Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

Building a Beginner-Friendly Community

aimeesimone
June 13, 2013
Programming
0
58

Building a Beginner-Friendly Community

A talk given at the Orlando Ruby Users Group on June 13, 2013 by Sarah Sheehan and Aimee Simone

aimeesimone

June 13, 2013
Tweet

More Decks by aimeesimone

See All by aimeesimone
How a Request Becomes a Response
aimeesimone
8
900

Other Decks in Programming

See All in Programming
AIの力でお手軽Chrome拡張機能作り
taiseiue
0
170
Software Architecture
hschwentner
6
2.1k
Kubernetes History Inspector(KHI)を触ってみた
bells17
0
230
ファインディの テックブログ爆誕までの軌跡
starfish719
2
1.1k
『テスト書いた方が開発が早いじゃん』を解き明かす #phpcon_nagoya
o0h
PRO
2
280
color-scheme: light dark; を完全に理解する
uhyo
5
390
法律の脱レガシーに学ぶフロントエンド刷新
oguemon
5
740
Pythonでもちょっとリッチな見た目のアプリを設計してみる
ueponx
1
570
『GO』アプリ バックエンドサーバのコスト削減
mot_techtalk
0
140
Linux && Docker 研修/Linux && Docker training
forrep
24
4.5k
バックエンドのためのアプリ内課金入門 (サブスク編)
qnighy
8
1.8k
PHP ステートレス VS ステートフル 状態管理と並行性 / php-stateless-stateful
ytake
0
100

Featured

See All Featured
Visualizing Your Data: Incorporating Mongo into Loggly Infrastructure
mongodb
45
9.4k
Fontdeck: Realign not Redesign
paulrobertlloyd
83
5.4k
The MySQL Ecosystem @ GitHub 2015
samlambert
250
12k
How GitHub (no longer) Works
holman
314
140k
Being A Developer After 40
akosma
89
590k
Producing Creativity
orderedlist
PRO
344
39k
GraphQLとの向き合い方2022年版
quramy
44
13k
Java REST API Framework Comparison - PWX 2021
mraible
28
8.4k
Responsive Adventures: Dirty Tricks From The Dark Corners of Front-End
smashingmag
251
21k
The Invisible Side of Design
smashingmag
299
50k
Save Time (by Creating Custom Rails Generators)
garrettdimon
PRO
29
1k
Principles of Awesome APIs and How to Build Them.
keavy
126
17k

Transcript

  1. Building a Beginner- Friendly Community by Sarah Sheehan & Aimee

    Simone Friday, June 14, 13

  2. Introduction Who are we? Friday, June 14, 13

  3. Introduction Why are we here? Friday, June 14, 13

  4. Introduction Why are we talking about this? Friday, June 14,

    13

  5. Introduction Come for the code. Stay for the community. Friday,

    June 14, 13

  6. Introduction Come for the community. Stay for the code. Friday,

    June 14, 13

  7. Introduction What can we do better? Friday, June 14, 13

  8. Community Workshops Friday, June 14, 13

  9. Workshops “Does anybody have any questions?” Friday, June 14, 13

  10. Workshops Engagement & Fun Friday, June 14, 13

  11. Workshops Don’t be afraid to be too basic. Friday, June

    14, 13

  12. Workshops But don’t explain things away with magic. Friday, June

    14, 13

  13. Workshops “Assume your audience has zero knowledge but infinite intelligence.”

    Friday, June 14, 13

  14. Workshops Post-mortem Friday, June 14, 13

  15. Community Conferences Friday, June 14, 13

  16. Conferences Be up front about assumptions. Friday, June 14, 13

  17. Conferences Show smaller bits of code. Friday, June 14, 13

  18. Conferences Provide context. Friday, June 14, 13

  19. Conferences Give real examples. Friday, June 14, 13

  20. Conferences Avoid “it’s so easy!” Friday, June 14, 13

  21. Conferences Emphasize community Friday, June 14, 13

  22. Conferences “Let’s build things together” vs “Let me prove how

    smart I am.” Friday, June 14, 13

  23. Community Meetups Friday, June 14, 13

  24. Meetups Encourage more beginners to speak. Friday, June 14, 13

  25. Meetups Talk to people. Friday, June 14, 13

  26. Meetups Make it personal. Friday, June 14, 13

  27. Meetups Don’t bro down. Friday, June 14, 13

  28. Open Source http://www.codetriage.com Friday, June 14, 13

  29. Become a Mentor http://www.pairprogramwith.me/ Friday, June 14, 13