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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">FutureTalk with Selena Deckelmann</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2014-05-12T18:00:00" datetime="2014-05-12T18:00:00">Monday, May 12, 2014 from 6</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2014-05-12T19:00:00" datetime="2014-05-12T19:00:00">7pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202392091'><span class='fn org p-name'>New Relic</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">111 SW 5th Avenue, Suite 2700</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">Oregon</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97204</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">United States</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=111%20SW%205th%20Avenue,%20Suite%202700,%20Portland%20Oregon%2097204%20United%20States'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <h2>What Beginners Teach Us</h2> <p><em>Check out our pre-event Q&A with Selena on the New Relic <a href="http://blog.newrelic.com/2014/05/07/advice-new-programmers-upcoming-futuretalk-speaker-selena-deckelmann/">blog</a>.</em></p> <p>Open source as an idea has won. Linux dominates developer servers, open source tools are ubiquitous and being an open source developer rocks. And yet, we talk frequently about how to find new contributors, how to increase the number of people who participate and share code with us, how to improve the skills of the junior developers and hire them as fast as we can.</p> <p>Selena has spent a considerable amount of time teaching absolute beginners how to program in Python, how to use the command-line and how to use revision control. These beginners succeed and fail in open source in both familiar and surprising ways. In this talk, she will share lessons from their experiences to help us create a more inclusive and welcoming future for open source software. Further, she will provide insights into the code review process, and how learning how to give code review (not just receive code review) is critical to becoming an expert developer.</p> <p><em>This is the 7th event in a series of free monthly FutureTalks from disruptive Developers, innovative Technologists and world-changing Creatives. Networking begins at 5:30, with free food and drinks. The presentation will begin right at 6p.</em></p> <p>Please RSVP via Eventbrite <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/futuretalk-with-selena-deckelmann-tickets-11529261331">HERE</a></p> <p><em>Selena is a major contributor to PostgreSQL and a data architect at Mozilla. She's been involved with free and open source software since 1995 and began running conferences for PostgreSQL in 2007. She founded Open Source Bridge, Postgres Open and speaks internationally about open source, databases and community. She is an advisor to the Ada Initiative, an organization dedicated to increasing the participation of women in open source and technology communities.</em></p> <p>You can find her on Twitter @selenamarie and on her blog at chesnok.com</p> <p>› FutureTalk is brought to you by New Relic in collaboration with <a href="http://www.techoregon.org">TAO</a></p> </div> </div>