🎙️ Creating Excellent Developer Docs and Content

Jonathan Gottfried, Jenn Leaver, Lorna Mitchell, and Andrew Jiang discussed creating excellent developer-focused content, measuring the effectiveness of a content strategy, and the modern tooling required to level up developer experience through content and docs.

📖 Developer Experience: What not to do

Shuba Swaminathan shares a list of guaranteed developer repellents through the lens of her own experience.

📖 How to Evaluate Video Performance in Developer Relations

Kevin Blanco encourages us to embrace video content as a strategic pillar of our DevRel efforts, measure its effectiveness well, and ensure it aligns with our DevRel goals.

📖 The Developer Pyramid: a Blueprint for Developer Programs

Byrne Reese introduces the Developer Pyramid as a simple construct representing how developers learn and engage with a platform, how communities grow around that platform, and how programs are structured to support individual developers while nurturing communities into maturity.

📖 Breaking into DevRel: How to Become a Developer Advocate?

Aditya Thakur reflects on his past year as a Developer Advocate and offers some tips for folks looking to break into DevRel.

📢 DevRelCon New York 📢

🎉 DevRelCon is coming to NYC! - Join us July 18-19 to hear talks from industry leaders, connect with your peers on best practices, and participate in hands-on workshops and discussions. Grab a ticket today at nyc24.devrelcon.dev and use the coupon code DEVELOPERAVOCADOS for $50 off!

📚 CFPs 📚

🐥 Infobip Shift
CFP: https://sessionize.com/infobip-shift-2024
Deadline: June 1, 2024
Location: Zadar, Croatia
Date: September 16-17, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://shift.infobip.com/code/

🐍 PyLatam
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/pyconlatam24
Deadline: June 10, 2024
Location: Mazatlan, Mexico
Date: September 19-21, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://www.pylatam.org/conducta/

🦀 EuroRust
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/eurorust-2024
Deadline: June 3, 2024
Location: Vienna, Austria
Date: October 10-11, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://eurorust.eu/code-of-conduct/

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📖 The DevRel Guide to Business Jargon

Cecelia Martinez gives us a guide on some common business and marketing terms we may come across, so that we can ensure our DevRel activities are contributing to these goals and we're better equipped to communicate HOW they contribute.

📖 6 Best Practices for Hosting Developer-Focused Events

Sophia Iroegbu shares some best practices for hosting a developer-focused event and making it a huge success.

📖 How to Write Accessible Technical Documentation

Ezinne Anne Emilia shares some of the best practices for implementing web accessibility in technical writing. These strategies will help improve your documentation and make it more user-friendly and accessible to everyone.

📖 Understanding the Duties of a Community Manager

Mfonobong Umondia gives us a glimpse into some of the most common duties a Community Manager typically carries out in an organisation.

📖 DevRel Done Right: How to Avoid Common Mistakes and Become a Developer Darling

Reet Batra reflects on her DevRel experience and makes the case for leading with authenticity in DevRel. Shares a practical guide to help you set yourself up for success and become a truly awesome DevRel person.

🎬 Is DevRel Dead?

Jason Lengstorf shares his insights on the changing role of DevRel, the importance of storytelling in content creation, and the shift towards building awareness through community-focused strategies.

📚 CFPs 📚

🌄 JSConf Chile
CFP: https://tally.so/r/nGzzYz
Deadline: May 11, 2024
Location: Santiago, Chile
Date: September 5-7, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://github.com/jsconfcl/code_of_conduct

🌴 Devopsdays Tampa Bay
CFP: https://sessionize.com/devops-days-tampa-bay-2024
Deadline: May 15, 2024
Location: Tampa, FL
Date: September 19, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-tampa/conduct

🐹 GopherCon UK
CFP: https://sessionize.com/gophercon-uk-2024/
Deadline: May 17, 2024
Location: London, UK
Date: August 14-16, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://www.gophercon.co.uk/conduct

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📖 No One Gives a &*^@# About Your DevRel/Community Programs (and What to Do About It)

Angie Byron shared a collection of lessons learned—most of them the hard way—in the hopes they can help others who are struggling in DevRel right now.

📖 Being a First-Time Mom in Developer Relations

Amanda Cavallaro shared her experience of becoming a mom while working in Developer Relations and the ways her journey continues to evolve as a developer advocate and a mother.

