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From PHP to organizing Nodebp

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

Gergely Nemeth

October 04, 2014
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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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