19 MAR 2024 · ... 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 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/MVPSummit). You just can't share any of the information from the sessions as all the content is under NDA.      Emma and Lotte (aka 50% of Candid Contributions) were at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond for the summit last week. They spent time with a lot of interesting, clever and inspiring people, and were lucky enough to convince five of them to appear in this special not-so-short 'minisode'. Listen to find out what Emma, Lotte and these fabulous five got from being at the event:   - https://twitter.com/Bijington - Microsoft MVP, author of ‘https://amzn.eu/d/a6w7uLq’ - https://twitter.com/podcasterJay - Microsoft MVP, host of https://dotnetcore.show/ podcast - https://twitter.com/hannes_lowette - Microsoft MVP, Head of Learning & Development at https://www.axxes.com/ - https://twitter.com/idangazit - Senior Director of Research at https://githubnext.com/ - https://twitter.com/LuceCarter1 - Microsoft MVP, Developer Advocate at https://www.mongodb.com/ Show links   - https://summit.microsoft.com/en-us/ - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emma-burstow-b11b1081_squadgoals-mvpbuzz-activity-7173795637300203520-wc6n

7 NOV 2023 · 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 monthly magazine for the Umbraco community. Eight years ago they decided to start this initiative and 100 issues later they're still going strong! Listen to discover how it came about, why they still do it, and perhaps get inspired to contribute an article yourself... We also discuss some exciting news from Lotte, the challenges of making consistent contributions to open source, delivering technical talks and some delightful tangents into pop culture! Links: - Skrift's 100th issue: https://skrift.io/100 - The Umbraco UK Festival: https://umbracofestival.co.uk/ If you have any feedback, comments or questions you can toot us https://umbracocommunity.social/@candidcontribs, tweet us https://twitter.com/candidcontribs, email https://candidcontributions.com or join https://discord.gg/umbraco!

21 JUN 2023 · 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: forum posts, packages, core pull requests, accessibility team member and 24 days in Umbraco organiser. Jonah Andersson - a full-stack Senior Software Engineer, Azure Developer, DevOps Engineer, Microsoft MVP for Azure, and Microsoft Certified Trainer in Sweden. And a couple more: you'll just have to tune in to find out who! A big thank you to everyone in the audience for making this so much fun. It's the first time we've recorded live, and we hope it won't be the last! Links: - Codegarden: https://codegarden.umbraco.com - Jan Skovgaard: https://twitter.com/TheRealBatJan - 24 days in Umbraco: https://24days.in/umbraco-cms - Jonah Andersson: https://jonahandersson.tech/ If you have any feedback, comments or questions you can tweet us https://twitter.com/candidcontribs, email https://candidcontributions.com or join https://discord.gg/umbraco!

19 MAY 2023 · 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... We're delighted to have been joined by Cat Todd from Gibe Digital, and we talk about her recent experience of putting on the excellent Umbraco Spark conference. We also discuss the 3 day Umbraco developer ‘unconference’ CODECABIN and why you should get your application in before the deadline of July 7th. Join us to hear all this plus chat about tulip colours, fist-pumps and - hurray - another Laura analogy! Links: - Umbraco Spark: https://umbracospark.com/ - CODECABIN: https://codecab.in/ - Umbraco meet-ups: https://www.meetup.com/pro/umbraco/ - Meetup organiser resources: https://community.umbraco.com/events/umbraco-meetups/resources-for-meetup-organisers/ This episode was recorded before Umbraco announced the delay of The New Backoffice to v14. Read more about that decision: https://umbraco.com/blog/umbraco-product-update-april-2023/#backoffice If you have any feedback, comments or questions you can tweet us https://twitter.com/candidcontribs, email https://candidcontributions.com or join https://discord.gg/umbraco!

28 MAR 2023 · 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-brain If you have any feedback, comments or questions you can tweet us https://twitter.com/candidcontribs, email https://candidcontributions.com or join https://discord.gg/umbraco!

17 MAR 2023 · 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 highlights from the day, and just how good it is to be with other Umbracians again. Roll on Codegarden! - https://umbracospark.com/(includes links to talk slides, nothing was recorded) - https://github.com/LottePitcher/opinionated-package-starter - https://www.meetup.com/umbraco-virtual/events/292128666/ (virtual, March 24th) - https://codegarden.umbraco.com/codegarden-program/ (Odense, DK, June 13-16) If you have any feedback, comments or questions you can tweet us https://twitter.com/candidcontribs, email https://candidcontributions.com or join https://discord.gg/umbraco!

31 JAN 2023 · 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 and what exactly is an 'authentic boundary?' We are also joined by Allen Smith, the newest addition to the Developer Relations team at Umbraco. We talk about his experiences at GitHub, how he defines developer relations, what he's looking forward to in the year ahead, and what not to name your record label... - Find Allen on the Umbraco discord server: https://discord.gg/umbraco - Allen Smith's Linked In profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loranallensmith - Allen Smith's Twitter: https://twitter.com/loranallensmith - DeveloperWeek, San Francisco : https://www.developerweek.com/ - Umbraco Spark, Bristol: https://umbracospark.com/ - Lotte's cryptic crossword article: https://24days.in/umbraco-cms/2022/christmas-crossword/ If you have any feedback, comments or questions you can tweet us https://twitter.com/candidcontribs, email https://candidcontributions.com or join https://discord.gg/umbraco!

27 JUL 2022 · 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 the UK... We also chat vegetables (of course), paddle boarding and the tennis/squash hybrid called padel! We’d love to hear from you if you have any thoughts on this episode, or any comments in general! You can tweet us @candidcontribs, email hello@candidcontributions.com or join the Umbraco Discord and find us there.

6 JUL 2022 · 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 feedback, comments or questions you can tweet us @candidcontribs, email hello@candidcontributions.com or join the Umbraco Discord!

17 DEC 2021 · 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 learn and use .NET. We discuss her achievements at Microsoft, what it’s like working in open source on such a large scale, and what effect we - the open source community - have on Microsoft. * Coding .NET in the browser with Try.NET - https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/try-dotnet * Minimal APIs available in .NET 6 - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/minimal-apis * Minimal APIs work in progress docs - https://minimal-apis.github.io * Maria on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ladynaggaga If you have any feedback, comments or questions you can tweet us @candidcontribs, email hello@candidcontributions.com or join the Umbraco Community Slack channel #candid-contributions.