📖 Short Tech Writing Style Guide for Developers

Lorna Mitchell shared a short-form style guide she started using after running a number of projects with developers rather than specialist documentarians as the main contributors.

📖 What is Your Speaker Mission Statement?

Cecelia Martinez recommended crafting a mission statement for why and how you speak to audiences. Doing so makes the process of writing abstracts less overwhelming and ensures that you get joy out of speaking.

📖 How Recurring Hackathons Drive Continuous Growth

Rachael Amy made a strong case that the progression through multiple hackathons offers a parallel experience of growth and comfort within a developer community.

🎬 The DevRel Playbook for Web3 Companies in 20 Minutes

Ben Greenberg introduced a framework for DevRel that you can use in any blockchain company where developer success is at the core of your business model.

📖 How Does a Changed Market Affect Developer Relations?

Christian Heilmann wrote about how the changing landscape for big tech companies affects expectations for Developer Relations and what we can do to fix the ecosystem.

📚 CFPs 📚

👾 Pixel Pioneers
CFP: https://pixelpioneers.co/call-for-speakers
Deadline: April 15, 2024
Location: Bristol, UK
Date: June 14, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://pixelpioneers.co/code-of-conduct

🐐 EuRuKo
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/euruko2024
Deadline: April 15, 2024
Location: Sarajevo, BiH
Date: September 11-13, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://2024.euruko.org/coc/

🤖 DroidCon San Francisco
CFP: https://sessionize.com/droidcon-san-francisco-2024/
Deadline: April 7, 2024
Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: June 6-7, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://sf.droidcon.com/code-of-conduct/

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Season's Greetings to all the Avocados in here! 🥑✨ As the year wraps up, we wanted to express our heartfelt gratitude for being here with us, for the past 5 years. Your support and feedback have been the only reasons we keep reading, curating and publishing this newsletter.

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📖 A Framework for Brainstorming Talk Ideas

Melinda Seckington shared a framework to help you change your perspective in how you approach your talk ideas, and consider the needs of the event and the community.

📖 Developer Content Strategies That Work (and Scale)

Karl Hughes explores effective strategies for developing and scaling content for developers, through experimentation, ongoing refinement, and iteration.

📖 User Centric Technical Writing

Kosara Golemshinska discusses the role of documentation at FINN, leaning into User Experience research methods to craft impactful documentation, and their current docs strategy and challenges around it.

📖 Community is the Business

Rosie Sherry talks about what happens when treating your community as the bussiness becomes a competitive advantage for the trust and relationships you've built up along the way.

📻 Demystifying DevRel and Tech Writing

Kruno Golubic and Katarina Šupe explain the benefits of a successful mentorship initiative, the different definitions of developer experience, and the challenges of technical writing that set it apart from other disciplines.

📺 Community Management And Content Creation

Eleftheria Batsou and Ganesh Patil talked about community management, community building, content strategies, event management, and ways to monetize a community.

📻 From Evangelism to Advocacy

Jeremy Meiss outlines the growing importance of DevRel in community and Developer Experience as well as the diverse career paths for DevRel professionals.

📢 A Word From Our Sponsor - draft.dev 📢

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📚 CFPs 📚

🦘 RubyConf AU
CFP: https://sessionize.com/rubyconf-au-2024
Deadline: January 12, 2024
Location: Sydney, Australia
Date: April 11-12, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://ruby.org.au/policies/code-of-conduct

🥘 Wasm I/O
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/wasmio24
Deadline: January 1, 2024
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Date: March 14-15, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://2024.wasmio.tech/codeofconduct/

🥐 NewCrafts
CFP: https://sessionize.com/newcrafts-paris-2024
Deadline: January 14, 2024
Location: Paris, France
Date: May 16-17, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://ncrafts.io/

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📖 The Evolving Landscape of DevRel

Bekah wrote an exploration of the field, some of the changes and challenges we face, and where she thinks we’re headed.

📖 The must-have content to include in your API documentation

Joanna Suau wrote a list of API content must-haves so that you make sure your API reference provides the best possible developer experience for your users.

📻 What is DevRel

Wes and Scott talk with Salma Alam-Naylor all about her role in DevRel, what’s involved in working in DevRel, avoiding burnout, which platforms to focus on, and so much more.

📖 From docs to devs

Bruna Andrade wrote about their journey with shifting focus to instructional content, and enhancing the learning experience of developers by fostering understanding and hands-on experiences.

📖 Managing an online community

Andrew Owen talks about managing conflict resolution in online communities.

