<p>User groups are an essential part of software development culture. Starting a user group and building a community is not an easy task. Keeping your group running can be even harder.</p>
<p>In this episode, Scott chats with Andres Pineda about getting started with open source and how he helped kickstart the .NET user groups in the Dominican Republic.</p>
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<li><a target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer'  href="https://dotnetfoundation.org/get-involved">.NET Meetups and User groups</a></li>
<li><a target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer'  href="https://getinvolved.hanselman.com/">Become a social Developer</a></li>
<li><a target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer'  href="https://cdc.dev/">Caribbean Developers Conference</a></li>
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User groups are an essential part of software development culture. Starting a user group and building a community is not an easy task. Keeping your group running can be even harder.

In this episode, Scott chats with Andres Pineda about getting started with open source and how he helped kickstart the .NET user groups in the Dominican Republic.

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If you liked this video and would like to see some more of our .NET content, please subscribe to our [.NET Developers YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvtT19MZW8dq5Wwfu6B0oxw).


## Useful Links
* [.NET Meetups and User groups](https://dotnetfoundation.org/get-involved)
* [Become a social Developer](https://getinvolved.hanselman.com/)
* [Caribbean Developers Conference](https://cdc.dev/)

On.NET Episode: Building up open source developer communities in the Dominican Republic

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On.NET Episode: Building up open source developer communities in the Dominican Republic

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