Community Works! ZendCon 2012

Learn how you can be a part of the PHP Community

Transcript

1. Community works!
2. Welcome at ZendCon2012
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. ?
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. Conferences
35. Learn from the people who wrote the tools you use…
36. …on a daily basis
37. They don’t bite!!!
38. Hallway tracks
39. “Fuel for solutions, ideas and in the end… results” Cal Evans - Blue Parabola
40. Participate in hackatons
41. You can make a difference
42. Leave feedback on http://joind.in
43. speakers and conference organizers
44. If you like the talk/conference, let them know
45. If you didn’t like it, explain what you didn’t like and how to do it better next time!
46. Used for Call for Paper proposals
47. user group meetings community events
48. Great for online resume
49. Check out mojolive.com!
50. It incorporates joind.in!
51. “Open-source is a lifestyle”
52. A state-of-mind
53. To give back or participate
54. Something you “just” do
55. It’s up to you
56. Meet project owners
57. “I didn’t realize so many developers used Phing” Michiel Rook, project lead of Phing
58. Having a backchannel
59. Bonus
60. Through open-source, I got in touch with big companies
61. It opens doors to new opportunities
62. Direct lines inside
63. Benefit for community & profession
64. The PHP community
65. We’re a family
66. Advice, support or new jobs
67. Recruitment
68. Tech communities are a magnet for recruiters
69. We’re NOT a job-board!
70. We met Lonnie Brown… Lonnie is a recruiter
71. But different…
72. “I've never seen a community so friendly & helpful as the PHP community” Lonnie Brown - Jacob Group
73. EARN THAT RESPECT
74. It’s passion that drives us
75. We all chip in our “free” time
76. And it’s easy to bash others
77. If you like the talks
78. Buy the speakers a beer
79. Or pizza
80. Or lock them in your trunk
81. Or simply say “thank you”
82. Michelangelo van Dam
83. slides: speakerdeck.com twitter: @dragonbe
84. marco: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremykendall/5763084584 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
85. Thank you! https://joind.in/7601 Please leave feedback to make this talk better