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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

Austin Startup

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At Galvanize at 10:30 am.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Web Application Penetration Testing: Features, Importance, and Tips

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Here are some resources that will help you get started with web application penetration testing: OWASP: The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a global community that develops open source security tools and provides information about security vulnerabilities.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. John Kieti is a major figure in the city’s startup community. Hersman also co-founded Ushahidi, an open source software firm. Sam Gichuru CEO at nailab.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

They took an open source approach, inviting thousands of collaborators from around the world to contribute potential solutions. None of this would have been possible without the open source contributions of thousands of scientists around the world. We are working on a open-source drug discovery project against COVID-19.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. Get involved in open source, as much as you can. Why do I say that? It’s not just one or two companies; it’s dozens; and it’s every week.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Why You’d Be Insane To Skip College For Startup Dreams

ReadWriteStart

While I’d be the first to argue that the best place to learn to code is to download and use open-source software, it was at my university that I was first forced to grapple with foreign concepts and others’ opinions. But it’s also irrelevant, at least for his first contention.