Last weekend I participated in GiveCamp Memphis , a weekend long event where tech professionals come together to help Memphis non profits solve problems. This year, the event coincided with the AIGA Memphis Chapter’s Design for Good event. This is the fourth year

These are the slides and notes from my Command Line Crash Course talk presented at DevMemphis on March 3, 2020

This past weekend, Feb 23-25, the seventh annual GiveCamp Memphis event was held at the Fedex Institute of Technology on the University of Memphis Campus. “** GiveCamp is a weekend-long event where technology professionals from designers, developers and database administrators to marketers and web strategists donate their time to provide solutions for non-profit organizations”** A dozen nonprofits and more than 80 volunteers made this the largest GiveCamp Memphis yet.

This past weekend, the memphis tech community got together at the Fedex Institute of technology on the University of Memphis campus for the fifth annual HackMemphis event. HackMemphis, organized by the Memphis Technology Foundation , is a different kind of hackathon where there’s no pressure and teams are free to work on whatever they want. Some of the city’s best developers, designers, makers, and tech leaders get together for a weekend to hang out and work on fun projects.

Finding my local tech community and participating in various open source communities has been my single most valuable privilege in the context of my career and fueling my passion for web development. If I had to choose between a master’s degree or all of the wisdom I’ve found and friends I’ve made from talking to developers at user groups, conferences, and events over the past 5 years, I might hand over the degree.

GiveCamp Memphis is a weekend-long event where local developers and designers get together to build software for non- profit organizations. Give Camp 2017 was held on February 17th, 18th, and 19th at The Fedex Institute of Technology at the University of Memphis. This was a new location for the event, now on its seventh year , thanks to the recently established partnership between the University of Memphis and the Memphis Technology Foundation.

This past weekend, I rode to Nashville with some friends from the Memphis user group community to attend Py Tennessee 2017 . This was my first year attending the conference and I’d hardly call myself a Python developer but I had a great time, learned a lot from the talks, and met some really cool people from all over the country.