This document discusses building a development community within the workplace. It begins by asking how to recreate the feelings of meetups and conferences internally. It suggests building community through shared learning, empowerment, and sharing. Technological approaches include community-oriented software like prototypes, personal projects, reusable codebases, and ways to benefit and inspire the community. Personal approaches include tech talks, daily standups, showcasing personal projects, hackathons, code challenges, and book clubs. It emphasizes the importance of communication, scaling ideas appropriately, and using external communities as a guide.

1. Building a
Development
Community Within
Your Workplace
Pat Viafore
@PatViaforever
DevSpace 2017

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StrangeLoop

16. I am a software engineer who
works in embedded telecom

19. I am a software engineer who
works in embedded telecom

20. I build software that controls fiber
optic hardware that provides
television, phone and internet at
gigabit+ speeds.

23. Narrator Voice: He is not

26. My Challenge To You

27. What can we do to get the same
feeling in our workplaces as we
do from meetups and
conferences?

28. Build a Community

29. Community (n) - a feeling of
fellowship with others, as a
result of sharing common
attitudes, interests, and goals

30. COMMUNITY
Learning
Empowerment Sharing

31. Why?

35. How?

36. TECHNOLOGICAL
PERSONAL

37. Technological

38. Community-Oriented Software

39. Spectrum of Community-Oriented
Software

40. Spectrum of Community-Oriented Software
(1) Prototype

41. Spectrum of Community-Oriented Software
(1) Prototype (2) Personal

42. Spectrum of Community-Oriented Software
(1) Prototype (2) Personal (3) Project

43. Spectrum of Community-Oriented Software
(1) Prototype (2) Personal (3) Project (4) Reusable

44. Spectrum of Community-Oriented Software
(1) Prototype (2) Personal (3) Project (4) Reusable (5) Extensible

45. Spectrum of Community-Oriented Software
(1) Prototype (2) Personal (3) Project (4) Reusable (5) Extensible
Community Benefits

46. Spectrum of Community-Oriented Software
(1) Prototype (2) Personal (3) Project (4) Reusable (5) Extensible
Community Benefits
$$$ Cost $$$

47. Solve Other’s Needs

48. Challenge Your Assumptions

49. Composability

50. It’s What You Ship

51. It’s More Than What You Ship

52. Communicate

53. Asynchronous Communication

54. https://xkcd.com/1296/ - Git Commit

58. Personal

59. Tech Talks

60. Dailies

61. IBATs
(I Built a Thing)

62. Hackathons

63. https://medium.com/netflix-
techblog/netflix-hack-day-winter-
2017-73590a2fe513

64. Code Challenges

65. Book Club

66. How To Get Started

67. Keep An Open Ear

68. Scale Appropriately

69. Schedule Appropriately

70. Find Ways To Inspire Others

71. Use External Communities as a
Guide

72. Communicate

74. Go Make a Difference