We started building a bridge quite literally:
At the “Hackerbrücke” (English: “Hacker Bridge”) event in 2013. We knew: that Munich is not as boring as people think. The problem was: projects and people just did not know each other. So we invited all who are interested in tech and hacking and development to join each other for one full week of 20 talks, 13 workshops and an Open Space. We built a bridge between like-minded people and enabled them to collaborate.
Building bridges between members of the JavaScript community each year:
The annual “JSKongress” is a direct outcome and a collaborative effort between the people who started Hackerbrücke 2013 and the JavaScript community in Munich. JSKongress is a bridge between the JavaScript community members world wide: coming to Munich each year connects JavaScript people from all countries, backgrounds, shapes and sizes. JSKongress itself is a bridge as well: between the teams that actually develop the language itself and the users. Additionally, we encourage and support new speakers to join and contribute. We also intentionally invite people who are a minority in our current tech-community. We do all that because we believe in the strength of collaboration, respect, diversity, courage, and openness.
Do you see the pattern? :) We love to create opportunities. Sometimes you need to build a bridge for that.
But we also build bridges every single day at work:
- Between customers and Development Team, because we believe only working directly with each other can make complex software projects successful.
- Between ideas that customers create and the technical concepts to actually make them happen.
- Between extreme important timelines and the realistic planning of the implementation based on priority and knowledge.
- Between limitations of each person or environment and the benefit of collaboration to succeed with complex goals and tasks.
We are very good at building these kinds of bridges, and we have a long history that is telling us to keep on building them. We create these bridges: to create possibilities for a growing tech-community and the growing businesses of our customers. With great pleasure and success.