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📖 Best Open Source and Paid OpenAPI Documentation Generators

Dylan Huang researched and compared the best open-source and paid OpenAPI documentation generators, including their own.

📖 Our Hacktoberfest Success Story

Bekah talked about Open Sauced using Hacktoberfest for the future and the relationships they cultivated over the last month.

📖 How To De-index Your Docs From Google (And Then Fix It)

Steven Hicks talked about Camunda's adventures in SEOland.

📖 Watch out for the community ideas trap

Rosie Sherry discussed qualifying new ideas for your community, hoping it would help people avoid unnecessary pain.

📖 Essential Reads and Resources for Developer Marketers

Inna Pykhova compiled a list of books and resources offering insights and strategies for Developer Relations, Developer Marketing, and beyond.

📚 CFPs 📚

🧦 KotlinConf
CFP: https://sessionize.com/kotlinconf-2024
Deadline: November 27, 2023
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Date: May 22-24, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://kotlinconf.com/code-of-conduct/

🏰 JCON Europe
CFP: https://sessionize.com/jcon-europe-2024
Deadline: November 30, 2023
Location: Köln, Germany
Date: May 13-16, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://2023.europe.jcon.one/code-of-conduct

🍲 JSHeroes
CFP: https://sessionize.com/jsheroes-2024
Deadline: December 31, 2023
Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Date: May 23-24, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://jsheroes.io/coc

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📻 An Agile Approach to Developer Content

Shruti Kuber joins Kamran Ayub, to talk about how her startup uses an iterative, collaborative approach to planning developer video content that works for a small team – and why starting with a niche audience is helping them create content that is getting noticed.

📺 Developer Relations 101

Logan Kilpatrick discusses what his role at OpenAI looks like, how he went from being a Machine Learning engineer at Apple to Developer Relations Advocate at OpenAI and his tips for people looking to transition into a career of developer relations.

📖 Redefining Technical Documentation

Luisa Cortón takes us down memory lane and give us a glimpse into what has happened over the past three years, showcasing how disruption drove the evolution of technical documentation at Empathy.co.

📖 Appwrite's Hacktoberfest 2023 journey

Aditya Oberai shared stats from their sponsorship and participation in Hacktoberfest this year.

📖 Killer Strategies for Discord Marketing Success

Nicole 'Redd' Johnson shared strategies you can use to increase your member count on your Discord server.

📖 Using DevRel Market Research to Compare Developer Programs

Larry McDonough compares recent market data products about developer programs from a couple of research firms.

📖 READme or READ-meh?

Stephen Joel shared four tips to craft high quality READMEs and engage with developers from the first impression.

📢 A Word From Our Sponsor - draft.dev 📢

🎉 Draft.dev has helped over 100 developer relations teams - scale up their technical content production. Book a call to learn more about how we can help you grow and improve your content production efforts.

📚 CFPs 📚

🐚 Webdevcon
CFP: https://sessionize.com/webdevcon-2024
Deadline: December 17, 2023
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date: March 12-15, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://webdevcon.nl/code-of-conduct/

🍕 jsday
CFP: https://sessionize.com/jsday-2024
Deadline: December 15, 2023
Location: Verona, Italy
Date: April 11-12, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://2024.jsday.it/welcome/coc.html

🧀 Dutch PHP
CFP: https://sessionize.com/dpc24
Deadline: December 17, 2023
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date: March 12-15, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://phpconference.nl/code-of-conduct

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📖 Celebrating Hacktoberfest With Tips for Open-Source

Ioana Chiorean looked at the open source ecosystem, why it’s a big deal, and which tips CodeSandbox engineers have for everyone wanting to contribute.

📺 I Interviewed My Boss

Chris Sean interviewed Jonan Scheffler about his journey from living below poverty with a kid on the way to becoming the Director of Developer Relations at New Relic and Web3 startups.

📺 Overtired #337: The DevRel Episode

Jay Miller joins Brett and Christina to talk about life in Developer Relations, a little bit of Taylor Swift, and some intriguing app discussions.

📖 How to Write Technical Documentation That People Will Actually Read and Use

Hal Deranek talked about why understanding for whom you are writing, how to put your ideas together, and why you’re writing are critical for your technical documentation.

📖 Mastering Developer Relations: Metrics, KPIs, and Collaboration with Product Teams

Jossif Elefteriadis explore two aspects of DevRel: 'Metrics and KPIs' and 'Collaboration with Product Teams.

