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 if this

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you 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