Community Works! - Boston PHP North East 2012

Talk given at the Boston PHP North East 2012 Conference at Microsoft NERD center

Transcript

1. Community works!
2. Welcome at PHP North East
3. Great speakers
4. Started all just like you!
5. Take notes
6. Discover new tools
7. Discuss with colleagues
8. Blog your experiences
9. Extend the community
10. Passion
11. Elizabeth Naramore
12. “Passion moves us forward in the face of stagnation”
13. “with the right ingredients, awesome communities are born”
14. “and ideas come to life”
15. Github
16. it’s all about sharing collaborative source control
17. But what is Git?
18. Travis Swicegood
19. He wrote THE book
21. And he did
22. Knowledge
23. Lorna Jane Mitchel
24. Don’t give a man a fish
25. Teach a man how to fish
26. User group meetings
27. Interactions Presentations
28. Google: php ug <location>
29. If none exists in your area…
30. You’re the one to start one!
31. How to get the word out?
33. Local businesses
34. Local businesses User group meetings in their mailings and newsletters
35. Conferences
36. Learn from the people who wrote the tools you use…
37. …on a daily basis
38. They don’t bite!!!
39. Hallway tracks
40. “Fuel for solutions, ideas and in the end… results” Cal Evans - Blue Parabola
41. Participate in hackatons
42. You can make a difference
43. Leave feedback on http://joind.in
44. speakers and conference organizers
45. If you like the talk/conference, let them know
46. If you didn’t like it, explain what you didn’t like and how to do it better next time!
47. Used for Call for Paper proposals
48. user group meetings community events
49. Great for online resume
50. Check out mojolive.com!
51. It incorporates joind.in!
52. “Open-source is a lifestyle”
53. A state-of-mind
54. To give back or participate
55. Something you “just” do
56. It’s up to you
57. Meet project owners
58. “I didn’t realize so many developers used Phing” Michiel Rook, project lead of Phing
59. Having a backchannel
60. Bonus
61. Through open-source, I got in touch with big companies
62. It opens doors to new opportunities
63. Direct lines inside
64. Benefit for community & profession
65. The PHP community
66. We’re a family
67. Advice, support or new jobs
68. Recruitment
69. Tech communities are a magnet for recruiters
70. We’re NOT a job-board!
71. We met Lonnie Brown… Lonnie is a recruiter
72. But different…
73. “I've never seen a community so friendly & helpful as the PHP community” Lonnie Brown - Jacob Group
74. EARN THAT RESPECT
75. It’s passion that drives us
76. We all chip in our “free” time
77. And it’s easy to bash others
78. If you like the talks
79. Buy the speakers a beer
80. Or pizza
81. Or lock them in your trunk
82. Or simply say “thank you”
83. Michelangelo van Dam
84. slides: speakerdeck.com twitter: @dragonbe
85. Boston skyline: http://www.flickr.com/photos/willemvanbergen/271214939 red carpet: http://www.flickr.com/photos/blueparabola atmosphere: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonbe/5781101735 pizza: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshholmes/6780921185 david: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshholmes/6781029955 blog: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spooons/3550066388 passion: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremykendall/5762494735/ elizabeth: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bittarman/5416148385 github: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremykendall/5145916501 travis: http://www.flickr.com/photos/akrabat/4065549910 liz smith: http://www.flickr.com/photos/akrabat/4064794011 anna: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremykendall/5762537491 knowledge: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshholmes/6774850103 conferences: http://www.flickr.com/photos/blueparabola/5759121278 attendees: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonbe/5781136655 michiel: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuartherbert/6232038620 chuck norris: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andriesss/4024563530 bbq: http://www.flickr.com/photos/felixdv/3883257119 community: http://www.flickr.com/photos/akrabat/5787516267 michelangelo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dasprid/5148937451 creative commons: http://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman/2799490154 thank you: http://www.flickr.com/photos/akrabat/5823912587 hallway tracks: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremykendall/5765034636 hackathons: http://www.flickr.com/photos/akrabat/5823926421
86. Thank you! https://joind.in/6837 Please leave feedback to make this talk better