📖 Leading your tech docs team

Carlos Arriaga shared three elements to consider when leading and managing a successfull docs team.

📚 CFPs 📚

🌅 Devops Days Recife
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/dodrec23
Deadline: November 01, 2023
Location: Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil
Date: December 2, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://devopsdays.org/conduct/

⛲️ DevFest Kansas City
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/devfestkc2023
Deadline: November 2, 2023
Location: Kansas City, MO, USA
Date: December 2, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://devfestkc.com/code-of-conduct

🦊 DevOpsDays Nova Lima
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/devopsdaysnovalima
Deadline: November 24, 2023
Location: Nova Lima, Brazil
Date: March, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://devopsdays.org/conduct/

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📺 Revolutionising the Developer Experience

Mish Mannering joins Michelle Sandford to share the latest hot-off-the-press updates on developer research at GitHub, CoPilot usage, prompt engineering, what’s off the waitlist now and what you can use, as well as a bunch of other super cool things.

📖 Writing REST and OpenAPI documentation for a broad audience

Ted Spence shared his theory on writing usable documentation without going crazy.

📖 The Role of Documentation in Open Source Success

Bekah talked about the significance of documentation in open source and shared best practices for creating comprehensive and accessible documentation.

📖 Preparing Conference Talk Delivery

Kevin Murphy started a 'Conference Talk Preparation Series' to share his experience and tips on preparing for a conference talk.

📖 👑🤴Content is King; Community is Queen 👸, and Data is the heir apparent 🫅!

Dumebi Okolo wrote an article detailing the dynamic trio: Content, Community, and Data, and the impact they have on the developer community.

📖 Reimagining the Developer Journey Map: The “Build to Learn” Approach

Inna Pykhova challenges the traditional developer customer journey with the “Build to Learn” approach, where developers predominantly learn through the act of building.

📻 Telling Delightful Stories for Developers Through Doodling

David Neal unpacks the transformative power of illustrations in developer education.

📢 A Word From Our Sponsor - draft.dev 📢

🎉 Draft.dev has helped over 100 developer relations teams scale up their technical content production. Book a call to learn more about how we can help you grow and improve your content production efforts.

📚 CFPs 📚

🛩️ Render Atlanta
CFP: https://sessionize.com/renderatl-2024
Deadline: November 13, 2023
Location: Atlanta, GA, USA
Date: June 12-14, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://www.renderatl.com/code-of-conduct

🍕 php[tek]
CFP: https://sessionize.com/phptek-2024
Deadline: November 30, 2023
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Date: April 23-25, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://tek.phparch.com/code-of-conduct

🐻‍❄️ DevSum
CFP: https://sessionize.com/devsum-2024
Deadline: December 3, 2023
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Date: May 16-17, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://www.devsum.se/about/code-of-conduct

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📖 Moving Developer Relations Forward

Jeremy Meiss wrote a series on Developer Relations, and how we can move it forward into the years to come. It is not meant as a definitive roadmap but more as a kickstart down the road of conversation. Please comment as you see fit and be part of what Developer Relations can become.

📖 7 Lessons I learned from recording and editing short videos

Jess Temporal shared some of the lessons she learned from her journey to become more comfortable with recording and editing videos.

📖 How to cultivate a writing culture

Steph Blotner shared how she cultivated a writing culture with an engineering team at Uber.

📻 Building a Community around Cloud-Native Content

Bret Fisher joins Corey Quinn to discuss what it’s like being a practitioner and a content creator in the world of cloud.

📖 Thoughts on the Climate crisis and being a Developer (Advocate)

Julien Lengrand-Lambert shared a personal journey they've embarked on as a family a couple of years back to reduce their impact on the world around them.

📖 Writing for localization

Ika Chamielec wrote about how writing with localization in mind can help you create content that is friendlier for both human and machine translators.

📖 Closing a chapter at GitHub

Rizèl Scarlett reflected on her journey at GitHub and shared her next career move and the reasons behind it.

