diff --git a/website/docs/community/spotlight/fabiyi-opeyemi.md b/website/docs/community/spotlight/fabiyi-opeyemi.md
index 9b78ff179c1..b5b4bf8c9e0 100644
--- a/website/docs/community/spotlight/fabiyi-opeyemi.md
+++ b/website/docs/community/spotlight/fabiyi-opeyemi.md
@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@
id: fabiyi-opeyemi
title: Opeyemi Fabiyi
description: |
- I'm an Analytics Engineer with Data Culture, a Data Consulting firm where I use dbt regularly to help clients build quality-tested data assets. I've also got a background in financial services and supply chain. I'm passionate about helping organizations to become data-driven and I majorly use dbt for data modeling, while the other aspect of the stack is largely dependent on the client infrastructure I'm working for, so I often say I'm tool-agnostic. 😀
-
- I'm the founder of Nigeria's Young Data Professional Community. I'm also the organizer of the Lagos dbt Meetup which I started, and one of the organizers of the DataFest Africa Conference. I became an active member of the dbt Community in 2021 & spoke at Coalesce 2022.
+ I’m an Analytics Engineer with Data Culture, a Data Consulting firm where I use dbt regularly to help clients build quality-tested data assets. Before Data Culture, I worked at Cowrywise, one of the leading Fintech companies in Nigeria, where I was a solo data team member, and that was my first introduction to dbt and Analytics Engineering. Before that, I was doing Data Science and Analytics at Deloitte Nigeria. It’s been an exciting journey since I started using dbt and joining the community.Outside of work, I’m very passionate about Community building and Data Advocacy. I founded one of Nigeria’s most vibrant Data communities, “The Young Data Professional Community.” I’m also the Founder of the Lagos dbt Meetup and one of the organizers of the Largest Data Conference in Africa, DataFest Africa Conference. I became an active member of the dbt community in 2021 & spoke at Coalesce 2022. So when I’m not actively working I’m involved in one community activity or the other.
image: /img/community/spotlight/fabiyi-opeyemi.jpg
pronouns: he/him
location: Lagos, Nigeria
@@ -40,4 +38,4 @@ I've learned how to show empathy as a data professional and be a great engineer
## Anything else interesting you want to tell us?
-Maybe, I will consider DevRel as a career sometime because of my innate passion and love for community and people. Several folks tell me I'm a strong DevRel talent and a valuable asset for any product-led company. If you need someone to bounce ideas off of or discuss😃 your community engagement efforts, please feel free to reach out.
+Maybe I will consider DevRel as a career sometime because of my innate passion and love for community and people. Several folks tell me I’m a strong DevRel talent and a valuable asset for any product-led company. If you need someone to bounce ideas off of or discuss your community engagement efforts, please feel free to reach out. On a side note, it was really exciting for me to attend Coalesce 2024 in Vegas in person, which allowed me not only to learn but, most importantly, to meet amazing persons I’ve only interacted with online, like Bruno, Kuberjain, Dakota and many more; shout-out to Zenlytic and Lightdash for making that possible and, most importantly, a huge shout-out to the dbt Lab community team: Amada, Natasha and everyone on the community team for their constant supports to helping out with making the dbt Lagos (Nigeria) meetup a success.
diff --git a/website/docs/community/spotlight/jenna-jordan.md b/website/docs/community/spotlight/jenna-jordan.md
index cb16ca0afdf..86f19f125f8 100644
--- a/website/docs/community/spotlight/jenna-jordan.md
+++ b/website/docs/community/spotlight/jenna-jordan.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ communityAwardYear: 2024
## When did you join the dbt community and in what way has it impacted your career?
-My dbt learning journey kicked off with the CoRise (now Uplimit) course Analytics Engineering with dbt, with Emily Hawkins and Jake Hannan, in February 2022 – less than a month after starting as a data engineer with the City of Boston Analytics Team. About a year later, I spearheaded the adoption of dbt at the City and got to build the project and associated architecture from scratch – which is probably the best learning experience you could ask for! I saw the value dbt could bring to improving data management processes at the City, and I knew there were other cities and local governments that could benefit from dbt as well, which motivated me to find my fellow co-speakers Ian Rose and Laurie Merrell to give a talk at Coalesce 2023 called "From Coast to Coast: Implementing dbt in the public sector". As a part of our goal to identify and cultivate a community of dbt practitioners in the public (and adjacent) sectors, we also started the dbt Community Slack channel #industry-public-sector. That experience allowed me to continue to grow my career and find my current role - as well as connect with so many amazing data folks!
