735/
elizabeth: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bittarman/5416148385
github: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremykendall/5145916501
travis: http://www.flickr.com/photos/akrabat/4065549910
liz smith: http://www.flickr.com/photos/akrabat/4064794011
anna: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremykendall/5762537491
knowledge: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshholmes/6774850103
conferences: http://www.flickr.com/photos/blueparabola/5759121278
attendees: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonbe/5781136655
michiel: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuartherbert/6232038620
chuck norris: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andriesss/4024563530
bbq: http://www.flickr.com/photos/felixdv/3883257119
community: http://www.flickr.com/photos/akrabat/5787516267
michelangelo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dasprid/5148937451
creative commons: http://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman/2799490154
thank you: http://www.flickr.com/photos/akrabat/5823912587
hallway tracks: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremykendall/5765034636
hackathons: http://www.flickr.com/photos/akrabat/5823926421
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85. Thank you!
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