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title: It All Started With A Patch
description: A lightning talk on how and why to get involved with open source.
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events:
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        name: PHP South West
        location: Bristol, UK
        url: https://phpsw.uk
        date: 2017-02-08
sortable_date: 2017-02-08
---

A crash course of why and how to get involved with open source.