README.md

A Tribe Called Programmer Presentation

This is a presentation I give regularly at the University of Akron. I present it to the late Dr. Kathy Liszka's Computer Science Senior Seminar class. The Markdown file contains the outline I wrote before creating the PPT.

A Tribe Called Programmer

The Software Developer Community and Why You Should Join

Jerry D’Antonio
Software Developer

Presented at The University of Akron
Senior Seminar, Computer Science
Dr. Kathy Liszka

Links

Below are all the URLs from within the presentation, provided here for easy reference.

Open Source

• The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
• GNU Operating System
• Apache Software Foundation
• Mozilla

Conferences

• Stir Trek
• CodeMash
• PyOhio
• Central Ohio Software Symposium

Meetup Groups

• Akron Code Club
  • http://www.meetup.com/AkronCodeClub/
• Akron Women in Tech
  • http://www.meetup.com/Akron-Women-In-Tech/
• Hudson Software Craftmanship
• Akron.io
• Cleveland Tech Events

Hackerspaces & Coworking

• synHAK
• Cleveland Makers Alliance
  • http://www.meetup.com/MakersAlliance/
• OSC Tech Lab
  • http://www.meetup.com/LaunchLeague/

Hackathons

• SpaceApps Cleveland
• Cleveland GiveCamp
• RailsBridge
• Cleveland Startup Weekend
• StartupBus
• Erie Day of Code

Civic Hacking

• Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government
• The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance
• Open Cleveland
• Cleveland Civic Hacking
• OpenDataCincy
• Code for America
• National Day of Civic Hacking
• Data.gov
• NASA Data Portal