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Philippine Tech Community

  • “Where can I find developers in the Philippines?” is a common question I receive from companies who are starting to build their IT team, expanding the IT functions or looking to find developers to use their technology.  Being in the tech community since 2011, below are 3 places you can find them:  Philippine Tech Community. To make your life easier, this website contains a directory of active tech communities in the country where most of them are developer communities or technology user groups. These communities regularly hosts in-person meetups you can attend. You can find links of their website, social…

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  • On its third year, DEVCON will once again bring the Biggest Developer Conference in the Philippines to the flourishing city of Cagayan de Oro. With the theme “The Future of Jobs, Embracing Industry 4.0”, this event is set to happen on November 9, 2019 at Capitol University. Bringing together 500 developers from all over Mindanao, this year’s summit will focus on how developers can leverage emerging technologies, evolve their skillset, and develop best practices. All of this brought by local and international personalities whose technologies, practices, and advocacies made an extensive impact in the IT industry and beyond. With Cagayan…

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  • You might be reading this article because you’re thinking how can I let go of the community I manage, have someone take over and continue the fire burning? I haven’t figured out the magic formula myself but I get asked this question many times. To give a little background about me, I led a student organization back in college that runs multiple small events and a major annual event with delegates across the region. A couple of months before graduation and very well deep into our thesis, I was no longer in practice leading the org as I passed on…

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  • Whether you’re a developer, an enthusiast or want to reach out to developers, here is your guide to the annual big developer conferences in the Philippines organized by different tech communities. DevCon Summit DEVCON Summit, known as The Biggest Developer Conference in the Philippines, is a national conference that aims to explore the development trends, best practices and tools in growing as a developer. Event is organized by DEVCON Philippines. function() & .class Organized by Philippine Web Designers Organization, the FFC is for advanced techniques in designing and developing for the web taught be the best in the world. GDG DevFest…

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  • The Tech Community Leads met last July 12, 2017 at Penbrothers to discuss what tool we use as we manage our communities. Attended by DevCon, AWS Users Group Philippines, Python Philippines, Philippine Flash Users, Mozilla Philippines Community, Wordpress Philippines, UX Philippines, International Game Developers Association (IGDA), Bicol IT Group, Philippine Android Developers Community (PADC), Drupal Pilipinas and Virtual Reality Philippines (VRPH). In summary, we shared what we use for communications, Marketing & Promotions, Events & Ticketing, On-the-day Tools and Post Event Tools. More on the specifics on a separate blog post. Thank you Raph of Penbrothers for hosting!

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  • Last July 14, I was invited to the Google Global Community Management Talks on the topic “Working With Sponsors” facilitated by Dan Franc, Google Developer Relations Program Manager from Czech. Topics covered were values that communities can provide to potential partners, how to find sponsors, how to engage a potential sponsor, information to send to a potential sponsor, managing sponsor’s expectations and working with sponsors post-event. Big thanks to Chelle Gray,  Community Manager – APAC, Developer Ecosystem Team of Google for the recommending me. I am no expert at the topic but I enjoyed sharing lessons and tips based on experience…

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