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
  • Warsaw Ruby User Group
  • PyWaw
  • MobileWarsaw
  • 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
  • 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, MobileWarsawWarsjawa, Mobile Central EuropeGitKata, NameCollision, Code Retreat

Speaker
Warsjawa, Confitura, 33rd Degree, 4Developers, WJUG, GitKata, PyWaw, PL PyCon, Mobilization, ...

The path

  1. One man army
  2. WJUG meetings
  3. Warsjawa
  4. Flash talk at Eclipse Demo Camp
  5. WJUG speaker, Confitura
  6. Organizer by accident
  7. CodeRetreat, NameCollision, GitKata
  8. MW, MCE, Warsjawa

Your turn


Lead, follow or get out of the way


Import


Follow up


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