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
without debugging
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