From Hackathons To Developer Advocacy

​Scaling Impact Through Open Source and Storytelling - Will Russell

​Outline:

• ​How hackathons and ridiculous projects launched a career in open source

• ​Behind the scenes of scaling the MLH Fellowship during the pandemic

• ​Lessons from mentoring thousands of students into open source contributors

• ​Why storytelling and video are secret weapons for great developer advocacy

​​About the Speaker:

​Will Russell is a Developer Advocate at Kestra, known for his videos on workflow orchestration. Previously, Will built open source education programs to help up and coming developers make their first contributions in open source. With a passion for developer education, Will creates technical video content and documentation that makes technologies more approachable for developers.

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