34: Open Source Developer Advocacy with Cami

Cami is a developer advocate for Open Source and Facebook Reality Labs (FRL), our AR/VR organisation. In this episode's interview Cami and our host Pascal discuss how developer advocacy is approached at Facebook, how to build developer empathy, and tackle the eternal question of why it's worth investing in Open Source. If you've ever wanted to dip your toes into VR development, stick around for the end when Cami shares some of her favourite resources.

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Links:

• Hand Tracking Pirates Demo: https://developer.oculus.com/blog/new-oculus-open-source-library-and-pirates-demo-app-qa-with-developer-luca-mefisto-on-hand-tracking-innovation/
• Hand Physics Lab: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/app/3392175350802835/
• Build Your First VR App with Unity: https://developer.oculus.com/documentation/unity/unity-tutorial/
• Unity VR: https://learn.unity.com/course/oculus-vr
• Cami on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cwillycs?s=09
• ValemVR on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ValemVR
• Oculus on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/oculusvr
• Facebook Open Source on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FacebookOpenSource
• Traveling While Black: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/go/1994117610669719/

Timestamps:

• Intro 0:06
• Cami Intro 1:21
• What is developer advocacy? 4:08
• Developer empathy 9:45
• Why invest in Open Source? 14:23
• End of life for OSS projects 19:57
• AR/VR abstractions 22:42
• Becoming an expert learner 32:21
• VR dev learning resources 37:56
• Most underrated FB OSS project 43:06
• Outro 46:25