>>from around the globe. It's the cue with digital coverage of out systems. Next step 2020. Brought to you by Out systems. Welcome back. I'm stupid, man. This is the Cube at Out systems. Next step course. When we gather at the events, one of the big things to talk about is the community and out system show is no exception. Lots of developers, lots of community engagement. A Z they're building and sharing what they have. So to dig into that topic, happen it. Welcome to the program. 10 Lopez. She is the senior director of Community and Advocacy without systems. Again. Thank you so much for joining us. >>Hi. Thanks so much for having me. >>Well, Jen, you know they're there. So much discussion in the industry right now is like OK, what does that the current moment in time with the global pandemic mean for events? What does it mean for communities? The term I've heard used so much is, you know, how do we bring ourselves together even while we're apart? But if you could, you know, give us You know what does the community on help systems look like? You know, you've had this event before. If this was 2019 you know, what did the community activity in the community engagement looked like? >>Yeah, we're definitely in a different world right now, right? So in 2019 gathering the community together, you know, whether it was at at Max step or another in person events that we often had. Um you know that that is such a huge part of building community is getting people together and being able to have those conversations. And, um, sometimes it's just ah, whether it's meeting at, you know, you're getting some coffee and you meet someone. All of those in person things, um, are hard to do online. But we're really working hard this year at, you know, finding those ways to connect in a bunch of different ways with the community. Um, we have our regular technical talks and that sort of thing that we're doing. But we also have a chat where you can come in tow and chat with other community members. We're gonna have ah, 24. You know, we have this 24 hour zoom going on. So you could you know, we're fine trying to find his many ways as possible. Teoh sort of at least get those conversations and have the ability for the community to connect with each other. >>I'm wondering if you can, you know, people look at communities and especially in the developer community There's so many different pieces of that. Uh, when I talkto Gonzalo he was talking about how do we enable the next? You know, 10 million developers? When I talk to help communities, it looks like the app Dev is obviously a big piece of ah of what you're addressing. But you characterize if you could And if you have any staff but loved, understand, you know, the community, the growth of community. You know where the engagement activity is. >>Yeah, thanks. So the community growth of the out systems community has been phenomenal. Um, last year we saw are just for this year with on 90% growth since last year. Uh, we have 22,000 developers on a monthly basis who are actively doing things in the community. Um, that's anywhere from between building APS and asking questions in the forum and, um, using downloading forge components which are reusable APS attending user groups. There's all these things right. We have this activity level that we've seen that has just been through the roof. And, um, Cove in for the community has actually been, You know, we've seen a huge birth specifically march in April, we saw a great increase in new members coming on. And then what happened is our other members jumped in answering way more questions than we've ever had in the forums offering to help in different ways so that between the increase in gross, the growth and increasing activity, uh, the community itself has jumped in to really help out other people. >>Well, if you look at the development community and the tools they use and how they engage there, really, the work from home, you know, movement probably hit them a little bit less that than the average knowledge worker because they're used to being online there. Used to engaging in these environments. Often it is a distributed community, so it sounds like it makes sense. What what else? From a covert standpoint, You know, I've talked to some of the out systems customers and the ability it baked into the five former, something that they're take advantage of. Do you have any interesting stories around. You know how the community is rallying, you know, specifically with Kobe going on? >>Yeah. So, actually, that that Brown was a huge thing for us. We had at both internal and external. We were getting a lot of folks coming to us and saying, you know, everybody wanted to help, right? Especially in the beginning off when it kind of hit globally, everybody wanted to help. So what we did is we launched a program that we called the community the coveted 19 community response. Orban, um and we weren't quite sure exactly how people might react. But what ended up happening is we had thousands of people give ideas. And with those ideas, we had teams of people who were working on building these acts and actually launching the abs to help different communities all around the world with various issues. Whether it waas, you know, um, on an uber like up that was created to help people in a certain community, you know, find somebody who could go to the store for them. Um, there were, you know, these different acts were being created by the community. The ideas were coming from the community and people just really rallied around it because everybody wanted to help and they wanted to participate and be a part of something. And they were able to get these APS out in, you know, record time. Um, I would see other folks. Everyone was was trying to rely on technology at the time. And I would see other folks saying, Oh, you know, we had a team of five people spent 22 weeks building out. You know, our first M v p of this happened