One opportunity led to another
After attending the Manchester Meetup and finding the Community online, I began to get more and more involved, plucking up the courage to contribute and share knowledge with others.
There are three main ways that I spend my time contributing to the Community: speaking, sustainability and packages! After my first in person meetup back in 2023, I had already worked on a talk internally at the company I was working at called “Decarbonising the planet, one Umbraco upgrade at a time”, which was all about the sustainability benefits you would get going from Umbraco v8 to v9 and the underlying .NET change.
I then took this talk to the Manchester and Newcastle meetups, and then to Umbraco Spark, which was well received by the audience. During Spark I met Umbraco’s CMS Product Owner Lasse Fredslund, and we had a great in-depth talk about sustainability and the fact that Umbraco wanted to launch a Community Sustainability Team later that year.
The rest, as they say, is history! I’ve been part of the Community Sustainability Team since it's launch and I've had so many cool opportunities, like visiting Fjernvarme Fyn and Energinet in Denmark, organising a sustainability challenge and sending an Umbraco-branded bike all the way to Edinburgh!
