Simon Tomes | Activities
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Inside the MoTaverse's slow pivot from testing community to tech community
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Great to hear your thoughts on the stage during This Week in Community (TWiC). Thanks for joining us! 🤩
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Great to hear your thoughts on the stage during This Week in Community (TWiC). Thanks for joining us! 🤩
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Rosie, Simon and Drew explore AI, authenticity, measuring what community really delivers and community building boundaries
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Are boundaries the answer to AI in communities?
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Are boundaries the answer to AI in communities?
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Are boundaries the answer to AI in communities?
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Are boundaries the answer to AI in communities?
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Are boundaries the answer to AI in communities?
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Are boundaries the answer to AI in communities?
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Are boundaries the answer to AI in communities?
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Are boundaries the answer to AI in communities?
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Are boundaries the answer to AI in communities?
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Rosie, Simon and Drew explore AI, authenticity, measuring what community really delivers and community building boundaries
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Inside the MoTaverse's slow pivot from testing community to tech community
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Rosie Sherry and Generalist World's Ece Kurtaraner talk small-scale events, lifetime membership models, and how they're each using Claude to cut community admin busywork.
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Small rooms, lifetime members, and community Claude skills
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Small rooms, lifetime members, and community Claude skills
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Small rooms, lifetime members, and community Claude skills
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Small rooms, lifetime members, and community Claude skills
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In a recent discussion with Ambassadors I mentioned that I have been referred to before as "Dr Default". I thought this might be an interesting persona to explore.While others jump straight into ho...
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Dr Default persona
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Dr Default persona
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Inside the MoTaverse's slow pivot from testing community to tech community
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Simon Tomes returns to Into the MoTaverse for a six-month check-in with Rosie on Community as a Service, care, joy, and the slow pivot to becoming a tech community.
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This badge is awarded to members who attend 25 MoTaverse events.
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This badge is awarded to members who attend 10 MoTaverse events.
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This badge is awarded to members who attend their first MoTaverse event.
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TWiC — This Week in Community
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A weekly gathering to talk about all things community building
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TWiC — This Week in Community
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A weekly gathering to talk about all things community building
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TWiC — This Week in Community
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A weekly gathering to talk about all things community building
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Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
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Explore how the MoTaverse is thinking about community
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Career growth with a Community as a Service (CaaS) mindset - Into The MoTaverse - Episode 2
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Career growth with a Community as a Service (CaaS) mindset - Into The MoTaverse - Episode 2
awarded Rosie Sherry for:
Career growth with a Community as a Service (CaaS) mindset - Into The MoTaverse - Episode 2
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Career growth with a Community as a Service (CaaS) mindset - Into The MoTaverse - Episode 2
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The Hidden Loop of Quality Engineering
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Nice to Rahul's writing and story on the Wonderproxy blog.Good on you for making this opportunity available to folks. 🤩
awarded Rahul Parwal for:
Nice to see your writing and story on the Wonderproxy blog.Good on Paul Reinheimer for making that opportunity available to folks.
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How I destroyed a 3000 $ IoT Device, and what it taught me about testing
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How does registering for a conference like MoTaCon link back to QE for me?
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Digital government services increase accessibility gap
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What's Good? Episode 1 - Be More Human
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What “Project Hail Mary” Taught Me About Working in Tech (part 4)
Simon Tomes
Community Lead at MoTaverse
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Hello, I'm Simon. Since 2003 I've had various roles in testing, tech leadership and coaching. I believe in the power of collaboration, creativity and community. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified.
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