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Networking benefits actually depend on the context of how you network. For example, assume you are a new Startup and are actively seeking funding/investment, you run into an investor, greet him with a smile and a hello, and give him your card, and the next day, he lazily gives a brief glance at all the cards he's collected and somehow finds yours a little different. He Googles your start up and he finds it interesting and he decides on investing in your startup, and then bang, your networking has paid off. However, this is only a very optimistic situation, and needn't necessarily workout for the majority.

Apart from the indirect marketing, networking can also help you create familiarity - For example, it's much better to say "Hey Investor X, remember me? We met at Event Y and we had a drink together?" than saying "Hey Investor X, I don't know who the fuck you are, but I just want your money.." (in a very subtle way, ofcourse)

Forget investors, you actually get to know a lot of Designers, programmers, artists, etc. etc. if you attend these networking events, which in my opinion is one of the best perks you can get.

However, I wouldn't talk in favor of SXSW though, because of it's expensive tickets. I would suggest you go to eventbrite[1], find some interesting meetups happening in your place (which usually have an entry fee anywhere between FREE to <$50) and mingle with a lot of people, as actually it will definitely pay off in the end - Either you will find some potential…

This isn't even to take into account that we flub our speech (not to mention writing) all the time. It's easy to imagine someone saying "red... Metal... Big ball!" because that was the order that the features of the ball arrived in their mind.

So there's a difference between planned speech and rushed speech, and there's piecing together what someone means through their mistakes.

For another example, last night I was watching some Zoom comedy [0] and one of the comedians twice fumbled their joke, saying a word that was important to the punchline too early. So they abandoned the joke and moved on. Inferring what had happened was fairly natural, but you really had to have a robust (as in, fail-safe) grasp of English and, I suppose, culture, to roll with it.

[0] https://www.eventbrite.com/o/best-of-san-francisco-stand-up-comedy-6560595937

Thanks for sharing, this is both informative and reassuring as I'm currently organizing my own hackathon coming up in 2 weeks.

It's a thematic hackathon ("Startup Weekend Immigration") happening on May 29-31 in SF.[1] We'll be hacking on ways to make it less difficult for immigrants to achieve a better life in a new country, and we have some great speakers including the CTO of Zenefits, who struggled with visa issues himself while co-founding Zenefits.

If you know anyone who would be interested, they can use the promo code "hn" on Eventbrite[2] to sign up for $25, which includes all meals during the weekend. (Early Bird pricing ends tonight at 11:59pm PST.)

[1] http://www.up.co/communities/usa/san-francisco/startup-weekend/5961

[2] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/startup-weekend-immigration-tickets-16092734803?discount=hn

I love how responsive our local (departmental) instance of GitLab CE is -- it's downright snappy compared to the corporate instance of JIRA. We love the issue tracking subsystem of GitLab and use it as our main ticketing system.

We've done a few talks on Git basics to help increase adoption, and are doing a free webinar "Git Foundations: Basic Concepts and Definitions" next week: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/git-foundations-basic-concepts-and-definitions-tickets-26937970194

This is the sort of result it makes us very happy to achieve:

"I have got by on minimum understanding of Git for a couple of years now--this really brought up my confidence in using Git. After I learned the Git internals, the esoteric commands really started falling into place."
--Nicholas Santucci, Monitoring and Performance Engineer

I just learn Python/Django for a side project over the last couple months and launching tonight. I like it way more than rails, that's for sure.

If you went to a big university try Google, Facebook, etc. They don't care what you code in, they just want to see if you understand programming fundamentals and problem solving capabilities. The bay area is flooded with Junior and Entry level developers so it is hard to land a spot. You have to go to networking places. The best way to find a job is by meeting someone who is hiring.

come listen to Jeff Atwood speak (created Stackoverflow.com)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jeff-atwood-founder-of-stack-overflow-and-discourse-talks-online-community-tickets-10013896835?utm_campaign=order_confirm&ref=eemailordconf&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb_email&utm_term=eventname

I'm glad I read the whole article, as it's great to see a lot of familiar faces highlighted in the logo slide towards the end - I'm immensely proud of what we've achieved at Overleaf[1] (although with still a long way to go), and it's great to see Sparrho[2] and Impact Story[3] also included in this piece.

There's a huge amount of innovation happening in science tech right now, and it's amazing how far it's come in just a few years.

For anyone in London interested in new developments in science and publishing tech, were hosting an event on May 10th you're welcome to attend - would love to see new faces there: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/futurepub-7-new-developments-in-scientific-collaboration-tech-tickets-24489046397

[1] https://www.overleaf.com

[2] https://www.sparrho.com

[3] https://impactstory.org