📢 A Word From Our Sponsor - draft.dev 📢

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📚 CFPs 📚

🦘 Write the Docs Australia
CFP: https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/australia/2023/cfp/
Deadline: September 15, 2023
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Date: December 7-8, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://www.writethedocs.org/code-of-conduct/

🫎 ConFoo
CFP: https://confoo.ca/en/2024/call-for-papers
Deadline: September 23, 2023
Location: Montreal, Canada
Date: February 21-23, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://confoo.ca/en/code-of-conduct

🦃 php[tek]
CFP: https://sessionize.com/phptek-2024
Deadline: November 30, 2023
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Date: April 23-25, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://tek.phparch.com/code-of-conduct

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📖 The 2023 Developer Relations compensation & culture report

Rebecca Marshburn talked about the 2023 Developer Relations compensation report. The report included additional analysis around roles and responsibilities, business impact and success metrics, and personal well-being to better understand trends around the multiple aspects that shape the experience of individuals within the industry.

📻 A letter to Recruiters

Tessa Kriesel and Taylor Desseyn are diving into how recruiters need to handle the engineering ecosystem of tech.

📺 Why I left Developer Relations

Ali Diamond shared why, after 5 years in the space, stepped away and went to full-time engineering.

🗞️ Community Contribution at: Airbyte

Gareth Wilson wrote a deep dive into the strategy and tactics Airbyte used to create an industry-leading catalog of connectors and how community contribution can help make big visions a reality.

📖 Emphasizing Personal Experiences with Callouts

Yaakov Bressler advocates drawing attention to your personal experience in articles without disrupting the flow of your narrative.

📖 A migration story: Slack to Discord

Tiffany Oda interviewed Max Pete about the recent migration of the SuperHi community from Slack to Discord.

📖 My First Year as a Developer Advocate

Courtney Yatteau unveiled her conference experiences from her first year as a Developer Advocate.

📚 CFPs 📚

🥩 Swiftable
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/swiftable2023
Deadline: September 16, 2023
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: November 30 - December 1, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://www.swiftable.co/code-conduct

🍗 Render Atlanta
CFP: https://sessionize.com/renderatl-2024
Deadline: November 13, 2023
Location: Atlanta, GA, USA
Date: June 12-14, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://www.renderatl.com/code-of-conduct

🍟 SDD
CFP: https://sessionize.com/sdd-2024
Deadline: October 6, 2023
Location: London, UK
Date: May 13-17, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://sddvault.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/SDD%20Code%20of%20Conduct.pdf

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📻 The Value of Good Editing in Content Creation

Alysha Love and Corey Quinn explore the differences in editing for something that will be read silently versus something that will be read out loud, as well as the different styles of editing.

📖 Incentivizing Community Members to Answer Questions From Their Peers

Jordan Violet shared some short notes on incentivizing community members to answer questions from their peers.

📖 UX Writing as a Tech Writer

Shavindri Dissanayake shared her experience as a technical writer who reviews UX text and what her team does to handle the workload.

📖 How I Became a Tech Conference Speaker as a Newbie & How You Can Do It Too

Eleftheria Batsou shared her journey into public speaking and tips for following in her footsteps.

📺 Life of a Developer Advocate: Tech Skills, Conferences, & Content Creation

Steve, Cody, and Erik discuss the challenges of transitioning between projects, the rise of developer advocates, measuring the ROI of advocacy efforts, and the value of learning multiple programming languages.

📚 CFPs 📚

🐘 PHP UK
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/phpuk2024
Deadline: September 30, 2023
Location: London, UK
Date: February 15-16, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://www.phpconference.co.uk/conduct/

🦘 NDC Sydney
CFP: https://sessionize.com/ndc-sydney-2024
Deadline: October 8, 2023
Location: Sydney, Australia
Date: February 12-16, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://ndcsydney.com/code-of-conduct

🐻‍❄️ EuroSTAR
CFP: https://conference.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/call-for-submissions/
Deadline: September 17, 2023
Location: Stockholmsmässan, Sweden
Date: June 11-14, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://conference.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/anti-harassment-policy/

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📖 How to make an impact as a developer advocate

Rizèl Scarlett shared her experience for catalyzing change and leaving an indelible mark on the tech landscape as a developer advocate.

📖 The Developer Relations Capability Maturity Model

Jordan Violet shared a model he's been using for the past two years to gauge the Developer Relations program's maturity within a business.

📖 The confluence of UX and DX for API Design

Xavier Spriet talked about including the core user experience activities within the context of developer experience for API design.

📖 How to Lose Your Writing Voice and How to Get it Back

Stephan Miller talked about writing 850 articles in the past 4 years and losing his writing voice in the process.

