talk for bootcamp grads about meetups, community and furthering your career

1. Join the Community
Miriah Peterson - Data Engineer Weave
@captainnobody1

2. What is Community?
● Local Community
○ Conferences
○ Slack
○ Meetups
● Global Community
○ Conferences
○ Reddit
○ Stack Overflow
○ Slack

3. Local Community
Why?
How?
When?

4. Why? - Gain skills
● Workshops on New
technologies
● User groups
● Demos and examples
● Company case studies

5. Why? - Find Jobs
● Job boards are poison
● Meet recruiters and hiring
managers
● Learn about companies in the
valley and their opportunities
● Be the first one in line for a job

6. Why? - Give Back
What is open-source?

7. Why? - Give back
How do we contribute to
open-source?

8. Why? - Give back
How do we support
open-source?

9. Why? - Give back
How do we support an
open-source
community?

10. Why? - Give Back
● Attend Meetups
● Give talks
● Support speakers
● Use tools
● Spark and interest
● Have a conversation
● Receive the benefit back from
the community
https://help.meetup.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002491331-
Promoting-your-Meetup-group

11. How do I get involved?

12. What is a meetup?

13. Why should I go? ● Gain Skills
● Network
● Present
● Learn
● Socialize

14. What are meetups
in Utah like?
● AngularUtah
● UtahJS
● Salt Lake City Developers
● PyLadies SLC
● Girl Development SLC/Provo
● Utah Go User Group
● Salt Lake CIty Data Science
● Machine Learning Utah
● Utah Vue.JS Meetup
● Salt Lake City Python
● Utah Ruby Users Group
● Utah Rust
● Google Developer Group Salt Lake
● Utah SQL Server Group
● Utah C++ User Group
● Utah OpenSource
● Utah AWS

15. Conferences ● Silicon Slopes
● Flow Factor
● Open Source Utah
● WomenTechmakers Utah
● GDG Dev Fest

16. Why Should I go to a Conference?
● Gain Skills
● Network
● Present
● Learn
● Socialize

17. Online
Community

18. Why Should I invest
in an online
community?
https://bit.ly/forgeslack
● Announcements
● Get questions answered quickly
● Coordinate projects
● Give back?

19. A note on Jobs...

20. Giving back!

21. For More information
Twitter: @forgeutah
@captainnobody1
Slack: https://bit.ly/forgeslack
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/pro/forge-
utah/#groups
Github: https://github.com/forgeutah