Community Session: Vercel for SMEs and Open source

hi everyone nice to see so many of you here already um hi and welcome i'm Pauline i'm one of your moderators for today's uh Versel community live session uh and joining me today is Jacob hi Jacob how are you hey everyone i'm doing

great excited to be here today yes um so you've probably seen us already in the community space answering your questions and so I love doing these live sessions because it's always such a great opportunity to connect with all of you um live in a more dynamic way um so if you are here and you wanna and you feel comfortable drop in the chat uh and let us know where you're tuning in from um

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are tuning in and um interacting with us in the chat um make sure that you follow our code of conduct um if you want to learn more about that it's on our sidebar in the code of conduct link um and oh wow it's great that to see that someone is actually tuning in from Rome how exciting yeah we're really excited to be having this conversation here with um someone who's been doing some incredibly

impactful work across uh education open source and AI so I would like to welcome Eric Burrell he's a founder of LBK is a professional trainer and a contributor to a bunch of community projects including demographics which is behind the state of JS and similar surveys hi Jacob hi Paulin thanks a lot for for inviting me this evening for this session very glad to be with you yeah it's really really great to have us here great to have you here um before we dive

in could you tell us just a little bit about yourself and what you've been working on lately yeah so my name is Eric so as you have explained I'm I'm doing a lot of stuff actually but I'm mostly basically the owner of a small company which is something in itself um I'm giving professional training in the field of full stack web development and this new new emerging job which is uh being an

LLM developers we're going to talk about that and in the open source community in the community I'm mostly the maintainer of the survey application of the state of JavaScript CSS HTML GraphQL React AI devs yeah everything we don't run the other state of stuff you know it's not a brand or whatever just just that but it's already a lot of work with Sasha Gra of course which is also a huge open

source contributor focused on the NexJS part of of that and the part also with the hosting cool cool so I mean you've been doing a lot of work uh teaching Nex.js and your AI tools to small businesses uh what what kind of businesses what kind of learners do you usually teach uh who are you usually working with so in the in the field of professional trainings it's mostly local French uh you know it's a very structured and