{"id":5233,"date":"2016-05-11T11:23:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mageworx.com\/?p=5233"},"modified":"2022-05-16T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T09:19:16","slug":"behind-the-scenes-of-developers-paradise-interview-with-aron-stanic-from-inchoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/interview-with-aron-stanic-from-inchoo","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes of Developers Paradise &#8211; Interview with Aron Stanic of Inchoo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- SEO Ultimate (http:\/\/www.seodesignsolutions.com\/wordpress-seo\/) - Code Inserter module -->\n<!-- Google Tag Manager (noscript) -->\r\n<noscript><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/ns.html?id=GTM-5DTCW7B8\"\r\nheight=\"0\" width=\"0\" style=\"display:none;visibility:hidden\"><\/iframe><\/noscript>\r\n<!-- End Google Tag Manager (noscript) -->\n<!-- \/SEO Ultimate -->\n\n<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5234\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1.png\" alt=\"1\" width=\"900\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1.png 900w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1-150x72.png 150w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1-768x370.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1-330x160.png 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">After a 2-year break, it was decided to resume <em><a href=\"http:\/\/developers-paradise.com\/\">Developers Paradise<\/a> <\/em>Magento events again. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">This time, the conference took place in Opatija, Croatia, from 25th to 28th April. It was organized and hosted by <strong>Inchoo<\/strong>.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s event was entirely focused on Magento 2 and dedicated to various aspects of its development.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">Despite the lack of sunny weather,\u00a0 Developers Paradise&#8217;16 was an awesome event, full of <em>insights and<\/em> <em>practical knowledge<\/em> on the new version of the eCommerce platform. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/\">Mageworx team<\/a> was happy to be the part of the all it &#8211; it was a great chance for us to share our experience and ideas on Magento 2 and just to hang out with cool Magento folks.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve interviewed one of the organizers of the conference &#8211; <strong>Aron Stanic<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8211; and asked him to tell how he and the Inchoo team managed to organize the event on such a high level. Here is what I&#8217;ve learned. <!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>V: Aron, could you please tell a couple of words about yourself and your position in the company.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5236 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/3afe0f282735bf9cf90e6f34cf0be66d-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"3afe0f282735bf9cf90e6f34cf0be66d\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/3afe0f282735bf9cf90e6f34cf0be66d-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/3afe0f282735bf9cf90e6f34cf0be66d-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/3afe0f282735bf9cf90e6f34cf0be66d-55x55.jpeg 55w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/3afe0f282735bf9cf90e6f34cf0be66d.jpeg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>A: Hi Vitaly, it was great to meet you guys in Opatija. As for myself, I\u2019m 38, a husband and father of two amazing little kids, and in my spare time I work at <a href=\"https:\/\/inchoo.net\/\">Inchoo<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Here, I\u2019m leading the sales team, working closely with many of our leads and clients. I\u2019ve been around Magento for almost 7 years and not coming from development background, I was happy to at least get a Magento Certified Solution Specialist badge to flash around.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>V: Oh, cool. And my first question to you &#8211; organizing a conference of such a high level is quite a challenge. Why did Inchoo decide to go for it?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Being very active in the community, and after visiting dozens of similar events (DPs, MMs, Imagine conferences&#8230;), we wanted to welcome everyone and bring Magento people to our country. At first, we were considering Meet Magento, but Developers Paradise was a much better choice, as it turned out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>V: I see. And how far out did you start planning the event?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> We started from Day 1 when we signed the agreement with Meet Magento Association, and that was some 8\u00ad-9 months back.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>V:\u00a0<\/strong> <strong>If you had a time machine and could go back to the past, what piece of advice would you give to yourself? Would you change any of the approaches you used in the organization process?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>\u0410:<\/strong> Keep calm and power through.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are many things we would do differently now that we have the experience, and many of those would have to do with lowering the pressure we put on ourselves. We wanted to organize a great event (which we hope we did) so there were many things that we saw we might have done just a bit better here and there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>V: And if it&#8217;s not a secret, how many people made it all happen?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> I was just one member of a team that put all of this together. In fact, my colleague <strong>Nandino Loncar<\/strong> was heading the organizing team, and upon the whole, we had the total of <em>11 people<\/em> heavily involved into the process, so this is where all the praise should go.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13122807_10153760450773759_2652877104950474407_o-1024x491.jpg\" alt=\"13122807_10153760450773759_2652877104950474407_o\" width=\"768\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13122807_10153760450773759_2652877104950474407_o-1024x491.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13122807_10153760450773759_2652877104950474407_o-150x72.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13122807_10153760450773759_2652877104950474407_o-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13122807_10153760450773759_2652877104950474407_o-768x368.