+My dbt learning journey kicked off with the CoRise (now Uplimit) course Analytics Engineering with dbt, with Emily Hawkins and Jake Hannan, in February 2022 – less than a month after starting as a data engineer with the City of Boston Analytics Team. About a year later, I spearheaded the adoption of dbt at the City and got to build the project and associated architecture from scratch – which is probably the best learning experience you could ask for! I saw the value dbt could bring to improving data management processes at the City, and I knew there were other cities and local governments that could benefit from dbt as well, which motivated me to find my fellow co-speakers Ian Rose and Laurie Merrell to give a talk at Coalesce 2023 called "From Coast to Coast: Implementing dbt in the public sector." As a part of our goal to identify and cultivate a community of dbt practitioners in the public (and adjacent) sectors, we also started the dbt Community Slack channel #industry-public-sector. That experience allowed me to continue to grow my career and find my current role - as well as connect with so many amazing data folks!
## What dbt community leader do you identify with? How are you looking to grow your leadership in the dbt community?
diff --git a/website/docs/community/spotlight/meagan-palmer.md b/website/docs/community/spotlight/meagan-palmer.md
index 697a35d80f0..fffc2a6e0d6 100644
--- a/website/docs/community/spotlight/meagan-palmer.md
+++ b/website/docs/community/spotlight/meagan-palmer.md
@@ -3,8 +3,11 @@ id: meagan-palmer
title: Meagan Palmer
description: |
I first started using dbt in 2016 or 2017 (I can't remember exactly). Since then, I have moved into data and analytics consulting and have dipped in and out of the dbt Community.
+
Late last year, I started leading dbt Cloud training courses and spending more time in the dbt Slack.
+
In consulting, I get to use a range of stacks. I've used dbt with Redshift, Snowflake, and Databricks in production settings with a range of loaders & reporting tools, and I've been enjoying using DuckDB for some home experimentation.
+
To share some of the experiences, I regularly post to LinkedIn and have recently started Analytics Engineering Today, a twice monthly newsletter about dbt in practice.
image: /img/community/spotlight/Meagan-Palmer.png
pronouns: she/her
diff --git a/website/docs/community/spotlight/mike-stanley.md b/website/docs/community/spotlight/mike-stanley.md
index 1d1f13f1a93..853b0e2f704 100644
--- a/website/docs/community/spotlight/mike-stanley.md
+++ b/website/docs/community/spotlight/mike-stanley.md
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
id: mike-stanley
title: Mike Stanley
description: |
- Mike has been very helpful in dbt Slack, answering questions in channels like #advice-for-dbt-power-users, #advice-dbt-help, #db-bigquery and more. From October 2023 to October 2024, Mike responded to others’ posts 2,355 times. Mike is a truly humble community member who needs no credit or awards, and doesn't even have a profile picture in Slack.
+ I've split my time between financial services and the video games industry. Back when I wrote code every day, I worked in marketing analytics and marketing technology. I've been in the dbt community for about two years. I haven't authored any extensions to dbt's adapters yet but I've given feedback on proposed changes!
image: /img/community/spotlight/mike-stanley.jpg
pronouns: he/him
-location: Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
+location: London, United Kingdom
jobTitle: Manager, Data
companyName: Freetrade
socialLinks:
@@ -16,3 +16,15 @@ hide_table_of_contents: true
communityAward: true
communityAwardYear: 2024
---
+
+## When did you join the dbt community and in what way has it impacted your career?
