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

THANK YOU

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