Keynote: Finding Purpose in Open Source Through Community Building
summary
Started Jungle Girls in 2017 and runs 25+ events teaching Django and Python that reach 500+ participants; wins a PSF community service award and secures a first paid open source role; spins up a nonprofit called Everything Open Source to broaden contributions beyond code. Mentored individuals who become a Paris data science master student, a DevOps engineer leading workshops, a Django backend developer, and a data‑science community lead. Documents persistent barriers: lack of paid pathways for junior contributors and repeated visa denials.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:26Speaker’s open source journey
- 7:42Jungle Girls community
- 12:46Mentoring new contributors
- 19:11Engineers giving back
- 22:20Open source visa challenges
- 26:55Open source helpers
- 33:22Personal growth in open source
- 35:52Career as OS programs manager
- 39:50Founding Everything Open Source
- 42:46Call to action
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