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Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 214
In this installment of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, host – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen and Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm are joined by India-based Microsoft 365 Consultant and MVP - Smita Nachan | @SmitaNachan
Topics discussed in this session
- Personal committment organizing the Pune Tech Community.
- Practical tips for staying up to date on technology.
- Focus on integration of Microsoft 365 with other non-Microsoft technologies.
- On becoming a Microsoft MVP.
- Drivers and realized benefits behind the decision to open-source your code.
- Overcoming the fear of “Is my solution good enough?”
- How Community has positively helped Smita’s career.
- How does one position themselves to accomplish great things in their career?
- Thoughts on how Copilot can realistically help developers.
- Smita’s life outside of technology.
- How active is the community in India and interaction with communities outside India?
- Are companies embracing the trend to share more today than in the past?
- Vesa’s Superpower.
Referenced during conversation
- Books by Smita Sadanand Nachan
- Pune Tech Community - & Pune Tech Community Meetup
- Event - HackTogether: The Microsoft Teams Global Hack (June 1 – 15, 2023) | aka.ms/hack-together-teams
There were 0 articles or videos covered within this episode created by Microsoft and community members. Since this episode was recorded only 2 days after Episode 213, the show hosts decided to deliver a larger collection of articles in upcoming Episode 215.
This week
- Smita – the Pune Community hosted a Build party the day after recording this episode.
- Waldek – focused on HackTogether: The Microsoft Teams Global Hack - June 1 – 15th, still time to submit a valid Teams app by midnight PT on June 15th. Updates to Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy and CLI for Microsoft 365.
- Vesa – vacation!
Agenda items
00:00 – Intro
01:31 – Interview
40:22 – Closing
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This session was recorded on Thursday 8th of June and released on 13th of June, 2023.
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Upcoming events
Here are the upcoming events from the centralized Community Days site where you can find in-person, hybrid and online events for Microsoft 365 and more.
- AMS Berlin 2023 - June 15, 2023 - Berlin, Germany
- Iowa Code Camp 2023 - June 17-18, 2023 - Iowa, USA
- CollabDays Central Europe - June 17, 2023 - Zurich, Switzerland
- European Power Platform conference, June 20-22, 2023 - Dublin, Ireland
- Commsverse 2023 - June 21-22, 2023 - Surrey, United Kingdom
- Dynamics 365 Bootcamp CX Summit - June 23-24, 2023 - Brussels, Belgium
- CollabDays Zagreb - July 1, 2023 - Zagreb, Croatio
- 365 EduCon Seattle – August 21-25, 2023 - Seattle, WA, USA
- Metaverse One 2023 - September 20, 2023 - Virtual
- South Coast Summit 2023 - October 13-14, 2023 - Farnborough, United Kingdom
- Microsoft Ignite 2023 - November 15-16, 2023
- CollabDays Lisbon 2023 - November 25, 2023 - Lisbon, Portugal
- European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference 2023 - November 27-30 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
- AMS Aachen - November 16, 2023 - Aachen, Germany
- European Cloud Summit - December 4-6, 2023 - Wiesbaden, Germany
Additional resources
- PnP Sharing is Caring initiative - Getting started guidance and training for using GitHub and contributing to the community
- Check out all the great community calls, SDKs, and tooling for Microsoft 365 and Power Platform from https://aka.ms/m365/community
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