📖 Lessons Learned In 2 Years of Blogging

Maddy Onyehara shared about her blogging journey and the lessons she learned in the past 2 years while turning her blog into a bit of side hustle she treats like a business.

📖 6 Years and 180 (Virtual) Events Later...

Brian Rinaldi shared his journey of organizing 180 virtual events in the past 6 years and going from being a virtual event skeptic to being a virtual event veteran.

📖 Women Developer Academy has launched!

Monika Janota announced Google is launching the WDA English Edition in October and is looking for applications for their mentoring program.

📚 CFPs 📚

🐻‍❄️ Jfokus
CFP: https://sessionize.com/jfokus-2024
Deadline: September 30, 2023
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Date: February 5-7, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://www.jfokus.se/articles/code-of-conduct

🐼 PyCon Indonesia
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/pyconid2023
Deadline: September 15, 2023
Location: Bandung, Indonesia
Date: November 18-19, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://pycon.id/coc

🐻 Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas
CFP: https://sessionize.com/vslive-las-vegas-2024
Deadline: September 11, 2023
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Date: March 3-8, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://vslive.com/pages/harassment.aspx

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📻 The Role of DevRel at Google

Richard Seroter and Corey Quinn discuss how Google views the DevRel function and why they feel it’s so critical to communicate expectations for product launches with customers.

📻 Defining Your Role Before Someone Else Does

Angie Jones, Evan Hamilton, Mary Thengvall, Wesley Faulkner and Jason Hand talk through how to define your role and defend your team against that very real possibility of being tasked with items that don’t belong within your purview.

📺 Developer Advocacy, Burnout Recovery and Communities

Lian Li and Patrick Akil talked about the impact of developer advocacy, recovering from a burnout and building a community.

📖 How Technical Writing Taught Me More About Writing Than My English Degree

Tanvi Desai learned that good technical writing is all about serving others.

📖 Developer eXperience of APIs and Algorithms

Jarkko Moilanen talked about the differences in developer experience between APIs and algorithms.

📖 10 things I wish I knew before getting on the tech stage for the first time

Mangirdas Kazlauskas shared ten tips he wishes he had known before getting on the tech stage for the first time.

📺 Why You Should Stop Building Communities on Slack

Domitrius Clark and Taylor Desseyn talked about the good, the bad, and the ugly of community building and what it looks like to get started and maintain.

📚 CFPs 📚

🍖 DevTalks
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/devtalkscluj-2023
Deadline: August 31, 2023
Location: Cluj Napoca, Romania
Date: September 27, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://www.devtalks.ro/code-of-conduct

🥓 Frontrunners
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/frontrunners2024
Deadline: October 20, 2023
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Date: March 08, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://frontrunners.tech/conduct

🥩 Swiftable
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/swiftable2023
Deadline: September 16, 2023
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: November 30 - December 1, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://www.swiftable.co/code-conduct

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📖 When Do Online Communities Reach 'Critical Mass'?

Tim Post shared some things he's learned to look for after launching over a hundred developer communities.

📖 How we moderate a 30,000+ member Discord server at Autocode

Jacklyn Biggin learned a lot about Discord server moderation over the last two years and shared five best practices to follow when moderating a Discord server.

📖 Make your users happy by keeping it RYL in documentation

Devon Campbell talked about the importance of repeating yourself liberally in documentation.

📖 How to Develop a community team

Deb Schell shared strategies for building a community team.

📖 Mapping the Customer Journey for Developer Products

Haley Massa talked about building customer journeys for developer tools, from understanding why sales and customer success teams push the traditional customer journey to where that breaks down in engaging with more developer-focused audiences.

📖 5 Steps to Authoritative Articles

Joseph Cottrell shared tips for crafting effective technical articles.

📺 From Developer Advocate to Full Time Content Creator

James Q Quick talked about his passion for teaching developers and how that led him to full-time Technical Content Creation.

📖 Why and How to Create Content as a Software Engineer

Eleftheria Batsou shared a guide on creating and sharing technical knowledge for professional growth.

📝 Participate in the Developer Relations Survey for a Manning Book

Tracy Lee is looking for insights that will help her understand and share the current trends, challenges, solutions, and future prospects in DevRel.

