GeeCON 2014 Prague Keynote slides. Short presentation about the importance of creating and building developer community in the Czech Republic. Delivered on stage in Prague on October 23, 2014.

1. Ondřej Krajíček @hedragon @ysoftdevs

2. Welcome to GeeCON

3. GeeCON in Prague

4. here we are
DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

5. ✦ How many of you took part in a user group event in the last month?
✦ How many of you are working on / for a startup?
✦ How many of you have contributed to an open source project in the
last month?

6. Have you ever wondered, why
somewhere good ideas grow?

7. And somewhere,
they are just dying?

8. Sense of Ownership

9. The more you contribute,
the more you can get in return.

10. And its better to own a part of
something…

11. All contributions count…
as big as building the next big thing,
as small as attending a meetup.

12. Y Soft

13. ❖ To show that it can be done!
❖ Y Soft Technology Hours
❖ Y Soft University Relations
❖ Y Soft Venture Capital

14. WHY?

16. Two days of learning and sharing
knowledge.
No matter where we come from.

17. This is a result of contribution
of many dedicated people.
Including YOU!

18. The more you contribute,
the more you can get in return.

19. ★ Attend a meetup.
★ Join an existing project and contribute to it.
★ Help organizing a meetup or a conference.
★ Take your time to support your local user group.
★ Teach.
★ Or something completely different…
The more you contribute,
the more you can get in return.

20. The more you contribute,
the more you can get in return.
Think about your contribution.

21. The more you contribute,
the more you can get in return.
Think about your contribution.
Because right now,
you are building
the developer community.

22. “Perfection is achieved, not when there is
nothing more to add, but when there is
nothing left to take away.”
–Antoine de Saint Exupéry