Win Free Ticket to DevBeat: What Developers Inspire You?

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Our friends at VentureBeat are holding a new developer event,DevBeat, November 12-13 in San Francisco. They’ve offered two awesome offers for the Linux community.

First of all, Linux.com readers get 25% off just byclicking herefor the discount.

Next, if you’re looking to score a free ticket, we’ve got three of them! But we want to learn more about what developers inspire you, so we’re running a contest on Twitter. Tweet what developer(s) inspire you using both the #DevBeat hashtag and #DevBeatLinux. We’ll draw three winners Friday.

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Here’s a little bit more about the event, provided by the VentureBeat folks.

What to Expect:

  • Take ‘master classes’ on Node, Angular, Python, Ruby, Java, and more
  • Dive into workshops on security, design, and dev team leadership
  • Hear talks from hackers like DHH, Stallman, Lerdorf, and many others
  • Make decisions about what to learn, do, and be in the years to come
  • Hack hardware hands-on with your peers
  • Venture deeper into polyglot territory

Participants include:

  • Richard Stallman, Founder, Free Software Foundation
  • Rasmus Lerdorf, Creator, PHP
  • David Heinemeir Hansson, Creator, Ruby on Rails
  • Tim Bray, Dev Advocate, Google
  • Tom Preston-Werner, Co-Founder & CEO, GitHub
  • Raymond Camden, Senior Developer Evangelist, Adobe
  • Jeff Lawson, Co-Founder and CEO, Twilio
  • Alex Payne, Programmer, Writer & Angel Investor
  • Tracy Chou, Engineer, Pinterest, 
  • Hadi Partovi, Co-Founder & CEO, Code.org
  • John Ellis, Head of Dev Program, Ford
  • Edward Hieatt, COO, Pivotal Labs
  • Jonathan LeBlanc, Principal Developer Evangelist, PayPal
  • Eric Minick, DevOps Evangelist, IBM
  • See them all here