MEmeken·May 8, 2024Submission
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tech-community-slacks
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tech-community-slacks
Here is a list of all the tech community slacks!
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Here is a list of all the tech community slacks!
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Observed mentions: 2019-01-24 17:16:49 UTC to 2024-05-08 20:30:07 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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5 sourcesFor Chicago specifically, there are two solutions I can offer:
1. Chicago Engineering Tech Communities and Organizations - https://github.com/driscoll42/chicago-engineering-and-tech-c...
2. Chicago Tech Community Events - https://chitechcommunityevents.softr.app/
The first is a list of all the tech/engineering orgs in Chicago I maintain. Many are still on meetup, but not all. Unfortunately there's not one calendar to find everything. The second is an attempt to make a calendar of Chicago tech events, but it's not perfect. I don't run it but I highly recommend it.
I do recommend joining local community slacks/Discords. There's a good one for slacks here (https://github.com/thisdot/tech-community-slacks), e.g. for Chicago there's the Chicago Tech Slack (https://join.slack.com/t/chicago-tech/shared_invite/zt-1cb3m...), but you'll need to ex
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plore around.
Here's a list of slack groups someone maintains: https://github.com/ladyleet/tech-community-slacks
I'd also google "<area you live in> slack" or "<front end technology> slack". You could also look for discords, I hear discord is hot right now and several communities I follow have moved to it from slack.
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