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How we’re changing Colombia through open-source communities

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T-shirt and Hoodie on the way. Great Colombia Dev logo. Best of luck on raising the funds you need. I'll try to go to a meet up next time I am in Colombia.

thanks, do let us know!! glad you liked the logo

Do you guys already have a date in mind for the 2016 jsconf. I would like to plan to be there and bring some my fellow Florida developer friends.

Re: How we’re changing Colombia through open-source communities

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As a 2nd generation Colombian myself (parents were born in raised in Barranquilla but I grew up in the states) I applaud you and your team for this effort. Colombia tech has always been a bit "behind" the times from my POV and unless efforts like this continue to grow & thrive then we can't elevate the overall education for the status quo, so thank you. I will be purchasing the sticker & t-shirt

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I'm English and living in Bogota.

I don't speak Spanish very well (taking lessons though) and have been kinda busy up to this point, and both these things have put me off seriously looking around at what's going on, but I would absolutely love to go to meetups in Bogota, just to meet fellow developers/entrepreneurs in the city.

I'd be completely at sea if the meetups were totally in Spanish, and though I wish it weren't the case it'd be basically pointless me being there with my present level, and since the BogotaJS page is written in Spanish I'm not sure if this would be the case here.

Anyway long story short, if anybody can point me towards any English-speaking development / entrepreneurship meetups in Bogota, please let me know (my email's on my profile) - or hey, if anyone's in a similar situation and interested, let's organise one!

Alternatively, if there's anything I can do, as a native English speaker, to help with BogotaJS I'd be more than happy to get involved.

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