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From San Francisco to Nashville Tennessee for Code Conf : Wednesday June 24th to Saturday June 27th , 2015
Github is once again sponsoring Rails Girls Summer of Code this year! This means that my RGSoC team mate and friend Emma Koszinowski and I are being hosted at the Github Headquarters in San Francisco. The version control software is providing work space including desks and monitors for us as well as coaches -- this is amazing.And as if that wasn't generous enough they also invited us to partake in the third Code Conf which is a 3 day long Conference.
Summer is Conference time..? Or maybe conferences take place all the time but i am new to them. Code Conf took place in Nashville Tennesee -
Most of the conference was about improving the software community by featuring 22 thought- provoking speakers, convsersation and social connections.
Code Conf was a great place to learn about open source, best practices, documentation and community.
this year it took place in Nashville, Tennessee.
What was the point of codeconf and re-ocurring theme/ talk topics? Open source licenses and businesses - pivoting and open sourcing previously closed source businesses such as IBM and Microsoft.
Community building- bringing people together, sharing stories, learning about how people are using open source and learnign about how open source adoption by Microsoft and IBM is restructuring their culture and the way they do business.
On hands training through workshops where you learn by doing -
Throughtout the talks and workshops it was clear that many of the talks were about learning more about Open Source, Atom the new editor, diverstiy and inclusion, open source at a scale, creating chaos from order and also about the many and varied background that people in tech have.
Some of my favorite talks inclued Lee Dohms Conversational Aikido - "Lessons in Moderation", Ariel Waldman's "The Hacker's Guide to the Galaxy", Allen Smith's Managing an Open Source Project and Pete Goodlife's closing Keynote on Becoming a Better Programmer.
Aside of programming and Tech I appreciated and learned about the beauty and quirkiness of the south via
The Opry Hotel- Opry Theme Park Country Music Honky Tonky Nashville Country Music Hall of Music The Conference Venue- The Bell Tower Having the best Barbeque'd Pull Pork and Spicy Chicken Nashville streets are clean, they're architecture is magnaminous and their storms are summer storms are unpredictable.
Without the conference I would not have had the opportunity to learn about the following:
Open Source Atom's Release Networking Meeting people who's faces we only knew of in the shape of an Avatar Meeting Corrine Warnshuis Executive Director of Girl Develop It- the meet up that helped me realize that learning to code is powerful and that coding is possible. Visiting the Github Nashville Remote office Lightning Talks The Hackers Guide to the Galaxy Becoming a better programmer Traveling to a conference outside of CA for the first time Meeting Scott Chacon the man in the blue flannel,jeans,cowboy hat and boots for the first time. Reading the Git books preface from Fort Dallas to SF and realizing that the man in the cowboy boots and beats was the author of the Git Book. Experiencing a Honky Tonky Karaeoke
With so much depth