Building up open source developer communities in the Dominican Republic
summary
Starts a .NET scene in the Dominican Republic by bootstrapping local meetups around 2010, creating the first C# user group and a Xamarin/mobile group, coaching new speakers to overcome stage fear and co-present, and mentoring contributors through their first pull requests. Grows multiple groups where Python came first, uses a physical Pineda axe coin as a scholarship token to pay people forward to next year’s code camp, and reports that the coaching plus scholarships actually brings repeat speakers and sustained community activity.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 0:30Bootstrapping a .NET open source community
- 2:07Seeding a young user group
- 4:09Involving non English speaking colleagues
- 5:57Paying it forward with scholarships
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