at out systems we were seeing people in, you know, two people in one week having, like, awfully blown, flushed out, being created. Um, So we were able to you not just help with the technology simply but help really quickly when it was needed right away. >>You know what? One of the themes I've been hearing a lot at the show is How do we close that? That Helen skill gap? Um, I have to imagine with your community engagements, the advocacy. You've got some visibility in tow. You know what things is out system engaged with when it comes toe educating the next generation, helping people take advantage of some of the new technologies adoption of the new AI features. It gives a little viewpoint as those changing dynamics in the community and specifically for developer. >>Yeah, I think it's it's really interesting. So, um, we have a number of programs with our between our education program and, um, low code schools and various programs where we're getting not just new developers coming in and burning out systems right away. But but actually getting developers who were coming from other programming languages who were ready to learn something new, who are like, Hey, I'm hearing a lot about, you know, uh, these these different ways to be innovative and I, you know, build an act quickly and it's still secure and stable and robust. And all of this. And so we have a lot of people on, you know, coming in in different ways. We're also really excited about a new partnership that we've just launched with women who code. We're you know, we're working really hard at going beyond just sort of those regular ways of people coming in. We want to help bring people from, you know normally, who may be underrepresented intact at the moment because we want to help bring that new generation in and that generations coming from all walks of life. And, um, you know, coming up with working on lots of different ways, Teoh, educate and and bring them in and keep them intact. >>Yeah. You know, Jen, such an important topic. I'm so glad that you brought it up, you know, diversity. Um, you know what? One of the things when when I think about we're lowering the bar. Ah, and you know what necessary skills? You have to get started to be a coder so often it's I have to have this degree. I need to understand these languages. So, you know, do do you feel this general movement is making it more accessible? Are we in a You know, what are we doing? What we doom or to be able to reach out, find some new pools of talent that can help us close this gap. And you know, then, as you said, keep them in tech. >>Yeah, and I think that will be key, is keeping them in tech. But, um, there are right now it's a It's a strange thing to say this is an opportunity, right? But with lots of people. Um, and specifically here in the US, where I am, Obviously we have a lot of folks who have lost jobs, right? People are looking for ways to get into something new. What's great about being able to learn? Ah, out systems is that that you're going to have a a different kind of job, right? You're going to have one of those jobs with an enterprise organization, um, or or or, you know, one of our partnerships. And it's going to level up your career and it totally differently. And there are, um, uh, lots of organizations right now who are also looking to find those those ways online there, like we have all these members in our community. But we're trying to get trained and Intertek and in different ways, and they're reaching out to us as well and saying, Hey, we're hearing a lot about you know, all of these innovative things out systems is doing. How do we work together? And so it's been really exciting to see that it's not just us going out and reaching out its people saying, Oh, I see these really cool things that you're doing and you know, we want to help get our members, um, learning and into this as well. >>All right, let's look a little forward. If we could, Jen, you know, tell us. You know what? What do you What do you see in the future? You know what feedback you're getting from community? What things should we be looking at? Going forward, >>Going forward. I think that, um, development is really going to be focused on on being able to be creative and innovative and finding new ways to do things. We don't have to do things the same old way anymore, right? We can, uh, build a robust application, uh, quickly and likely saw with co bid. Um, you know, we had big issues, and people were able Teoh, uh, figure out a way Thio Thio use technology to actually help fix these issues or solve a problem really quickly. And I see that very much that people it lights something in people's minds of Oh, being a developer doesn't have to just mean sitting and coding all day. It means, you know, doing really but robust things that I can do to help people and use technology in a totally different, innovative way >>Wonderful. Don't want to give you the final word when we talk about out systems bringing the community together. What do you want? People toe understand and connect with on this community? >>Thedc, um, unity itself is very generous and giving and one thing, but I have really, really loved about being a part of out systems is the community itself because they are working really hard to help bring new developers in help train them, give them mentor ship. So there's a There's a big feeling of, you know, it's not just every person out for themselves. They really want to help lift each other up. I think it's really important for, you know, feeding that technology, that new generation and that innovation that that is coming from it. All right, >>well, 10 Lopez thank you. So so much for helping us dig inside the community. Definitely looking at the engagement opportunities this week. And ah, thank you for all of the information that you share. >>Thanks, Dio appreciate it. >>Stay tuned for more cover jumps to minimum. And thank you for watching the Cube