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From YouTube: The world of Google developer communities - and how you can participate - Pati Jurek, Google

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Pati is the DevRel Regional Lead for DACH and will speak about Google's community efforts and how people within the Kubernetes communities would also be able to join different programs if they are interested.

Website: www.google.de

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I'm, basically, a developer relations manager for Google, and we are overlooking all of the developer communities. We have four and I will talk you through them and through how you can actually participate, and if it's relevant to you, because I do firmly believe it could be family familiar and relevant. To probably almost everyone. Thank you uh so, just to give you a little bit of an understanding what developer relations mean if you haven't been able to get in touch with any people like me.

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um Basically, we are on underground team and we are overlooking all the community programs uh we are consisting of Engineers, but also Community managers and our main job is to obviously Drive these Global programs. So they are on a global level. uh They exist in any country almost um and yeah. It's a basically it's a wonderful to many models so, depending on what activities are happening, it could be a conference like this one could be smaller, meetups, which you might have attended in the past or will in the future.

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But this is basically what we are doing and uh the main job surrounding that is obviously talking to people like you understanding what their needs are, understanding uh what they like about certain products and services, and we nurture them and we want to empower them.

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We want to give them the opportunity to learn new things and give us also feedback about these things, because usually people like you and people that use these Technologies on a very frequent basis are sort of kind of influencers, and they also give us a good understanding of what potentially needs to change with these products right. So we also very much rely on your feedback technically speaking, and not only me, but especially the dedicated product teams right. So this is also something we accommodate.

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So how does it work? And what is it going on? Basically, because it's a two-way street as I was kind of hinting it, so we partner up with these communities. It could be also individuals um which are called Google developer experts, um but basically we give them all the content to hand we support them when there's stuff like that Fest happening, which usually happens around the end of the year, uh but between September and December time, uh we uh help them with workshops. We help them with speakers. uh I'm usually well.

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I can be one of them, but also we connect them with relevant experts in the fields that they are interested in. So they are basically hosting meetups they're hosting workshops. It could be hackathons, it could be anything along those lines, uh but also communities are a big part of mentorship, so you could be on any side of that Spectrum. You could be a mentee who wants to develop yourself and the Community is a great resource of people that know things and they want to share it. That's basically the essential part of being in a community.

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However, it might be also your interest to Mentor people, because you have learned things along those lines. You have dealt with certain roadblockers and questions, and so you are keen on sharing. So that could be also another thing. The last thing that I want to highlight is obviously communities are essentially also a big Network right, so what people also get out of that is like learning from people in their Industries in their fields, but also getting to know people uh from other areas, potentially even future areas.

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You would like to work in and just expanding your network to a different degree on a global level on a regional level on a very small Cosmic level right. So it really depends on what you're interested in I wanted. To give you a little glimpse of why our community members really enjoy being part of the community, so I wanted to bring this little video with me, foreign.

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Expert on Google cloud and I'm leaving the source of friends my.

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Name is Alina I'm, a GTG leads and money makers.

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Ambassador from Poland.

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My name is Alessandro and I'm: the leader of Google Assistant, Club, University of Warwick and I'm, currently based in the UK I love the gdg community for the friends and passion the opportunity to go together while meeting new people is just an amazing opportunity that we all have being able to share the knowledge with the global Community. It's.

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Been connected with professionals all over the world.

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The biggest thing is the network of friendly supportive and just awesome. People.

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It's getting to know awesome, like-minded people from all over the world. The best part about being a part of this program is the enthusiasm among all the community members and how it really helped me in upgrading my skill set collaborate.

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With like-minded people not have an impact.

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The fact that, as a gdg leader, we can find and share best practices and it's really helpful right. Marcus.

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My favorite swag are shares because you can always wear one every day.

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Our favorite swag and these glasses.

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My favorite swag from the Google events is this mug I, absolutely love. This I got it from the Chrome Dev Summit, my favorite swag. This.

