Agenda for Backstage Community Session (April 20 & 27, 2022)

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Details

• ⌛ Date and Time

Day 1 (Adopters)	Day 2 (Contributors)
Wed, April 20th, 16:00 CET (UTC+1) Use this to convert to your timezone	Wed, April 27th, 16:00 CET (UTC+1) Use this to convert to your timezone
Share your adoption challenges and successes, demo features and plugins, and hear about major product updates.	Go deeper under the hood — discuss features, implementation questions, and other technical issues with your fellow contributors and the Backstage maintainers.

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How to join the Adopters Community Session

Join us at backstage.io/live

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How to join the Contributors Community Session

Join Zoom Meeting
https://spotify.zoom.us/j/99236687098

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In case you face issues joining - feel free to use the #meetup channel on Discord.

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[taras]

[Adopters] Use Cases for Backstage - How to ask developers about problems they want solved with Backstage?

We'd like to do a quick talk about what we learned from conducting user interviews with developers about problems that can be solved with Backstage. Hopefully this information will be useful to help others figure out where to start improving developer experience at their company.

[taras]

[Contributors] Backstage GraphQL Plugin Demo

Frontside is working on a new GraphQL plugin for Backstage. It includes many of the things we learned from deploying GraphQL for our clients. We'd like to demo how it works, the schema it implements, and the DX that we'd like to propose.

[theophile-scrive]

[Adopters] In echo to what Taras said, how could "common usecases" benefit from more guidance (A guide for internal catalogue, a guide for an external catalogue, etc).

[asaini11]

[Adopters] Would like to hear from others on how they keep backstage up to date and manage upgrades.

[karlhaworth]

[Contributors] Backstage Argo CD Plugin Demo

American Airlines contributed additional enhancements for the Argo CD plugin for Backstage by Roadie. It now allows the scaffolder to create new Argo Projects and Application. We'd like to demo how it works and the benefits involved with this plugin.

[timbonicus]

[Contributors] We can discuss the Notification API RFC which aims to expand Backstage's capabilities around alerts and user notifications.

[OrkoHunter]

Hey @karlhaworth ! Just checking if you're around for the demo. We're on the Zoom call https://spotify.zoom.us/j/99236687098

[karlhaworth]

I thought it started now?

[karlhaworth]

I’ll join shortly. With a company talking backstage and our journey

[OrkoHunter]

Oh hey Karl! So sorry for the confusion on time. You can add the public Calendar to have the events show up in your calendar.

But we'd still love to catch that demo in the next community session. 🙏

[karlhaworth]

Apologies. I wish I would've been there! I will definitely be happy to demo next week if there is still interest.

[OrkoHunter]

Apologies from our side and yes! Community sessions happen every month on the third and fourth Wednesday, so see you in the next one. I'll shortly create a new issue in this repository with details in the agenda!

[karlhaworth]

tag me on the new issue please if you want me to post there :)