From PHP to organizing Nodebp

My journey from being a rookie PHP developer to start organizing the Hungarian Node.js Meetup Group

RisingStack was a proud sponsor of the conference: http://risingstack.com

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1. From a PHP rookie to
   organizing Nodebp
   Gergely Nemeth
   @nthgergo
   

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2. BEING A ROOKIE PHP DEVELOPER
   

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3. BUT NOT JUST PHP
   DEVELOPED WITH C, JAVA, C#
   

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4. ENOUGH.
   

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5. LET’S BUILD SOMETHING NEW
   http://tagmint.com
   

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6. LET’S BUILD SOMETHING NEW
   http://tagmint.com
   

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7. CALL IT A STARTUP, START EXPERIMENTING
   NODE, REDIS, MONGO, WEBSOCKETS
   

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8. WHY NODE ?
   

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9. HIGH PERFORMANCE
   

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10. DEVELOPER HAPPINESS
    “WHY GO TO FACEBOOK AND DO PHP WHEN
    YOU CAN GO TO PAYPAL AND DO NODE.JS”
    Bill Scott, PayPal
    

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11. PRODUCTIVITY
    - vibrant user-land (~100K in NPM)
    - more done with less developers
    - code size shrink
    

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12. JAVASCRIPT RUNS EVERYWHERE
    

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13. CALLBACK WAS ALREADY CALLED
    

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14. LEARN TO FLY
    

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15. GET BETTER
    

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16. REPEAT (YES, WE GOT STUCK AGAIN)
    

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17. STRUGGLE - MEETING NODE PPL WAS HARD
    

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18. START BUILDING A COMMUNITY
    

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19. BUT NOT ALONE
    

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20. NODEBP STARTED
    

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21. NODEBP FORMAT
    1st talk: for newcomers
    2nd talk: for experts
    3rd talk: a fun project
    https://github.com/knode/meetups/blob/master/budapest-hungary/nodebp.md
    

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22. NODEBEERS
    

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23. HOW DO YOU GET ALL THESE TALKS?
    GITHUB ISSUES!
    BE TRANSPARENT AND REACHABLE
    https://github.com/nodebp/nodebp
    

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24. REHEARSALS
    GIVE VALUABLE FEEDBACK TO SPEAKERS
    PRIOR TO THE MEETUP
    

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25. NODEBP STARTED
    BUT NOT JUST THE CLASSICAL MEETUPS
    http://nodebp.com
    

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26. NODESCHOOLS
    

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27. NODEBREAKFASTS
    

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28. THESE STUFFS ARE NOT NEW
    LOOK OUT FOR ROLE MODELS
    

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29. PROBLEMS WE FACED/FACE
    

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30. PROBLEMS WE FACED/FACE
    MOST PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW THE GLOBAL
    NODE COMMUNITY MEMBERS
    

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31. PROBLEMS WE FACED/FACE
    IT RAINS!
    

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32. PROBLEMS WE FACED/FACE
    TASK DELEGATION TO COMMUNITY LEADERS
    

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33. PROBLEMS WE FACED/FACE
    GET SPONSORS / EVENT VENUE
    

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34. THE NEXT STEP
    

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35. THE NEXT STEP
    http://oneshot.risingstack.com organized by
    

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36. THINGS TO TAKE HOME
    - learn on your own can be very challenging
    - start building a community
    - make friends
    - enjoy
    

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37. THANKS!
    Gergely Nemeth
    @nthgergo
    

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