Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly - Issue 47
Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly
🥑We wanted to give a big shout out to Nguyen Tuong Van for re-creating the Developer Avocado mascot using pure CSS. Thank you!
https://codepen.io/SmokinClove/pen/aboQGzB
📖Are Soft Skills Important in Technical Developer Relations? - Tomomi Imura was interviewed by Dave Nugent about the importance of technical skills in DevRel, how DevRel engineers leverage those skills and how soft skills scale as the company grows.
📖How to Present an Easy-to-Follow Tech Demo - Angie Siu shared some basic steps that should help you develop an outline or framework for your next technical demo.
📖Frequently Asked Questions - Dustin Ingram answers some frequently asked questions about Developer Advocacy.
📖What I do as a Developer Advocate - Dewan Ahmed describes his new role as a Developer Advocate at IBM for the open-source Kabanero project.
📖How to self-check if you work in developer relations - Olle Pridiuksson helps you check if you sometimes work in developer relations, even if nobody told you that.
📖So You Want to Get Into Technical Communication? - Gina Blednyh wrote about the competencies you need to work as a technical communicator at Salesforce, how you can gain those skills and transition into a terrific career.
📖Should you use Medium or dev.to? - David wrote about the pros and cons of writing on Medium and dev.to and came up with a set of recommendations for when to use one over the other.
📖How to build a community around your product? - Solveo shared four effective ways of building communities around your product and creating value.
📖Carbon Neutral - 🎉 DevRel Summit is being held in Singapore again this year and is going carbon neutral! 🎉.
📚 CFPs 📚
🎡DevRelCon London - https://london-2019.devrel.net/
CFP: https://hoopyltd.typeform.com/to/TEY0KC
Deadline: September 30, 2019
Location: London, UK
Date: December 10-11, 2010
Travel & Accommodation: Maybe
Code of Conduct: http://dev-devrelcon-london-2019.pantheonsite.io/code-of-conduct/
🥃PyTennessee - https://2020.pytennessee.org/
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/pytn-2020
Deadline: October 14, 2019
Location: Nashville, TN, USA
Date: March 7-8, 2020
Travel & Accommodation: Maybe
Code of Conduct: https://2020.pytennessee.org/code-of-conduct
🏰ConFrontJS - https://2019.confrontjs.com/
CFP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeutfT7jfYuOCr0ORTWi13JbsufeazPs2C6nAdf9xclsemE-w/viewform
Deadline: September 30, 2019
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Date: December 7, 2019
Travel & Accommodation: Yes
Code of Conduct: https://berlincodeofconduct.org/
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