The Power
of Focus
How code, community and showing up at events turn into a career.
@omatheusmesmo
Matheus Oliveira
- Java & Quarkus at Act | BMW
- Oracle ACE, contributor in the Quarkus / Quarkiverse ecosystem
- I write at blog.omatheusmesmo.dev about the "Quarkus Way"
- São Paulo, Brazil
@lgsreal
Luiz Real
- Forward Deployed Engineer at Arkana
- Oracle ACE and SouJava leader
- International speaker, focused on Java developer careers
- São Paulo, Brazil
Two paths that look nothing alike.
Different projects, different communities. Same destination.
Focus.
It is not the volume of what you do. It is repetition in one place, in the code and in the community, until people can attach your name to something.
Code is half. Community is the other.
In the code
- Issues and triage
- Review and documentation
- Pull requests
In the community
- The same meetup, every month
- CFPs, talks, events
- Mentoring and organizing
People who only write code get discovered by accident. People who show up get remembered.
A path, not a pep talk.
Where to contribute
One project, six months. Worth more than ten scattered PRs.
Where to show up
One community, every month. At events your face becomes a name.
How it becomes a career
A public trail in code and on stage. People who cannot describe you cannot refer you.
Questions we want to answer.
- Why do some people contribute for years and stay invisible?
- What opened more doors: the code or the community?
- How do you submit a first CFP having never spoken before?
- Can you contribute without fluent English?
- How many hours a week actually change anything?
Opening a PR live.
Right now, in this room, from zero to pull request.