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13122807_10153760450773759_2652877104950474407_o.jpg 2035w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>V:\u00a0 Now, with the help of <a href=\"https:\/\/snow.dog\/work\">Meet Magento app<\/a>, attendants can rate keynotes and speeches. Last time I checked it, the most popular keynote was the one by Bill Curtis (about Magento 2 Web APIs). In your option, what were the best, most exciting and useful speeches delivered at the conference?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 It was actually a 3-\u00adway tie <em>\u00ad Bill Curtis, Guido Jansen and Jisse Reitsma<\/em> all came in first place with the same average score of 4.8<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>And I wasn\u2019t actually around at all speeches, but what I saw as two great moments were the talks by our own <em>Hrvoje Jurisic on M2 frontend<\/em> which had the huddle\u00adup discussion between some 15-\u00ad20 people continue well into the break \u00ad that was cool as it certainly stirred some feelings.<\/p>\n<p>Another good moment was when <em>Ben Marks<\/em> asked everyone to speak really openly about everything that bothers them with Magento 2 in its current state. These are the moments that show what a great community we have built around Magento.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>V: Where there any topics you think should have been touched during the conference?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> I believe we have touched on all key challenges Magento 2 is facing, from both technical and even merchant perspective (even though there were no merchants on the conference, but that just showed that we care for our clients as much as we do about code quality).<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>V: What was the most memorable event at Developers Paradise for you personally?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Except for the parties? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Well, there were a lot of great presentations, and I mentioned a couple of those presentation moments before, but to me the favorite moment of the conference was finding out that we have a newly engaged couple \u00ad Daniel Sousa and Diana Santos got engaged in Opatija, and that is one story that takes the cake, even with all the Magento 2 talks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5235 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2.png\" alt=\"2\" width=\"900\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2.png 900w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2-150x72.png 150w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2-768x370.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2-330x160.png 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>V: As your CEO, Tomislav Bilic tweeted out, there are more and more female developers attending Magento events. What do you think of the trend?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> I think that\u2019s great.<\/p>\n<p>Development is really one of those professions where there are no obstacles (other than those in our minds) for women to excel at \u00ad and I love the fact that we proved that DP (or any other Magento event) is not \u201cjust for the boys\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>V:<\/strong> <strong>I\u2019ve talked to a lot of people during the conference and almost all of them called Developers Paradise the most informative and useful event on Magento 2 so far. Do you agree that Developers Paradise is the best event to learn the latest Magento trends and learn the industry insights? And how do you think Developers Paradise is different from the other Magento events?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> At the beginning, several years back, Developers Paradise was thought of more as a getaway to a nice resort and a way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/magento-2-reward-points.html\">reward<\/a> some of your key developers.<\/p>\n<p>This year, and for a reason (Magento 2), we decided to put a great focus to the agenda \u00ad the speakers and the topics. And it was a good decision judging by all the comments. One thing that makes it stand out is that there are no merchants at this event so perhaps the developers feel more at ease to speak freely without that feeling \u201ccan I \/ should I say this about Magento?\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>V: And my last question to you &#8211; does Inchoo have any plans to organize Developers Paradise next year?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> I\u2019ll tell you this \u00ad just before the conference we were quite exhausted with all the preparations work, if you asked us that question then you would\u2019ve gotten a clear \u201cno way!\u201d \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>But now, after the conference and gathering our thoughts, we\u2019d probably be interested in putting this all together again. We haven\u2019t made any plans yet, and this is ultimately the decision to be made by Meet Magento Association.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13173301_10153760445213759_6601177838837675032_o-1024x494.jpg\" alt=\"13173301_10153760445213759_6601177838837675032_o\" width=\"768\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13173301_10153760445213759_6601177838837675032_o-1024x494.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13173301_10153760445213759_6601177838837675032_o-150x72.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13173301_10153760445213759_6601177838837675032_o-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13173301_10153760445213759_6601177838837675032_o-768x371.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13173301_10153760445213759_6601177838837675032_o-330x160.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13173301_10153760445213759_6601177838837675032_o.jpg 1746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"st\"><em>We thank Aron for the interview and wish him and all the people from Inchoo team all the best!\u00a0 <\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>After a 2-year break, it was decided to resume Developers Paradise Magento events again. This time, the conference took place in Opatija, Croatia, from 25th to 28th April. It was organized and hosted by Inchoo.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s event was entirely focused on Magento 2 and dedicated to various aspects of its development.\u00a0 Despite the lack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[163],"class_list":{"0":"post-5233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-magento-community","8":"tag-magento-experts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5233"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15977,"href":"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233\/revisions\/15977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mageworx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}