RWDevCon Inspiration Talk – NSBrief by Saul Mora

Brief Plans

After all of this, what’s next?

It’s been a while, as mentioned in my introduction, that I’ve been working at Coursera now.

I’m a full time employee, so it’s been a little bit more difficult to keep up the weekly cadence of producing a podcast episode every week. I’ve been trying to reflect on what’s good for the community and when I get reviews like this,

…it makes me think twice about canceling the show. It’s not really good for the community and it’s not good for me.

Again I was turning to the community and trying to think, “What can I do to keep this going without putting too much of a burden on myself?”

The one thing that I thought was, “I don’t have to do this all alone. This is not something I have to do by myself.” With that I’m announcing that I’m stepping down as primary host of NSBrief. We’re actually going to have a new host.

Janie Clayton is going to be the new host of NSBrief!

Now that doesn’t mean that things are going to change all that much. She’s still going to do interviews, she’s still going to meet people, she’s still going to do a bang up job.

For one she’s a lot more technically qualified than I am. She is a journalism major. She went to school to do the things that I already messed up on. She knows how to run the boards, she knows how to interview people. She has that experience.

She’s also a developer, she a really hard core developer. She’s also a little fresh around the ears, so she’s got a lot of questions that she wants to ask. She reminds me of myself way back when I first started NSBrief.

The elephant’s in the room is that she’s a woman and that’s great. I love that. Janie is certainly a talented developer and a talented individual such that she could do this all by herself. I felt that giving her this opportunity to take over for me and take over as host of NSBrief will help her reach her goals a lot faster.

I’m really looking forward to working with Janie and having her be a key contributor to the community.

With that I think my time today is about up so I will say I hope to maybe interview some of you for the podcast, and thanks for listening.