+
+I've led data teams for almost ten years now and it can be a challenge to stay current on new technology when you're spending a lot of time on leadership and management. I joined the dbt Community to learn how to get more from it, how to solve problems and use more advanced features, and to learn best practices. I find that answering questions is the way I learn best, so I started helping people!
+
+## Which dbt Community leader do you identify with? How are you looking to grow your leadership in the dbt community?
+
+I hope that we can all continue to level up our dbt skills and leave the data environments that we work in better than we found them.
+
+## What have you learned from community members? What do you hope others can learn from you?
+
+Everything! People share so much about their best practices and when and how to deviate from them, interesting extensions to dbt that they've worked on, common bugs and problems, and how to think in a "dbtish" way. I couldn't have learned any of that without the community!
diff --git a/website/docs/community/spotlight/original-dbt-athena-maintainers.md b/website/docs/community/spotlight/original-dbt-athena-maintainers.md
index 158aa30997b..b3728a71d63 100644
--- a/website/docs/community/spotlight/original-dbt-athena-maintainers.md
+++ b/website/docs/community/spotlight/original-dbt-athena-maintainers.md
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ id: original-dbt-athena-maintainers
title: The Original dbt-athena Maintainers
description: |
The original dbt-athena Maintainers is a group of 5 people—Jérémy Guiselin, Mattia, Jesse Dobbelaere, Serhii Dimchenko, and Nicola Corda—who met via dbt Slack in the #db-athena channel, with the aim to make make dbt-athena a production-ready adapter.
+
In the first periods, Winter 2022 and Spring 2023, we focused on contributing directly to the adapter, adding relevant features like Iceberg and Lake Formation support, and stabilizing some internal behaviour.
+
On a second iteration our role was triaging, providing community support and bug fixing. We encouraged community members to make their first contributions, and helped them to merge their PRs.
-image: /img/community/spotlight/dbt-athena-groupheadshot.png
+image: /img/community/spotlight/dbt-athena-groupheadshot.jpg
location: Europe
jobTitle: A group of data-engineers
companyName: Mix of companies
diff --git a/website/docusaurus.config.js b/website/docusaurus.config.js
index 9fe63267d61..a6cb4e40628 100644
--- a/website/docusaurus.config.js
+++ b/website/docusaurus.config.js
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ var siteSettings = {
"https://www.getdbt.com/resources/webinars/dbt-cloud-demos-with-experts/?utm_medium=i[…]ly-demos_aw&utm_content=biweekly-demos____&utm_term=all_all__",
// Set community spotlight member on homepage
// This is the ID for a specific file under docs/community/spotlight
- communitySpotlightMember: "meagan-palmer",
+ communitySpotlightMember: "original-dbt-athena-maintainers",
prism: {
theme: (() => {
var theme = themes.nightOwl;
diff --git a/website/src/components/blogPostCard/styles.module.css b/website/src/components/blogPostCard/styles.module.css
index 388dc8a8c8b..6c97f6060f0 100644
--- a/website/src/components/blogPostCard/styles.module.css
+++ b/website/src/components/blogPostCard/styles.module.css
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.imageContentContainer {
width: 100%;
border-radius: var(--border-radius) var(--border-radius) 0px 0px;
- min-height: 200px;
+ min-height: 250px;
}
diff --git a/website/src/components/communitySpotlightList/index.js b/website/src/components/communitySpotlightList/index.js
index 8355fd0958b..76cc5de2121 100644
--- a/website/src/components/communitySpotlightList/index.js
+++ b/website/src/components/communitySpotlightList/index.js
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ const communityDescription = "The dbt Community is where analytics engineering l
// This date determines where the 'Previously on the Spotlight" text will show.
// Any spotlight members with a 'dateCreated' field before this date
// will be under the 'Previously..' header.
-const currentSpotlightDate = new Date('2024-07-26')
+const currentSpotlightDate = new Date('2024-10-30')
function CommunitySpotlightList({ spotlightData }) {
const { siteConfig } = useDocusaurusContext()
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