Kick-butt Developer Community inside Mitrais
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Just found out they have an internal developer community that is very active & agile. They do internal knowledge sharing sessions on regular basis - which to me is VERY COOL. I don't know whether developers in other companies are actively doing it too. Today, Mitrais internal Developer Community (called MACO) consists of 150 .NET Developers, 40 Java Developers and 30 COBOL Developers, all employees of the company. However, not just employees, even the company's alumni are very welcome to join. Look at their website and you can imagine the cool things they do inside the company. BRING BACK THE FUN OF BEING DEVELOPERS!
I strongly urge you to start something similar in your own company if your company hasn't got one already. Not just software companies, any companies that have developers can start such initiative. For example, your company is an automotive company and it happens to have 60 developers, you can start one too. Your companies are tissue factory, butcher, electronics manufacturers, banks, insurance, government department, mining company, etc. Don't wait for other to start, you can be the initiator inside your company.
If your company does have such internal developers community, talk to us, we'll be very happy to come to your very own venue to discuss many things, give technology updates, trial software, beta software, etc.
Btw, would you share about your company internal dev community?