The Social Developer

STORY TIME

I once met a developer depressed of not being able to SHARE

I'm Christian (Codebeast) Nwamba

• JavaScript Preacher
• Cloudinary Advocate
• Scotch Advocate
• Consultant Technical Writer
• Learning Facilitator
• forLoop & Angular Nigeria Organizer

What defines a Social Developer?

Ability to share as much developer knowledge as your local and global ecosystem deserves

Note::

• Sharing knowledge
• Reaching out to local and global communities
• Distributed learning

AFRICA

needs more

LOVE

Common Practices

CONTENT Creation

COMMUNITY Participation

OSS Contributions

Boils down to:

Contents

Community

OSS

Contents

How?

• Technical writing

• Screencast recording

• Book Authoring
• Github Gists
• Social Media Contents

Where?

• Medium

• Scotch.io

• Sitepoint

COMMUNITY

HOW

• Meetups
• Hackathons
• Peer Coding
• Conferences
• Unconferences
• Webinars
• Workshops

WHERE

• forLoop
• Angular Nigeria
• Laravel Nigeria
• Online Events
• GDGs
• Colleagues
• Friends & Fam

OSS

HOW?

• Simple Solutions
• Demos
• Gists
• Fixes
• Docs

WHERE?

• Github, et al.
• Heroku, et al.
• Codepen, et al.

Personality

• Be SINCERE about what you know
• Be APPROACHABLE
• Have a positive ATTITUDE
• Look SMART and a little TRENDY
• People's CONSOLATION
• Have TIME to converse and choose a platform
• Definitely HUMBLE
• Be reasonably GENEROUS

BENEFITS

• Exposure
• Exposure (Success Stories)
• Growth
• Learning
• Lifetime Experiences
• Travel Opportunities
• Lots of gadgets
• Inner Peace and Real Happiness