help yourself, grow an healthy ecosystem

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Help yourself,Grow a healthy ecosystem

francesco fulloneff@ideato.it

@fullo / @ideato

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CEO & Founder

Who am I

president

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Who am I

president

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no-profit association

no offices

online meetings

300 members in the whole country

promote good dev practices

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O!"# $p%! & '()#...

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Not enough

(real)

developers

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Companies don’t train properly their developers, freelancers don’t find (an excuse)

to learn high level stuff

Should we create something to help the

grown of a better ecosystem for (php)

developers?

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(an ecosystem building case study)

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* free* in italian* “for the community”

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It could work!

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After 5 editions we declare it a...

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(partial)

#FAILure

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* free => 40% drop-off rate* not appealing enough for the (foreign) php-rockstars* too many beginner talks

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we were limited by the

budget

L#&r!, D!, R"p"#$Conference is for pros

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Not for hobbyist but for pros!

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No more free tickets

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* book a better venue* invite foreign speakers* have some budget left for other activities

It’s not free but...we can

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English is our lingua franca

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languages evolution

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english italian

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* reached new attendees * introduced italian speakers to an international audience * facilitated international synergies

It’s not in italian so we...

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2003 2004

2006 2007

2008 2009

2010 2011

2012

2013500 tickets sold

300 attendees each day

L"#r%, D%, R"p"#$take back italian fellows

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The“PUG Program”

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Bring some love to the “other side of the community”

* Cheap (but not free) conferences in italian as a “gym” to raise new speakers and developers* Create connections with local companies* Write and translate books in italian

L"#r%, D!, R#p#&'helping ourself is to help other communities

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Raise the bet

and other 15 conferences...

L#&r!, D!, R"p"#$a lean process (?)

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jsDay + phpDay 201414th-17th May 2014 Veronawww.phpday.it / www.jsday.it

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