Building Bridges
A talk about the Angular Community
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To Start
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ng-conf organizer
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JavaScript is Huge
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It’s like Orbital Clearing
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It’s like Orbital Clearing
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It’s like Orbital Clearing
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Clearing the JS Orbit
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Bridge Builder
by Will Allen Dromgoole
An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
Through which was flowing a sullen tide
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“You are wasting your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass this way;
You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build this bridge at evening tide?”
The builder lifted his old gray head;
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followed after me to-day
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!”
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So what happened?
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Who are our Old Men?
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How many cross without stopping to build bridges?
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They build the bridge for “younger” developers
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Take a moment. Think whose bridges you crossed.
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Whose bridges did Frost cross?
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Whose bridges did Frost cross?
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Whose bridges did Frost cross?
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Whose bridges did Frost cross?
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Whose bridges did Frost cross?
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BUT WE ARE STILL JUST A BUNCH OF WIERDOS!!!
Whose bridges did Frost cross?
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Building Bridges
BB = Community Building
BB = Fellowship
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The Angular team is a great example
Brad and Igor are so good at this
GDE Summit, Angular Team was the best
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http://goo.gl/p7BoeV
Your words have great effect! Plan for what you want the effect to be.
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Igor’s dedication to the community is unwavering
His involvement w/ ng-conf
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Are We Bridge Builders?
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How big are the bridges that we build?
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Are we the youth for whom the bridge was built?
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Know your role in the community, and fill it!
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Copyright Infringement
John Carmack
John Romero
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Copyright Infringement
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Copyright Infringement
The John’s
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Copyright Infringement
John Carmack - The Engine Builder
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Copyright Infringement
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Copyright Infringement
“The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.”
John Carmack - The Engine Builder
John Carmack - The Bridge Builder
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My Challenge to All
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Thank You!
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