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Awesome, sweat and, of course,.

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My favorite swag is this:.

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Is my lucky GT sucks adios.

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Cool, so you might have already seen there's a lot of different topics right and you could host a community around any of the Google Technologies right. So um this is something that people are sometimes not aware of.

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Oops cool, so I'll give you a little bit of a Down drill of what our communities are, which areas exist and then I'll drill further down into the different programs and how it might be relevant to you. Gdg is probably the biggest program we have. It's called Google developer groups and it's essentially communities coming together. They are usually based on a location, so it could be gdg Berlin. In Berlin we actually have four different five different ones. We have gdg Berlin, we have gdg Cloud Berlin.

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We have women, Tech makers, Berlin, which I'll talk in a minute about and there's gdses. So there's a lot of them basically, and it really depends on what you're interested in gdg can host a variety of topics. It also depends on the organizers right they get together, but they also live off their community. So, if you're up, for instance, interested in some topics- and you would like to join them them, but they are not hosting anything that would be interesting to you.

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It's also part of your kind of Duty to reach out to them and tell them hey. This topic could be interesting. I might want to talk about this or I have maybe a contact from my network. That would be super suitable to talk about this. What do you think, because, ultimately, all of these people and all of these Community groups are volunteering right, so they do um they do it in their free time, and sometimes it would be super nice and helpful for them to also hear from the crowd. What are you interested in?

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um We are with gdg in more than 135 countries. um We have 44 in Germany, just by itself and uh yeah. We reach more than one million developers per year on average. um Obviously, the last two years were a little bit of a challenge. um A lot of them obviously differ to being virtual.

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um What have stayed since then, is that people tend to host now in person or hybrid events, which I think we are doing today as well. So that's something uh that they have learned. The biggest thing that's gonna happen this year is deaf, as I saw some people nodding already um and yeah. That's something that I'm really excited about, because it's the first one in two years that people actually come together again.

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Gdsc is actually the communities for students, so the difference between all of the other communities compared to gdsc is that the leads change every year, because, obviously not everyone stays at University forever. This is a good example of um basically giving more opportunities to for people to start out, because usually students don't have as much experience hosting events yet so it's the best learning curve to have to start building out your network to also learn things more on a practical basis because, depending on which university you have gone to, they have been more theoretical.

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So this is, for them a very big opportunity to bring in speakers to do Hands-On workshops and learn things as they go um currently. Actually, we have 14 groups in Germany again, um yeah, that's, basically it and also the application window is open for the next cohort. But I'll talk about this in a minute. Gdes are basically Google developer experts um and they are sort of the experts or like influencers of that topic, so they would go to like conferences.

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They might um choose also an area where they contribute, maybe with podcasts they might be doing online tutorials. So every DDE is different. They prefer different ways of contributing might be only mentoring people, um but they usually tend to also go to conference or meetups and would talk about their certain area. You usually host or you're an expert in one to three areas, depending on how broad your portfolios and your knowledge base, but yeah, it's kind of the influencers of the deaf ecosystem, I would call them.

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We have more than 70 now in Germany, and they range from all the Technologies right could be, Cloud could be, Android could be web could be kotlin anyways along those lines and the last one is women. Tech makers, it's women in Tech, it's about empowering uh the question I get for this. One the most is: is it only for women? Obviously, it's not. uh You can all be an ally so depending on, if these topics might be also your your interest or your jam, you are still welcome to join them.

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You're welcome to also become an ambassador for them. uh We do have male ambassadors, um but it's really up to you, because I feel, like people, think it's really exclusive for women and it's not right it's about breaking down those barriers. So if you really want to support this um also mentoring, maybe women to become more confident in their field, because what we've seen in the past, they never let the skill set.

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They only lack the being straightforward, applying proactively for conferences speaking at them, that's something where maybe you as an ambassador or man could help them more right. So that's a little bit of an overview. I'm diving a little bit more deeper in each one, who is part of a cool in Berlin, which ones.

