You've written in the past about the importance of talks for open source projects' adoption. How would you recommend a developer new to the community approach this?
Back in 2011, I was working with ActionScript but what I really wanted to do was HTML5. My father always said that if I wanted to learn something for real, I'd have to teach it. So I sent a proposal to speak about HTML5 at a free software forum in a very small city.
I didn't expect them to accept it but they did. I had no experience with HTML5 and had to give an entire presentation about it. I could have freaked out and give them some lame excuse for not to do it, but I put myself together and studied like crazy. Couple weeks later I gave the talk and survived to tell this story.
You see, most people think they should be experts in order to give a talk. That is just not true. Once you realize that every human being is different and we all have the capacity to teach something to someone else, you'll understand that you can do anything.
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