Igniting Nerves

In the tradition of the Underjord.pre_hack series of events where I put on a small event before the event so a clump of folks can become buddies before the conference and also get to touch keyboards a bit together we are now doing one that requires no real interest in Nerves but will help the Nerves project.

So we do this now before ElixirConf EU in Krakow. Kudos to Software Mansion for providing the space.

We are adding Igniter tasks to Nerves libraries. Elixir knowledge required, some enthusiasm recommended. That's it.

Also welcome if you are not attending the conference. The hack/workshop is free to attend.

Pre-register here: https://lu.ma/fjp0zgrm

Availability

We have availability coming up for the end of June, possibly earlier if needed.

We have two experienced Elixir developers that have done a fair bit of Phoenix both backend and more widely full-stack, a little bit of Nerves and a wild variety of frontend frameworks.

Oh, and me. I'll probably have capacity too. I do a lot of various Elixir, a fair bit of Nerves.

Respond to the email or schedule a meeting and we can discuss your needs.

Sessions selection is done. Will start informing speakers and announcing the line-up as it resolves.

So incredibly excited. It will be ridiculous.

Love my program committee. They've been great!

Hey, if you get your ticket early you help us know the ceiling of our budget earlier and then we can plan more good stuff.

Get your ticket!

Meanwhile in Chattanooga...

Yesterday Jon was on stage demystifying Nerves and of course Alex spoke as well. NervesConf US. Heck of a thing. Latest update was pizza. And I suppose they go into GigCity Elixir day 1 now. You'll note I refer to these people by their first names. I know them. This was not always the case.

Conference talks were a massive part of getting me into Elixir. I've mentioned I got introduced to the language conceptually by the CTO I worked under at the time who came from Ruby and was excited about Elixir. Then I started looking at conference talks. This was when Phoenix Channels was new and Phoenix Presence showed up soon after. This was when Nerves showed firmware updates over SSH with mix upload as sort of the early steps of the framework. I was never at the conferences. But I learned about the major progress and big concepts through conference talks.

Conference talks are massively important for the community as well. It gives us that hack on open source some kind of deadline for showing things off, beyond whatever the day job requires. It also helps distribute talks to people that aren't massively online and track the socials, track github and so on. If you just work with this stuff or are interested you might hear that the talks have dropped after a conference. Then you have your near-term watching laid out for you.

Conferences as events are very important to me ever since I started attending them and even more so since I started speaking at them. Reconnecting with the people of the community is big for me and really helps maintain energy and momentum. It refreshes the reserves for me and solves a lot of frustrations. Having an excited conversation in person can reset 2 years of built up minor frictions in a peer relationship. It's wild.

My first few conferences I essentially didn't know anyone and didn't have anyone to hang with beyond who I could connect with at the event. This was okay but challenging. I had some kind of lonely events before I got things rolling. I try to be welcoming now that I know a lot of people in the community, never hesitate to roll up and talk to me. I have this practice of creating small pre-events for conferences where we can establish connections in a smaller group which we then bring into the conference. Hopefully helping break the ice for people.

The technology is the thing we revolve around but the people are what makes it happen and this is the most high-bandwidth way of meeting the people. I'm always surprised by the people I meet who I've met online as well as the people I meet that are never online.

I'm very envious of not being in Chattanooga right now. The Tates put on a great event and missing a Nerves event just kills me. But I won't be going to the US very much near term, them is the breaks. Next week: ElixirConf EU

Will I see you in Krakow? You can reach me here on email, on the fediverse where I'm @lawik@hachyderm.io, on Bluesky or by responding to this email to lars@underjord.io.

Thank you for reading. I appreciate you.

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