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Tag: sprints

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 Samantha Shain Salesforce, Uncategorized

asking pragmatic questions about snowfakery

Grappling with my learning journey on Snowfakery. Striving to make the installation process easier is a noble effort, but not to the exclusion of learning fundamental concepts.

October 21, 2021 Samantha Shain Salesforce, Uncategorized

sprint reflections vol ix: laughter

"At the end of the day, PRs are meaningless to me if we haven't been laughing."

March 22, 2021 Samantha Shain Uncategorized

reflection on four years of open source community with salesforce.org

Sprint leaders took me under their wings, listened to my ideas, designed compelling tech solutions, and built a community of nonprofit tech contributors that has been personally and professionally transformative. In this post, 8 lessons that I've learned from 4 years of sprinting!

February 15, 2021February 15, 2021 Samantha Shain Uncategorized

enablement

Reflection on my 8th Salesforce.org Open Source Community Sprint! Update on the Data Generation Toolkit community project! What access, support, and enablement mean to me! Plus, some puns.

January 15, 2021August 29, 2021 Samantha Shain Salesforce, Uncategorized

snowfakery till you makery

Follow along with my first forays into Snowfakery! Warning: Code! Command Line! Im-pasta Syndrome!

September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 Samantha Shain Salesforce, Uncategorized

clouds

This Joni Mitchell + Brandi Carlisle + Zadie Smith + plastic suitcases full of beads + cloud-anatomy + data lovin' babe is living her best life, moving data between sandboxes and more! Cheers to THAT!

September 4, 2020 Samantha Shain Uncategorized

i’m learning CiviCRM!

What's out there in the land beyond Salesforce? Turns out, quite a lot! Keep reading for musings on open source technology and a PG-13 meme.

December 27, 2018December 27, 2018 Samantha Shain Salesforce, Uncategorized

oops baby

You’ve heard of oops babies, right? This post is about being an oops database manager – in the field, we call them, “accidental admins.” It’s a story about how I made this my career (as early in my career as I am, I really love what I do!) and the values that guide my work.

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