Luke Melia on Community: The Secret Weapon of Recruiting

Luke Melia is a software developer, co-founder/CTO of Yapp who loves building great teams and communities. Luke helped create the first GORUCO and the Ember.js community in NYC.  In this podcast, Luke discusses Yapp’s early adoption of Ember.js, and its impact on revenue, community and recruiting. We dive into building community, unique takeaways about Ruby, and the many benefits of community. This is a great talk for people interested in speaking, teams who need to grow, and leaders who want to infuse a vision into their culture.   Ember History Adopted Ember from Sproutcore Ember consulting funds Yapp Ember.js meeting up NYC has over 1100 people   Ruby is Unique Community No big corp behind community, the driving force was individual Motivation, style, stems from roots Community takes responsibility to fix problems   Lessons from Ruby Community Matz is nice and so we are nice People talking about it made it true Took into Ember — together we help folks climb the learning curve After a while you are saying the same words and instead of vision it becomes true   Impact of Community on Hiring First crack at folks as they come onto the market Apprenticeship programs Find talent, be attractive to talent Talented devs don’t come onto the market… they reach out to a few friends and have a new job   Other Ramblings Lightening talk great introduction to public speaking Differences between Silicon Beach and Silicon Alley Historian Role Community Builder? Ping @lukemelia on twitter Tweet @embernyc to find out where they are going for drinks the evening of a meetup