Community
And why do you need it
Wojtek Erbetowski
Boom!
Engineers wanted!
The search
pracuj.pl, infopraca, praca gazeta, ...
LinkedIn, GoldenLine
Meetups, conferences, trainings
The search
Requirements
Perspective team
Technologies, methodologies
Who are you looking for?
Good salary
Bleeding edge
Localization
Skilled team
Adjust your expectations
Common practices
Salaries
Good habits
How do you find them?
Friends
Sponsors
Speakers
Let them find you
LinkedIn up to date
Twitter activity
GitHub/StackOverflow stats
Have a tech blog
Passionate only
Hard to maintain if you don't like it
Extra activities are cool when it's your hobby
Conference agenda
Conference agenda
Conference agenda
Choosing right event
What is your goal?
Who do you want to meet?
How do you get financing?
Options
-
Warsaw Java User Group
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Warsaw Ruby User Group
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PyWaw
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MobileWarsaw
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AgileWarsaw
-
Warsaw Hadoop User Group
-
Google Developers Group
Options
- GeeCON
- 33rd Degree
- Confitura
- Warsjawa
- JDD
- 4Developers
- DevCrowd
Options
- Devoxx, Devoxx UK
- JFokus
- JavaOne
- ScalaDays
- GOTO ...
Options
- Mobile Central Europe
- PL PyCon
- RuPy
- AgileByExample
- Agile CE
- Mobilization
- ...
Options
- GitKata
- TestKata
- HackWaw
- Jitter
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Makerland
- Agile Development Day
- Global Day of Code Retreat
Cost
Ticket
Transport / accommodation
Day off
Don't hate the diversity
Quality takes it's place
No more empty time slots
No more blank areas
No more uncovered subjects
No more bored devs
The very beginning
Local user group
Randomize from time to time
Local conference
Speak up!
The second step
Speak, lead, organize, share
Help!
Who might help?
How to ask?
My name is...
Developer
Java, Groovy, Scala, Python
Organizer
Warsaw Java User Group, MobileWarsaw, Warsjawa, Mobile Central Europe, GitKata, NameCollision, Code Retreat
Speaker
Warsjawa, Confitura, 33rd Degree, 4Developers, WJUG, GitKata, PyWaw, PL PyCon, Mobilization, ...
The path
- One man army
- WJUG meetings
- Warsjawa
- Flash talk at Eclipse Demo Camp
- WJUG speaker, Confitura
- Organizer by accident
- CodeRetreat, NameCollision, GitKata
- MW, MCE, Warsjawa
Your turn
Lead, follow or get out of the way
Import
- Images: community, dotcom bubble, committee
- "Lead, follow or get out of the way!" George S. Patton
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Warsaw Java User Group
- Mobile Warsaw
- Mobile Central Europe
- Warsjawa
- GitKata
Follow up
Home/blog: erbetowski.pl
Twitter: erbetowski
GitHub:
wojtekerbetowski
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By Wojtek Erbetowski