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They are very active okay and you, okay, cool. How do you find it? What is like your experience.

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Not really that much.

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Okay, so probably join during the covert times. Okay, do you want to add something.

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Yeah I think in blues they are yeah yeah. Definitely the biggest.

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Biggest group in the city, yeah.

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Yeah, which is a it's it's pretty big and too loose. It is yeah, so yeah as I basically touched base on it's kind of community groups. It's like meetups, most of them. uh What does happen there right people come together. It might be also socializing. It doesn't necessarily need to be 100 technical. uh Another question we get a lot is: is it only about Google Technologies?

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No right, you can talk about technology, it should be your area where you're interested in and if you want to invite I, don't know different Cloud um uh companies and they talk about each other. What their ups and downs are. That's also valid point because, let's be honest, right A lot of people move towards multi-cloud.

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So what's the point of only talking about one, it's it's better for you to learn which ones are the upsides of each one, which would be more suitable for what you're working on, for instance, um the good thing about this is. uh It can be small scale large scale, depending on where the location is depending on how big the community is. It could be a good ground for you to start speaking.

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If that's something you would be interested in, but also starting to build a few more Regional Network um as I said, basically, the three main components is connecting people learning new technologies and also grow yourself and others so mentorship right.

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um And um why I talk about this is we do have a lot of communities or gdgs across that region across the world, but there's also still some that are lacking right. For instance, I give you a good example. If you are based, for instance, in Frankfurt, we do have a gdg there, but we don't have a cloud one right. So if you would be interested in finding or founding one in an area because there is none currently existing, that is also a possibility for every one of you right.

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You don't need to be an expert in order to to start a group like this, because in the end it lifts off the agendas you build it lives of the community. You build you, don't necessarily also need to host everything by yourself. Ideally, you bring in a few more people from your group or your Friendship Circle that are interested sit in the same things. You just need to be 80, be above 18 years old. I. Think almost everyone here is that, and you need to be passionate about that right event.

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Planning is something that you learn on the go um building out a network is something you will learn along those lines. It's really an easy way to start out. If you feel like hey I, think there is a lack of certain topics in the area. I live in I do believe. People would be joining me. Why not starting it out right.

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um Super easy: we all have code of conduct, that's something you need to adhere to, but essentially you want to create a safe space, so people can exchange their thoughts. They can give feedback. You have a valid or yeah comfortable conversation with the people in the community and no one is feeling unsafe and then it's really just applying and if you're, for instance, in the dark region, so Germany, Switzerland and Austria, this application will come to my email.

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um But if you do have any other question in regards to Google developer groups, I would highly recommend going first to the gdg community. Deaf. You can find all the events that are hosted there on a global scale by each groups there. So if there's Meetup, obviously a lot of them are on Meetup still, but we also have this joint Global uh platform, where you can find all the Google developer groups. Probably experts aren't sometimes intimidating and I have.

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To be honest, you will have to do interviews in order to become an expert, um because obviously experts have a certain kind of you know stamp on them. They are expert of a certain topic and we need to make sure they actually are and just not pretend to be so. What usually experts really have to take care of? Is two parts there's two components, one being passionate about contributing, so you have to find your area and, as I said briefly earlier, it could be a tutorial.

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It could be podcasts, it could be only conference talks whatever it is, but you need to be consistent with them and you need to like go on conferences. You need to publish podcasts uh episodes every now and then you need to stay consistent. You need to have a reach to people and another question we get a lot is: do I only have to contribute in English? No there's people who speak your language and there will be people speaking that language that you might particularly choose that are also developers in that area.

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You will obviously probably minimize the reach, but if it's still relevant and people need that support in their language- and- let's be honest, not everyone is like native speaker right, so some people will contribute in Spanish. Some people will do it in Russian. We have people doing it in in Polish, actually Polish Community, Super Active as well.

