Jessica Lord

Jessica Lord tells the story of how Electron was spun out of the Atom editor project, and how she worked through skepticism about the role of Electron in the developer ecosystem and eventually built up a team and engineered a community around it.

2019

JSConf Hawaiʻi

Building Up the Electron Project: Team and Community Engineering

Development isn't just for professionals, it's for learners, tinkerers, and activists, too. Discover ways to lower the barrier to entry and overhead of maintenance on projects of all shapes and sizes. 

Development isn't just for professionals, it's for learners, tinkerers, and activists, too. Using tools that are more approachable not only empowers a broader group of people, it also improves the potential for working teams.

In this talk, we'll cover ways to lower the barrier to entry and overhead of maintenance on projects of all shapes and sizes. We'll talk tools, some of which you might take for granted—like spreadsheets, and ideas, sharing examples in action, that you can use in your projects at work and on weekends.