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Re: Requesting feedback on our Dev Lab!
I would love to have had a dev lab which had clear objectives i.e.: How to set up the SDK? Getting Postman Configured? Hints, tips, dos and don't for building effective custom components with Aurora Hackathon - Build your first Handlebars component Hackathon - Build your first react component React or Handlebars, that is the question Hackathon - Helpful utilities, code snippets Permissions Translation - Classic to Aurora - what's changed? Meet Big Pipe: The Firehose - What, why and how to handle big data Deep Dive - Breaking out of the community box (Integrations with pages and endpoints outside the community). Theming the Theme - Exploring how to setup multiple theme communities Aurora and AI It wasn't that there was anything wrong with the devlab, I just felt it was to close to a roadmap / marketing call and not close enough to an engineering call, which is what I was hoping it would be. Both good pieces of feedback. I appreciate the examples you gave of what you'd like to see. The second bit also speaks toLief's note about more time for actually collaborating, which totally makes sense. Thanks for this - it's good stuff, and I'm happy to pass it on.Re: Requesting feedback on our Dev Lab!
Would have been nice to see the topic options ahead of time; vote, add more, think about them for a few minutes to have my head in the game. Love this idea - this is similar to our past unconferences, right? I can see how this could help us narrow down content, especially when there are a lot of potential areas we could cover. Will definitely pass this on. More "open time" means more "in person" time. Tough to do over zoom. Would prefer a user-group feel of an evening in a nearby-town with a zoom-in option for folks that can't travel but still want to get 30% of the benefit of the in-person conversation. I'm no developer (which is arguably a reason I shouldn't be posting here) but I would suspect that without hands-on or whiteboard-style open conversations (attempted/approximated in the breakouts) that this felt less like a DevLab and more like an Admin RoadShow. Makes sense. Not sure yet how we achieve that in-person feeling without an in-person event (or maybe we do one at some point?), but the feedback is noted! The breakouts - as tough as it was to be a DevLab - were more engaging than the pre-breakout, big-group powerpoint. I wish I'd written things down closer to the end of the session but week-old memory says there was a bit of *marketing* in the front half that most of us don't need. Totally fair - I think for future ones, we do want to have more time for people to brainstorm and collaborate together. This event felt like a kicking-off point for us for newer dev events, so I expect future ones to allow more time for teaming up. Also, take notes on how often Khoros folks say "coming soon" and tone that way down. 😄 Maybe even remove it from your vernacular all together. We are "working on..." or "R&D is still discovering..." or "still developing the..." - all the verbs that come before you know the schedule for release. "Coming Soon" to a Developer and every movie fan is measured in days/weeks or has an actual date. Most of the big things I'm looking forward to as a Program Manager are on the roadmap article for "like July" or later. That isn't soon to me even and it's not a date - that's like 2Q's away. Good for someone thinking of migrating and/or purchasing or looking at big-rocks for their dev-shop in 2025; less relevant for any but the most forward-capable DevShop. Duly noted! Also appreciate that you proposed some alternative language.👍 </rant> I'm still a fan of the product, please do more of these (and similar), the facetime with Khoros and peers has very-long-tail value: I'll be there. Glad to hear it, and thanks for the /rant! This is great feedback.😃Requesting feedback on our Dev Lab!
Hey all, hope you enjoyed the Dev Lab we held last week! I wanted to ask for open feedback - whether positive or negative - about your experience. What did you like? What should we do different next time? Posting here for everyone to respond, but tagging in some folks I know attended:shavetaskthometzryancjmpRyan_GilmoreDRaynorcjdingerNatkinsonAkenefickLiefStanGromerdfeaseyCarolineSMichelle_LynnRobertTetissonallensmith81Malcolm-MsteffiatebayKev_BOBRIEN_PtywOHORBACHhim_varma
