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Currently on GitHub and ramping up into some OS projects under https://github.com/baweaver https://github.com/baweaver . Now that I have enough of a skillbase t

Currently on GitHub and ramping up into some OS projects under https://github.com/baweaver https://github.com/baweaver . Now that I have enough of a skillbase to be useful I feel a lot more comfortable in submitting and joining in. Located in Joplin, Missouri. I would go to conferences but I have a 40 hour work week and no vacation until this coming February which makes it extremely difficult. Work won't send me to conferences either, I've tried to play that one a few times.

davismwfl 13y ago
Yea, the vacation time sinks the week long conference idea real quick. Open source is definitely a good way to start, and you are in the middle of the states so you are in a good place to be able to get places. Not sure what kinda of drive it is to Kansas City or Oklahoma City or even St Louis, but you could do weekend trips there and find a meetup to go do. Find a hackathon in one of those cities and meet some people that way. See if you can find a startup in St Louis or KC and go see them, talk to them, we all work over weekends at least some. Usually I find people pretty cool with letting someone stop by for a short time and learn something. Hell, all they can do is say no, just keep asking around till you get a yes.