Bridging Connections
summary
Argues that communities are held together by small concrete actions not slogans: builds like HackerWeb Life and BusRouter SG and a meetup series KopiJS and prints ~60 free t‑shirts; collects and shares data at data.webuild.sg; an organizer records 1,241 meetup videos for engineers.sg. Claims the motivating mechanism is positive feedback — thank‑yous, issue reports, pull requests — and practices open source my life style transparency. Shows that pragmatic tools and tiny contributions, repeated, actually sustain networks.
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- 0:00Start
- 5:37This is not a technical talk
- 17:35ask a lot of questions
- 17:49I find out how people organise events
- 27:11One simple reason
- 30:14Give talks Write articles Help people Teach peopl
- 30:27It's always about the people
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