The Transatlantic Journey to Success
summary
Leaves a Monterrey web dev background, moves to Paris, and reports concrete outcomes: attends 11 conferences and speaks once at JSConf Budapest after receiving a diversity scholarship; finds only one local meetup in Monterrey and cites the average Mexican developer salary as 14,000 MXN (~$745) so a 100-dollar ticket is 13% of a Mexican developer's monthly income; points to existing programs like NodeSchool and Node Together as reproducible actions to build meetups and workshops that actually increase participation.
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chapters (28)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:39Context
- 1:07Back in 2014
- 1:29Free periods
- 2:07Meetups
- 2:21JavaScript Meetup
- 2:41CSS Meetup
- 3:26General idea
- 3:56Conferences
- 4:14Salary
- 4:40Conference Tickets
- 5:08Mexico Infrastructure
- 7:06Not School for Web Development
- 7:39Why Conferences
- 7:55Becoming a Speaker
- 8:23First Technical Talk
- 8:35Diversity Scholarships
- 8:51Burton Scholarship
- 9:28Scholarships
- 9:54Networking
- 10:41Encouragement
- 11:09What makes a tech hub
- 11:41What can we do
- 12:05We can help
- 12:36Give back
- 12:54Spread ideas
- 13:27You are blessed
- 14:01Thank you
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