"The Ape Group Interview" | Link the developer the story of the female Man Shu and DevLink

When it comes to procedural apes, maybe we're all in the picture. Keywords: black backpack, striped polo shirt, messy hair, house, internet cafes, games ... So, when it comes to women programmers, what do you think? Today, the Ape group interview guests, DevLink's COO Shu MS, is the programmer trained, because of long time and "yards nong" mixed together, become the eyes of the female men. The second PHP Global Developers Conference, held in Beijing in May this year, from the contact venue to the confirmation of the ticket, from the coordination of lecturers to the communication agenda, from the implementation of exhibitors to print the exhibition board, is the female man with a designer in one hand, so that everyone is impressed.

The following is an interview with the Ape group reporters, original works, if necessary reprint please indicate the source.

"Female man" Shu Qi, in fact, is a handsome beauty, before the creation of DevLink, wrote code, in Motorola did 5 years of engineers, and later devoted to the internet industry, in Tianjin and Zhu Feng together to do intelligent routers, as product manager. As a result of this experience, Shu Qi also harvested their love, and Zhu Feng Happy knot, in the later creation of DevLink, Zhu Feng also played an important role. After an entrepreneurial failure, Shu to the Royal Park, took the team, has done vertical community, social products, recruitment products, Internet basic services products, responsible for the project from 0 to 1.

　　

"Female Man" Shu Qi

DevLink's idea originated from the Tianjin Google developer community (Tianjin GDG). The community is supported by Google, Yu Ying, Zhu Feng, and a few friends founded together, the original intention is to bring together a large number of Tianjin developers, for everyone to create a common exchange and learning of the soil. After the founding of the community, each month will organize a technical exchange activities, small to more than 10 people, as large as hundreds of people, sometimes invited to the famous lecturer, sometimes Yu Ying personally fencing, from here, Shu Qi gradually has some activities operating experience.

　　Look at the first prototype of PHP language DevLink

The programmer was born of Shu, because of the long-term and "yards nong" mixed together, were called female men. Because of this kind of identity, "yards farmers" are very fond of chatting with her, for a long time, she also gradually used to use the way of thinking of developers to communicate and think. In contact with the "Code farmers", Shu found that the developer of this group, due to educational background, personal experience differences, there are many problems and "pain point", such as: lack of practical experience, problems do not know how to solve the problem, the ability to not improve, can not find the right job, career bottlenecks, do not know how to break through , the existing seller's market environment, the status of developers in many people's eyes still have misunderstandings; most developers are introverted and not talkative, and not very good at expressing their inner thoughts, and so on, this is the current developers, especially the front-line developers are facing problems, or even one of the bottlenecks of upward promotion.

How to enable effective communication, sharing and communication between developers, so that we can have a way to solve technical problems and career thresholds through mutual assistance and social interaction?

While Shu was pondering the problem, another man appeared. Gao Chunhui, one of the founders of DevLink, often participates in various activities as lecturers. He found that although there are many technical exchanges in the market, but specific to the development of a certain language, and can stand in front of the front-line developers to solve the actual problem of less activity, or to do a specific development language activities? This idea immediately get Shu Qi response, so she took this task, Start preparations for the work. After several discussions and surveys, the team decided that each event would only start with a technical language or a specific field, and that the key to the operation was to select the direction and find the right person. Which technical language should we start with?

In 2015, when PHP7 was about to be released, PHP7 brought a revolutionary performance boost, and PHP was the language with the highest share of internet companies. There is no doubt that PHP7 became the target of Shu Qi, so the team's first event in 2015 years was born. As the core developer and preacher of PHP7, Brother Bird is a natural speaker of the Conference and has also helped to recommend a number of top-notch lecturers.

　　DevLink, for links, to help developers

The 2015 PHP conference was quite smooth, because the content of the share was completely based on actual combat and practice, so it has been recognized by developers. After the success of this meeting, Shu began to understand the technical atmosphere of the developers of the yearning, but also that they are eager to share the dry form of the conference to break through the self-bottleneck, to achieve ascension. So why not just promote this form, each time you choose one of the technical directions or language, to ask Daniel to talk about practice and experience, is it possible to help more developers to grow faster?

