Smart speaker, ancora più smart, con Home Assistant

Non sarebbe bello se il Google Home in salotto ci avvertisse che c’è una nuova live su Twitch e, contemporaneamente, la facesse partire sulla TV? Oppure avere un Nest Mini che ci invita a spegnere subito qualche elettrodomestico, prima che l’ENEL ci stacchi la corrente visto che ne stiamo consumando troppa?
Tutto possibile, grazie ad Home Assistant, qualche file yaml, device IoT piazzati qua e là, e una manciata di logica per connetterli tra loro.
In questa sessione vedremo come configurare un hub domotico domestico, Home Assistant, magari su di un RasPi, connetterlo ad uno smart speaker Google Nest e creare delle routine per svolgere i compiti più disparati.

(DevFest Italia 2020)

My interview for Create Community Podcast

During quarantine period, Marsha Druker, author of Create Community Podcast, reached me to talk about my job in Google, how to keep communities engaged with virtual events, and the impact of the pandemic in my day-to-day work with communities.

Listen to the episode: Apple | Spotify | Google | Stitcher 
(My interview starts at 15:43)

“When it comes to community and virtual events, right now is a time for incredible experimentation. It’s like a huge social lab.”

Alfredo Morresi

Best practices to manager remote-forced teams

The pandemic imposed to work from home on the majority of us, forcing entire teams to a remote-only setup. A new scenario new for many of us. During this talk, I shared my 8+ years of experience in working (and leading) a remove-first team, with focus on team culture, communication, new members onboarding, etc.

Slides

(ItalianCoders, April 23 2020)

Team management practical wisdom, Codemotion Rome

Being a team manager is a big responsibility, regardless of team size. What are the best practices to make the most out of this role? Where and how management and leadership converge? How to manage difficult moments and decisions? A brief history about what I have learned, errors included, with an eye to technical teams.

Slides

(Codemotion Rome, 22 March 2019)

Team management practical wisdom, Codemotion Milan

Being a team manager is a big responsibility, regardless of team size. What are the best practices to make the most out of this role? Where and how management and leadership converge? How to manage difficult moments and decisions? A brief history about what I have learned, errors included, with an eye to technical teams.

Slides

(Codemotion Milan, 29 November 2018)

Strategies to increase community members involvement, ICM Summit

A recurring problem of every community manager is to keep community members involved with the community. During this talk I spoke about the Community Commitment Curve, a tool to identify a path of optimal engagement, composed by small progressive requests, helping members to be more and more active within the community. They were also concrete examples of the Curve, for online and offline communities.

(Talk in Italian)

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(Italian Community Managers Summit Rome, 10 November 2018)