Changing face of Developer Communities in the time of Covid-19
summary
Recommends converting meetups and summits to virtual formats to cut venue and travel costs while increasing reach to hundreds of thousands of viewers and even sustaining 120k active virtual hours for a global audience. Advises choosing platforms with breakout support and fallback streaming, creating Tubelight channels or Slack plus a mailing list and a central issue tracker/GitHub repo for contributions, enforcing a clear code of conduct, capping live breakout groups at ~15 people, and publishing on‑demand recordings.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to talk
- 1:55Shift to virtual events
- 4:54Benefits of online communities
- 7:25Organizing virtual events
- 10:18Building open source communities
- 13:35Engaging community members
- 16:27Open source ecosystem growth
- 19:19Future of developer communities
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