Hackathons, Codecabin, a 5 year anniversary & special guest Erica Quessenberry

About this episode

The episode features Erica Quessenberry discussing hackathons and open source initiatives.

This episode we have a special guestUm, braco MVP and team Skrift co-founder, Erica Quessenberry! We talk all things hacktober (and preptember) ahead of the busiest month in open source. To support Umbraco's Hacktoberfest, Candid Contributions and friends are hosting a virtual hackathon. Join us Fri 10th and Sat 11th October for a virtual hackathon, more info here: https://www.meetup.com/umbraco-virtual/events/303390646/ To see more about what happened at Codecabin, check out their Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/codecabinconf/ Checkout Erica's magazine, Skrift, here: https://skrift.io/ and get in touch if you'd like to be an author. If you have any feedback, comments or questions you can toot us @candidcontribs , tweet us @candidcontribs , email hello@candidcontributions.com or join the Umbraco Discord server !

People in this episode

Host: Candid Contributions

Guest: Erica Quessenberry

Topics covered

• hackathons
• open source
• Umbraco
• Skrift
• Codecabin
• Hacktoberfest

Keywords

• hackathons
• open source
• Umbraco
• Skrift
• Codecabin
• Hacktoberfest
• virtual hackathon

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Umbraco, Skrift, Codecabin

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