Introduction to DevStaff

or why we have gathered here

Nikos Kampitakis

July 9, 2015

Heraklion

Who are you?

• Software developer @ imgZine
• Founder @ webtrails digital agency
• Founder @ office_12 coworking office
• Dev since 2001& professional since 2007

My name is Nikos Kampitakis and I am:

I love:

• Solid workflows
• Agile methodologies
• Automation
• NodeJS
• tl;dr

What is this?

DevStaff Meetups: The developers' community gathering

• We don't know exactly.. yet!
• But
  • there is a local community of skilful developers
  • involved in interesting projects
  • eager to improve themselves
  • ready to do impressive stuff
• My view: Expansion of my work space

Why meetups?

1) Expose the local dev community!

2) We read tech articles everyday. Let's discuss about them!

3) We face and solve issues everyday. Let's share our ways of doing it!

4) Best practices: Discover new & better ways of working (together)

5) Find out what's hot in the (Cretan) dev scene

6) Help others to overcome similar issues/situations

7) Education

8) Add yours! What would you expect?

How to participate

Places:

• Meet ups (usually the 2nd Thursday of each month)
• Github: https://github.com/devstaff-crete/DevStaff-Heraklion
• Meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/DevStaff-A-Developer-Community-Gathering-In-Crete/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Devstaff
• Website: http://devstaff.gr/

Actions:

• Speak up & discuss!
• Propose a topic
• Vote for a topic
• Present a topic
• Propose changes

Propose a topic (1/2)

https://github.com/devstaff-crete/DevStaff-Heraklion/issues

Propose a topic (2/2)

Vote for a topic (1/2)

Vote for a topic (2/2)

The next topic will be selected based on the votes a week after the current meetup.

So, hurry up!

Contributing

In order to propose changes:

• Fork
• Make your changes
  • Preferably new branch
  • Do stuff
  • Commit
  • Push
• Create a pull request

Present a topic

• The topic has to be proposed and voted
• 2 months time to prepare (usually)
• We can help you!
• We use slides.com, prezi and other nice tools
• Preferably written in English
• Presentations will be committed to the repository and uploaded on the website

Next meetups

Thursday, September 10, 2015 20:00

Thursday, October 8, 2015 20:00

Visit
https://github.com/devstaff-crete/DevStaff-Heraklion/issues
to vote for the next topic!

Thank you!

Nikos Kampitakis

@kabitakis

https://gr.linkedin.com/in/kabitakis

nikos@webtrails.gr