📚 CFPs 📚

🦘 DDD Adelaide
CFP: https://sessionize.com/dddadelaide2023
Deadline: September 6, 2023
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Date: November 18, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://dddadelaide.com/code-of-conduct

🧇 Do iOS
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/do-ios-2023
Deadline: August 31, 2023
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Date: November 8-9, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://confcodeofconduct.com/

🐨 GopherConAU
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/gopherconau2023
Deadline: August 20, 2023
Location: Sydney, Australia
Date: November 8-10, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://gophercon.com.au/#coc

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📖 Is Generative AI the Death Knell for Tech Writing

Jennifer Jarnefeldt wrote about her experience working with and using generative AI and her realization of how much it needs people.

📖 2023 State of the API Report

Postman released their fifth State of the API report, collating data from more than 40,000 developers and API professionals that shared their thoughts on development priorities, their API tools, and where they see APIs going.

📺 From Rocks to Code

Tracy Lee interviews Michelle Mannering about the joy of engaging with the vibrant developer community, attending events, and witnessing awe-inspiring projects come to life.

📺 How GitHub scaled developer advocacy

Brian Douglas shared his experience working at GitHub and Netlify, and how they scaled Developer Advocacy.

📖 How we run hackathons inside Discord at Autocode

Jacklyn Biggin share how Autocode run their hackathons inside Discord, and how you can add the tools they built to your Discord server so you can too!

📚 CFPs 📚

🦁 GopherCon Singapore
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/gopherconsg-2023
Deadline: August 14, 2023
Location: Singapore
Date: November 3, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://2023.gophercon.sg/

⚖️ ScalaIO
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/scalaio2023
Deadline: August 27, 2023
Location: Paris, France
Date: October 26-27, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://scala.io/code-of-conduct/

☕️ J-Fall
CFP: https://sessionize.com/jfall23
Deadline: September 1, 2023
Location: Ede, Netherlands
Date: November 9, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://jfall.nl/code-of-conduct/

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📺 From IC to Management in DevRel

Tessa joined Erin and Brian to discuss moving from an individual contributor (IC) to management in developer relations and what makes a successful DevRel team.

📖 Best Practices for Visuals and Multimedia in Documentation

Bradley Nice talked about using visuals to make documentation more accessible, intuitive, and... fun.

📖 Embracing Relevance Over Engagement

Jess Hobbs talked about the underlying foundation that truly makes a community thrive - relevance.

🙋 10th Annual Developer Relations Survey

DevRel.Agency is running its most comprehensive survey yet, in the hopes of helping the entire DevRel community to learn and grow together.

📺 How They Became a Developer Relations Advocate

Phil Nash and Ben Dechrai reflected on the journey that led them to this career and shared some advice for anyone interested in becoming a developer advocate!

📚 CFPs 📚

📚 Write the Docs Australia
CFP: https://pretalx.com/wtd-australia-2023/cfp
Deadline: September 15, 2023
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Date: December 7-8, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://www.writethedocs.org/code-of-conduct/

🐻‍❄️ DevConf
CFP: https://sessionize.com/devconfpl-2023
Deadline: August 20, 2023
Location: Łódź, Poland
Date: November 9-10, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://devconf.pl/coc/

🎡 NDC London
CFP: https://sessionize.com/ndc-london-2024
Deadline: September 1, 2023
Location: London, UK
Date: January 29 - February 2, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://ndclondon.com/code-of-conduct

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📖 How to Boost Diversity and Inclusion in Tech

Rabeb Othmani shared the inspiring story of her career so far and how we can bring more diversity and inclusion to our industry.

📖 Designing APIs for humans

Paul Asjes wrote a series about object IDs, errors, design patterns, and how Stripe approaches API design.

📖 Building relationships with your members one conversation at a time

Deb Schell talked about cultivating an environment for conversations in your community.

📻 Unified documentation hubs versus documentation islands

Christoph Weber and Kristof Van Tomme discussed the nuanced, socio-technical nature of large-scale documentation processes, the need for a central API docs team, and the future use of private LLMs.

📺 Open Standards and Private Products: A DevRel's Dream or Nightmare

Thulie and Valériane discussed the impact of open standards and working with private products as a Developer Relations professional.

📺 Open Source & DevRel

Kelsey Hightower talked about his Incredible experience in Developer Relations and Open Source.

📖 Learning by Example

Danica Fine shared examples of great talk abstracts hoping they'd inspire your next CFP.

