From PHP to organizing Nodebp

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

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1. From a PHP rookie to organizing Nodebp Gergely Nemeth @nthgergo
2. BEING A ROOKIE PHP DEVELOPER
3. BUT NOT JUST PHP DEVELOPED WITH C, JAVA, C#
4. ENOUGH.
5. LET’S BUILD SOMETHING NEW http://tagmint.com
6. LET’S BUILD SOMETHING NEW http://tagmint.com
7. CALL IT A STARTUP, START EXPERIMENTING NODE, REDIS, MONGO, WEBSOCKETS
8. WHY NODE ?
9. HIGH PERFORMANCE
10. DEVELOPER HAPPINESS “WHY GO TO FACEBOOK AND DO PHP WHEN YOU CAN GO TO PAYPAL AND DO NODE.JS” Bill Scott, PayPal
11. PRODUCTIVITY - vibrant user-land (~100K in NPM) - more done with less developers - code size shrink
12. JAVASCRIPT RUNS EVERYWHERE
13. CALLBACK WAS ALREADY CALLED
14. LEARN TO FLY
15. GET BETTER
16. REPEAT (YES, WE GOT STUCK AGAIN)
17. STRUGGLE - MEETING NODE PPL WAS HARD
18. START BUILDING A COMMUNITY
19. BUT NOT ALONE
20. NODEBP STARTED
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
22. NODEBEERS
23. HOW DO YOU GET ALL THESE TALKS? GITHUB ISSUES! BE TRANSPARENT AND REACHABLE https://github.com/nodebp/nodebp
24. REHEARSALS GIVE VALUABLE FEEDBACK TO SPEAKERS PRIOR TO THE MEETUP
25. NODEBP STARTED BUT NOT JUST THE CLASSICAL MEETUPS http://nodebp.com
26. NODESCHOOLS
27. NODEBREAKFASTS
28. THESE STUFFS ARE NOT NEW LOOK OUT FOR ROLE MODELS
29. PROBLEMS WE FACED/FACE
30. PROBLEMS WE FACED/FACE MOST PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW THE GLOBAL NODE COMMUNITY MEMBERS
31. PROBLEMS WE FACED/FACE IT RAINS!
32. PROBLEMS WE FACED/FACE TASK DELEGATION TO COMMUNITY LEADERS
33. PROBLEMS WE FACED/FACE GET SPONSORS / EVENT VENUE
34. THE NEXT STEP
35. THE NEXT STEP http://oneshot.risingstack.com organized by
36. THINGS TO TAKE HOME - learn on your own can be very challenging - start building a community - make friends - enjoy
37. THANKS! Gergely Nemeth @nthgergo