With this idea, Shu Qi and team began to practice, because very optimistic about this direction, Mr. Zhu Feng as a part-time consultant to join the DevLink, the initial team basically formed. DevLink was formally established in March 2016. DevLink's positioning is not an exhibition, not a media, but a community, a platform that can bring all the developers together, so in the name of the team a lot of effort, hope, as its name, can be connected to each developer, whether it is the great god of cattle, or ordinary shrimp, can be through DevLink equal exchange, sharing technical experience, to achieve sustained growth.

　　The little girl's big ability PHP7 the conference to win the praises

After the founding of DevLink, Shu Qi did the first thing is to prepare for the second PHP7 assembly. With limited funding, the General Assembly faced a serious shortage of manpower, when the female man played a superhuman role: a person took care of all the propaganda, ticketing, cooperation, preparation, coordination affairs.

Looking at this workload, I can imagine the hard work. Shu also said that in the process of preparing the Assembly did encounter a lot of problems, the first place before her biggest problem is sales. Because of the unprecedented size of the meeting, but the team has limited sales channels, the General Assembly of the information is not delivered to many developers in a timely manner, and the preparatory stage due to the controversy of a technical conference in Shanghai, some people know the news also began to question whether participating in various technical conferences is really useful, making the ticket pressure is very large.

In the face of partners and exhibitors, DevLink almost no large business background, the brand has just been established is not recognized, many enterprises doubt the influence and effect of the General Assembly. The leakage of the night rain, in the PHP7 conference, many well-known enterprises are also hosting technical meetings, many exhibitors energy and budget is limited, so the interest in cooperation with DevLink is not very large, making the market progress is relatively slow.

But the name of the female man is not vanity, Shu Qi and the team recruited a group of volunteers to solve the problem of manpower, while Gao Chunhui also invited his project colleagues to come to help. Due to the precipitation of the first PHP7 Congress, DevLink has a high-quality producer of bird brother as the rear foundation, a group of instructors to contribute to the excellent content, and through some methods of innovation, so that the difficulties were one by one solved, the General Assembly has been successful, and has been unanimously praised by developers.

Shu said that the founding of the Conference made her very successful: "Although there are still many shortcomings, but we do not have much to complain about, but to encourage us to do better." "Even a lot of participants in order to express their thanks to the organizing committee, a private message to her to send red envelopes, more people in the knowledge of the post, write down the words of thanks, these give Shu Qi very big touch, but also more determined that the team will devlink continue to do and strive to do a good job."

　　

All staff and lecturers of PHP Assembly group photo

　　"The good stuff should be priced."

DevLink recognized the value of content, but also that "technology Daniel" should not be free to share, believe that good content is needed to be priced. Therefore, at the second PHP Global Developers Conference, DevLink original "to the instructor to reward" function has been the lecturer, the audience unanimously praised, the organizing committee took out 10% of the ticket to fill the audience's account, let the audience to the instructor to reward. Finally, in addition to the 10% of the fare, the average audience paid a reward of more than 30 yuan in cash, which is not expected by the entire organizing committee, but also through this matter, we began to understand that the audience is actually willing to pay for good sharing content. Then in the future, DevLink will open up this feature, so that more technical meetings can easily use this feature, hope that through open source and the actual action of the team, slowly let the instructor free sharing, free speech into the past, instead of evaluated, by quality pricing.

Talking about the future development of DevLink, Shu told the author, DevLink is not dedicated to the General Assembly, but to do a front-line developers to share, exchange, mutual help platform. In the future, DevLink also organizes many segments of the development, technical areas of sharing activities, synchronous expansion of online activities. But regardless of the form, the language of the sharing, DevLink will follow the following principles to do things:

• Believe that content is valuable, all sharing must pay to see;
• Let the technology share return to the original meaning, filtered quality content, will get various forms of affirmation, is the content creator positive feedback.

"We recognize the value of the content, but not the mercenary, we promote the connection between developers, does not mean that the business can be all-pervasive, which is our original intention and goal." "Interview at the end, Shu qi words let the author impressive, in today's business atmosphere is strong nowadays, how to be the first beautiful feelings and survival combination, is a lot of enterprises facing the problem, DevLink model, it is worth everyone to learn from and think."

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"The Ape Group Interview" | Link the developer the story of the female Man Shu and DevLink