Cultivating Impactful Student Developer Ecosystems: Strategies and Insights

Picture this: a bustling campus, alive with the hum of creativity and the clatter of keyboards. Drawing from personal experiences and insights, through this talk, we will explore the art of cultivating impactful student developer communities in campuses such as those visualized to learn skills, share experiences and build projects together. We shall explore how student developer programs such as Google Developer Students Club and GitHub Campus Experts can be effective catalysts in the process but definitely not prerequisites. We’ll further delve into the nuances of making sure that these student developer communities are inclusive, psychologically safe and how by leveraging these, students can lead in-person and online conferences, meetups, hackathons and maintain open source projects.

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Harshita Jain

Harshita is a final year engineering student currently interning as a Software Developer at MPL (India's leading gaming and esports platform). She can be thought of as a developer walking in the shoes of a designer and wearing the hat of a developer relations enthusiast. When she is not fidgeting with prefabs with Unity to make her game prototypes functional or zooming in and out on Figma to make a breadcrumb look pixel perfect or if she is not running around her college campus to get permission letters signed for her community hackathon Electrothon, she can be found speaking for her love of technical communities at conferences and events. She loves to find a common ground between tech, design and community.