Great Wide Open 2016 Getting Involved
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Getting involved in your local community can provide unexpected benefits. You can meet great people doing meaningful work through local meetup groups or conferences. Volunteering your skills, even if you feel they are small, can make a positive difference over time. When you face challenges, your community can inspire and ground you to keep pursuing your passions.
Great Wide Open 2016 Getting Involved
- 2. Joy1:MeetGreatPeople 1. Connections beget Connections 2. There are small, short ‘conferences’ happening every night in your town. @GinnyGhezzo
- 3. Joy2:MeetGreatPeople DoingGreatThings 1. Read The New York Times article “The Disproportionate Risk of Driving While Black” 2. When you lose your way, your community provides grounding & inspiration @GinnyGhezzo
- 4. Joy3:Do‘Great’Things 1. The ‘little’ skills make a difference over time. 2. Don’t wait for the perfect 2b. But build muscle memory 3. If you want to test your new knowledge, teach it @GinnyGhezzo
Editor's Notes
- #4: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/us/racial-disparity-traffic-stops-driving-black.html?_r=0 http://www.southerncoalition.org/ian-mance-presents-at-code-for-america-summit/
- #7: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/opinion/sunday/how-to-be-a-woman-programmer.html?_r=0