... is NOT "don't talk about the Microsoft MVP Summit". Quite the opposite, in fact, as you're actively encouraged to post on social media that you're there (#MVPSummit). You just can't share any of the information from the sessions as all the

Celebrating OSS contributions: 100 issues of Skrift

Nov 7th, 2023 1h 3m

There are many ways to contribute to an open-source software community, such as attending a meetup, giving a talk at a conference or writing a blog post. In this episode we talk to Erica, Janae and Kyle: the team behind Skrift, the online month

Live from Codegarden! with Special Guests!

Jun 21st, 2023 36m 59s

Last week we recorded live at the Umbraco Codegarden conference in Denmark! Join us as we discuss what we love about the conference and meet our wonderful guests:Jan Skovgaard - an Umbraco community member with 14 years(!) of contributions: for

In-person events: the ultimate OSS contribution?

May 19th, 2023 50m 20s

Conferences, meetups, coding retreats … we discuss all sorts of in-person events and why they’re so important for a healthy community. Organising them is a lot of work, but perhaps this type of open source contribution is the most valuable... W

Open Source for Education with Felienne Hermans

Mar 28th, 2023 42m 41s

In this episode Laura has a chat with Felienne Hermans, the creator and maintainer of Hedy, a text based programming language with a community of educators and contrbutors. https://hedycode.com/https://www.manning.com/books/the-programmers-brai

Spark your enthusiasm! Speaking and attending an in-person Umbraco innovation conference

Mar 17th, 2023 32m 18s

In this episode we chat about the recent Umbraco Spark Innovation Conference that we all attended in person in Bristol. Plot-spoil: it was awesome! Carole, Laura and Lotte were on the speakers list so we discuss the talks they gave, everyone's

S4 Ep1: Authentic Boundaries

Jan 31st, 2023 57m 3s

We take a look back at the best of 2022 (spoiler alert, July was THE month for us) and look forward to 2023. We discuss how we plan to spend our energy and how to do so without draining our reserves. Which conferences will we get to this year a

S3 Ep4: Culture - more than just a hoodie

Jul 27th, 2022 55m 46s

Having a good workplace culture leads to happy, productive developers. But what makes it 'good'? It’s not the same for everyone. We talk about workplace culture and the different environments we’ve witnessed from Silicon Valley to Denmark via t

S3 Ep3: The Codegarden Effect

Jul 6th, 2022 1h 7m

We are back and chatting about our (hybrid) attendance at Umbraco Codegarden conference. Join us as we interview some remote conference attendees on how the event was for them.Let us know what you think #theCodegardenEffect is!If you have any f

S3 Ep2: Breaking barriers with Maria Naggaga

Dec 17th, 2021 57m 27s

We’re very excited to be joined by Maria Naggaga from Microsoft for this episode. Maria has been breaking down barriers both personally, being a woman of colour in tech, and professionally with projects focused on making it easier for people to

S3 Ep1: Charmingly Rusty

Dec 8th, 2021 37m 37s

We are back!... and little rusty at this podcasting thing!In this episode we catch up with what we have been up to in open source since last time, discuss Umbraco 9 and .Net 6 releases, real life conference attendance, aswell as the now traditi

S2 Ep15: The domain name graveyard of hopes and dreams

Jul 7th, 2021 43m 51s

This week we chat about finishing things - and in some cases struggling to finish them! Tune in to hear us chat about shipping minimum viable products, using to-do lists to get that "finished a task" feeling and navigating side projects when th

S2 Ep14: Kind but bad-ass

Jun 23rd, 2021 51m 5s

This week we get together for a post-codegarden natter. How did we experience the conference from afar and from behind the scenes? Listen to find out. Naturally, we talk veg, because it's us, a bit of football and we also talk about representat

S2 Ep13: Is it Codegarden yet?

Jun 4th, 2021 31m 43s

This week we chat about the upcoming annual Umbraco festival-unconference-global-knowledge-share-party, more commonly known at Umbraco Codegarden! We talk about some of the pros and cons of virtual events and how they play out and have a good o

S2 Ep12: Stop, Collaborate and Listen!

May 19th, 2021 44m 29s

Over 30 years ago Vanilla Ice told us to "Stop, Collaborate and Listen". Considering Ice Ice Baby hit the charts the year before Linus Torvalds released the Linux kernel, Robert Van Winkle (aka Mr Ice) won't have been talking about open source

S2 Episode 11: It's just sparkling consequences

May 5th, 2021 59m 55s

This week we talk about growing. In public! Hw do we grow when people are watching. Is it worth the risk? We also take a look at the recent Basecamp debacle and the missed opportunity for public growth there. Or was it...? You'll also be please

S2 Episode 10: Can pigeons procrastinate?

Apr 22nd, 2021 46m 29s

Join us this week for a chat around procrastination. Why do we do it? Is it laziness or weakness? (Spoiler: no!) How can we get around it, and what does it mean in the world of technology and open source? Tune in to find out, as well as to pote

S2 Ep 9: Coding in someone else's kitchen

Apr 7th, 2021 42m 33s

How do we learn new frameworks? What are the big shifts in technology we've experienced so far? Listen to find out the answers and how we are getting up to speed with latest in Umbraco .Net Core migration. If you have any feedback, comments o

S2 Ep8: Why did the Java developer wear glasses?

Mar 25th, 2021 49m 5s

We're back from a break, and talking about humour. Should we be funny in work situations? How do you avoid getting it wrong? What does having a sense of humour even mean? We all need more levity in our lives. Using humour can be incredibly p

S2 Ep7: New

Jan 20th, 2021 1h 2m

Happy New Year, and welcome to our “New” episode! Join us to hear what things lie ahead in 2021, including a very exciting Umbraco-related update from Emma... We muse on what community might look like this year, and how meetups could adapt to a

S2 Ep6: Include

Dec 22nd, 2020 1h 38m

In our final episode of our first year as a podcast, we have 2 special guests. We are joined by Ilham Boulghallat from Umbraco HQ and Henk Boelman from Microsoft to discuss leading open source communities. If you have any feedback, comments

S2 Ep5: Democracy

Nov 25th, 2020 1h 5m

Recorded soon after the Biden Trump election, we discuss how democratic open source is, and how much it should be. We also talk about the influence of technology and social media on our news consumption and how that influences the opinions we f

S2 Ep4: Pivot

Nov 7th, 2020 50m 23s

PIVOT!This episode we are discussing pivoting: code approaches, career changes, tech stacks.* CanConUmbrackathon guestbook mushroom field: https://candidcontributions.com/umbrackathon/status/ * Umbraco Community teams: https://umbraco.com/blog/

S2 Ep3: Standards

Oct 13th, 2020 1h 5m

In this episode we discuss standards: coding standards, team/community standards, personal standards.Join us as we talk all this and more, including plans for our upcoming hackathon, 🎵 The CanCon Umbrackathon 🎵, on Friday 16th and Saturday 17

S2 Ep2: Contribution

Sep 30th, 2020 1h

There are many ways to contribute to open source, do non code contributions get enough credit? What are people's motivations for participating in Hacktoberfest? Does the initiative actually have a negative impact? What can you get back from con