May: Forem Twitch Events Roundup 👾
Tags: opensource, meta
Published: 2021-06-10 21:41:44

In May, Nick Taylor and I had the privilege to speak with 4 awesome guests. This is a round up of all the wonderful guests who joined us and a special pair programming episode where Nick and I talk about GitHub and contributing to open source projects.

## Walkthrough Wednesday with Jerome Hardaway
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Nick Taylor and Jerome Hardaway discussed [Vets Who Code](https://vetswhocode.io/), job hunting during the pandemic, habits, and more. 

Places to follow Jerome:
- [Personal Twitter](https://twitter.com/JeromeHardaway)
- [Vets Who Code](https://twitter.com/vetswhocode)


## Walkthrough Wednesday with Nick and Christina
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Nick and I talked about the DEV community Bug Smash, Contributing to open source, and some important  features of GitHub, and Git.

**A few of the links mentioned in the stream:**
- [Talk by Nick Taylor on Getting the Most Out of Open Source](https://www.iamdeveloper.com/pages/talks/#heading-getting-the-most-out-of-open-source)
- [Forem Docs](https://docs.forem.com/)
- [GitHub CLI](https://github.com/cli/cli)
{% post https://dev.to/devteam/join-us-for-the-first-dev-community-bug-smash-3plm %}
{% post https://dev.to/codesandboxio/how-to-make-your-first-open-source-contribution-2oim %}
{% post https://dev.to/unseenwizzard/learn-git-concepts-not-commands-4gjc %}

## Walkthrough Wednesday with Aisha Blake and Pachi Carlson
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Nick and I had so much fun talking toAisha Blake and Pachi Carlson – two members of New Relic’s DevRel team. We discussed DevRel, [The Relicans](https://www.therelicans.com/), streaming on Twitch and more. 

**Places to find Aisha:**
- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/AishaBlake)
- [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/AishaCodes)
- [DEV](https://dev.to/aishablake)

**Places to find Pachi:**
- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/pachicodes)
- [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/pachicodes)
- [DEV](https://dev.to/pachicodes)


##  Pair Programming with Meg Gutshall
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Nick Taylor and I were joined by Meg Gutshall to work on a Liquid tag issue on Forem. Check out the video to see Meg work through [this issue](https://github.com/forem/forem/issues/11880) and explain her method for debugging and contributing to open source. 

**Places to follow Meg:**
- [GitHub](https://github.com/meg-gutshall)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghan-gutshall/)
- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/meg_gutshall)

**Organizations she suggests:**
- [Ruby for Good](https://rubyforgood.org/)
- [Women Who Code Philadelphia](https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Philly/)
- [freeCodeCamp Philly](https://www.meetup.com/Free-Code-Camp-Philly/)
- [Meetup Self-Taught Software Developers](https://www.meetup.com/Philadelphia-Self-Taught-Developers-Meetup-Group/)


Thanks to all our viewers who joined the streams and chatted with us this month! 

Be sure to follow the [ThePracticalDev Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/thepracticaldev) channel to be notified when future streams begin and check out all the great guests we have joining us every Wednesday this month. 


**Our June guests currently include:**
- [Cassidy Williams](https://twitter.com/cassidoo), Principal Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify, [newsletter curator](https://cassidoo.co/newsletter/) and maker of [wonderful tech TikToks](https://twitter.com/cassidoo/status/1284201376516435968)

- [Hiroko Nishimura](https://twitter.com/hirokonishimura) AWS Hero, Founder of [AWS Newbies](https://twitter.com/awsnewbies), and instructor at LinkedIn and Egghead.