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📚 CFPs 📚

🏙️ Atlanta Developers' Conference
CFP: https://sessionize.com/atlanta-developers-conference-2023/
Deadline: July 31, 2023
Location: Marietta, GA, USA
Date: September 9, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://www.atldevcon.com/code-of-conduct

🤖 droidcon London
CFP: https://sessionize.com/droidcon-london-2023
Deadline: August 15, 2023
Location: London, UK
Date: October 26-27, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://london.droidcon.com/code-of-conduct/

💎 RubyConf
CFP: https://sessionize.com/rubyconf-2023
Deadline: August 20, 2023
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Date: November 13-15, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTDRoti3RBCNsGR9yuYsMNRYGY0icmM8-0yMUY2YZ_8LwkSBEkKSTqrcX1UeYzz73jjDuuC2aLmQOTR/pub

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📻 How We Broke DevRel as an Industry

Mia Moore, Ben Greenberg, and Jason Lengstorf talked about what’s working, what’s not working, and how we can move forward to a future where DevRel makes sense.

📖 Selecting Speaking Topics

Alex, Lauren, Sarah E., and Sarah G shared the strategies they employ to identify and select their speaking topics.

📖 Tips for better documentation with OpenAPI

Lorna Mitchell answered a bunch of questions about getting good documentation from an OpenAPI document.

📖 Scaling Developer Content

Karl Hughes talks about the correlation between consistently publishing high-quality technical content and traffic growth.

📖 10 Tips for Creating Quality Developer Documentation

Joanna Suau recaps the ten most essential aspects of what contributes to high-quality developer documentation.

📖 The Developer Voice Guide: How To Write Articles Engineers Want To Read

Adi Polak shared a checklist for writing an article that speaks authentically to engineers and lets you share your know-how.

📖 A Comprehensive DevRel Metrics Guide

Johannes Dienst embarked on a mission to get metrics sorted out for himself, only to discover that it is extremely complicated.

📚 CFPs 📚

☕️ JCON WORLD
CFP: https://sessionize.com/jcon-world-2023
Deadline: July 15, 2023
Location: Online
Date: November 21-24, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://2023.world.jcon.one/code-of-conduct

🟨 JSConf Colombia
CFP: https://sessionize.com/jsconf-colombia-2023
Deadline: July 31, 2023
Location: Medellín, Colombia
Date: November 17-18, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://jsconf.com/codeofconduct.html

🥛 Minnesota Developers Conference
CFP: https://sessionize.com/mdc
Deadline: July 23, 2023
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Date: October 3, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://mndevconf.com/code-of-conduct/

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📖 Want to speak at a conference?

Michelle Mannering shared seven top tips for getting a call for papers accepted.

📻 Change is Good?

Aisha Blake , Chloe Condon , and Mandy Moore , went on the Community Pulse podcast and touched down on a touchy topic - DevRel Job Hopping.

📻 Entertaining and Educating Developers Through Music

Dylan Beattie Dylan Beattie talks about writing parody songs for developers, handling live performances at conferences, and creative ways to incorporate music into developer content and education.

📖 How to build a developer community?

Jana Iris shared her journey into the world of developer communities and the importance of education, empathy, and consistent efforts in building a thriving community.

📺 Which Department Does DevRel Really Belong to?

Trey Botard talks about how tech can solve people’s problems (especially in the workplace), why you should always optimize and see the value in your work, the importance of cleaning up your documentation so users aren’t put off by your product, and which department a DevRel belongs to.

📖 Emceeing at a conference for the first time

Linn Foster shared five tips from her recent experience MC-ing a conference for the first time.

📖 The Secret Behind My Latest Blog Post

Oryan Moshe shared how working iteratively with ChatGPT transformed his content creation process and made it more efficient than ever before.

📖 Share Your Developer Experience Insights

Rain Leander are working on a new book titled “Developer Experience Unleashed”, and looking for contributions for a chapter.

📚 CFPs 📚

🏝️ CodeCampSDQ
CFP: https://sessionize.com/codecampsdq-2023
Deadline: June 30, 2023
Location: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Date: October 21, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://codecampsdq.com/code-of-conduct/

🏗️ Build Stuff Lithuania
CFP: https://www.buildstuff.events/cfp
Deadline: June 16, 2023
Location: Vilnius, Lithuania
Date: November 15-17, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://www.buildstuff.events/code-of-conduct

🍮 NDC Porto
CFP: https://sessionize.com/ndc-porto-2023
Deadline: June 21, 2023
Location: Porto, Portugal
Date: October 16-20, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://ndcporto.com/code-of-conduct

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