Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly - Issue 45
Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly
📖One Year in Cloud Developer Relations - Megan O'Keefe shared four lessons she's learned in the past year, while helping users adopt technologies like Istio, moving across the country (twice), speaking at multiple conferences, turning twenty-five, and becoming her team’s tech lead.
📖The Path to Developer Relations - Mary Thengvall asked people on Twitter how they started in the industry and looked at the patterns that emerged.
📖My 52 Week Streak - Helen Anderson shares "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly" of setting herself a challenge to contribute at least one QUALITY post to dev.to each week for a year.
📖What does tech leadership really mean? - Mandy Michael talks about industry and community leaders, and how to be a better leader.
📖What the Movie Mean Girls Taught us About Building Developer Communities 💁🏽 - Alex Avritch came up with a set of recommendations for managing your developer community based on "Mean Girls".
🔈The Anatomy of Developer Advocacy - Matt Broberg went on the "Screaming in the Cloud" podcast with Corey Quinn to talk about the internals of Developer Relations.
📖How I Use Trello To Manage My Blog - Brittany Gervin shared her process of using Trello to manage her blog.
📖From FOMO to JOMO - Anne-Laure Le Cunff talks about the joy of missing out, mental health, and avoiding the fear of missing out.
📖The Give and Get of Your Community - Jenna Pederson talks about 5 things you can give to your community and 6 things you get out of it.
🐦A day in the life of a Developer Avocado - Laka had a slightly sarcastic Twitter thread going over the weekend, showing a day in the life of a Developer Advocate while staffing a sponsored booth at a conference, and talked about the motivation behind being a Developer Avocado.
📚 CFPs 📚
🍎iOS Conf Singapore - https://www.iosconf.sg/
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/iosconfsg2020
Deadline: September 15, 2019
Location: Singapore
Date: January 15-18, 2020
Travel & Accommodation: Hotel only
Code of Conduct: https://www.iosconf.sg/cod/
🥜PHP UK - https://www.phpconference.co.uk/
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/phpuk2020
Deadline: October 15, 2019
Location: London, UK
Date: February 19-21, 2020
Travel & Accommodation: Yes
Code of Conduct: https://www.phpconference.co.uk/conduct/
🍉VueConfUS - http://vueconf.us/
CFP: http://vueconf.us/call-for-papers/
Deadline: October 15, 2019
Location: Austin, TX, USA
Date: March 2-4, 2020
Travel & Accommodation: Yes
Code of Conduct: http://vueconf.us/codeofconduct
This newsletter is brought to you by two developer avocados: Julia & Laka