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So that's also something you can do and as Mario said again, you don't need to only always talk about that area, that you are an expert in right, you're, an expert for a reason, which also means you need to understand that competitive landscape and what's going on the trends, any future kind of steps towards that but yeah. Basically, we do have um two interviews about your community contributions, which I usually uh done by community members.

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So they are not cougars, but then uh also your area of expertise will be tested by the product team that works on that particular field.

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um Don't get uh intimidated, I, say interviews, but actually it should be a conversation right so and it usually feels that way, at least from the feedback that I have heard in the past.

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um If that's your interest feel free to reach out, there's actually very many categories and we are trying to expand them as products and services become more senior and they they get a lot of different areas.

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um Here's just a nice overview of a few uh gdes. We have here in Germany, um but if you want to learn more about this, it's developers.google.com experts right again, if you have questions, feel free to reach out to The Experts directly, because they will give you a very straightforward answer like Mario, but also you are more than welcome. To always reach out to me.

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Gonna be very brief on the students clubs, because uh most of you have left your University, but that doesn't mean you can't recommend it to uh your past year university. But, as I mentioned, it's really about starting out as a developer, building out your connections, learning about event uh handling, but also getting hands-on experience on the Technologies. You read about usually right. We are opening up the applications for the next year and it's closing actually in next week, so 5th of July.

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If you do happen to have connections to interested students that that might be of interest for feel free to reach out to them, sending them the website or come to me and I can share some specific material if you want to share it in your wider team.

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Basically, people just need to have one year left before graduating and a lot of people even stay on, because because you might move from Bachelor to a master's degree or even to PhD, we have people from all of these areas being a gdsc lead um yeah, but again, basically, all of our websites go to developers.google.com and then community and we have sub websites for each of the communities.

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Last but not least, and I want to leave some a few minutes for questions. It's women, Tech makers we have more than uh we are actually in 190 countries. There I'm the European lead for the women Tech makers program and it has annual kind of events like the international women's day. That is, on the 8th of March. So we usually have a whole season similar to the deafest season in March and April, um and then there's also now starting a new program.

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It's called ambassador program or Academy, where we are trying to give them all the different pillars of expertise to hand. So it will be technical stuff. It will be soft skills but also event management, Community, Management kind of things.

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Everyone can become a woman take maker again, it's really about your contribution and consistency and being in touch with your community, um and we are opening up the application window for that again on the 1st of August.

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um One thing I want to really highlight here is you can actually be part of more than one program so giving you as an example Mario who has spoken about the Google developer. Experts program is also a lead of a gdg and Munich cloud, and you can also, for instance, be a woman, Tech makers on top of that, they don't need to be necessarily split and they are not cannibalizing each other.

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They usually work well together, it's really up to you to decide how much of an effort and time you want to put into your voluntary commitments right because they do have certain commitments or conditions like being active at least once in 90 days.

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So that's really a thing, and if you, it really depends on how much time and effort and mentorship you want to put into that and I have one last thing, because obviously we are here for kubernetes but I, uh and that means uh probably a lot of you work with Cloud specific topics, so I'm working on a new project and I would like to Showcase more of individual voices and stories uh from people or Cloud developers, and it could be any Topic in the cloud Universe right.

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So if you would be interested in doing a case, study um and I tell you why it would be cool because in the end, you're sharing, maybe your biggest accomplishment, maybe the biggest solution. You have found for a certain problem where you were not being supported through I. Don't know online Forum to like find the solution, but you have worked it out yourself or you implemented something from scratch for your company. It really is the focus about you, your experience and what what you want to share with the fellow um yeah developers.

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uh If you are interested in partaking, because that means we would have a blog post- and we have a video of you talking about your experience, it's really for you from you for people that are Cloud developers, so there's not marketing stuff involved that much it's really about sharing your story uh if you're interested feel free to reach out to me, thank you for having me and again, if you do have questions that come up later, feel free to reach out no hesitation there. Thank you.