Community & Belonging in the Time of Coronavirus
summary
Volunteer engineers from MongoDB, Alphabet, Amazon and Apple build a crowdsourced tracker with Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical Research in about a week using MongoDB Atlas and donated MongoDB Atlas credits; Drupal Association raises $500,000 in 60 days from 2,000 people and 150 businesses after events are cancelled; a single-track Animal Crossing conference draws 8500 unique viewers and streams to Twitch; MOOCs see roughly sevenfold traffic increases as Meetups and MongoDB World shift fully virtual.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 3:05The pandemic's isolation and digital shift
- 9:00Virtual conferences and online scaling
- 13:10Community support and open source contributions
- 17:35Permanent remote work and future outlook
- 20:07Q&A on volunteering and community impact
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