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
