We all want to have the next career move for better pay and better recognition. Often people did not aware that you can build up your technical career through Open Source. However, they are afraid of contributing to Open Source. They thought they have to focus on new features, in-dept code fix in order to contribute. This year (2019) Silicon Valley Code Camp is focusing on the theme of "Open Source. This presentation is to help you see "in-between" what else you can contribute beyond code contribution so you can build your own public image and recognition.

1. Grow your
career through
Open Source
Landing your next career move
Juanita Dion-Chiang
2019 Silicon Valley Code Camp

2. About Speaker:
Open Source: https://kabanero.io/
Email: juanita.dion@gmail.com
Twitter: juanita_dion
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juanitadion/
Github: dionj
Juanita Dion-Chiang

4. 1M+ Developers’ Open Source Projects

5. Grow your
career at
your
company
Identify an Open Source that
your company cares about!

6. Start from the Basics

7. Learn from Docs

8. Get Hands-on Experience

9. GitHub – When do you know
• Spelling/Grammar Errors
• Environmental/Installation Errors
• Build/Run-Time Errors
• Missing
• Lost Features
• Empty Instructional videos
• Lack of Blogs from different point of views
• Submit Github Issues/Pull Request (PR) for…
• New feature/Code contribution
• New blogs/videos (If accepted -> Grab in Blogs!
• how you encounter errors?
• how to by-pass, focusing on Developers’ Experience

12. Bragging Rights
• Marketing Yourself
• Online Portfolio
• Social media
• Blogs
• Resume
• Use Case Study matters
• Demo
• Developer’s Websites:
• Stack Overflow
• Hackernoon
• CodeMentor
• Medium
• Dzone
• Meetup(s)
• Workshop(s)
• Hackathon(s)
• Company’s Developers’ Program(s)
• Event(s)
• Developer-focused conference
• Join Public Slack from Open Source
• Join Conversation
• Social Media to share PMs (make it personal)
Build Community

13. Public Speaking
• Grace in taking in criticism
• Make it fun in the developers’ world
• Build your own success portfolio for your work
• Brave in asking for promotion/advancement/raise

14. Speaker Contact:
Open Source: https://kabanero.io/
Email: juanita.dion@gmail.com
Twitter: juanita_dion
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juanitadion/
Github: dionj
Juanita Dion-Chiang