Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly - Issue 49
Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly
📖Toward carbon neutral Developer Relations - Bear Douglas shared the practical plans for a carbon-neutral 2020 in the Slack DevRel team. A lot of companies are cleaning up their DevRel travel, but we've still got a lot to do. Bear makes a call to action to discuss what we have going and what changes we can make together!
📖How to ace the toughest public speaking challenges - Cassie Kozyrkov shared a guide to surviving interviews, AMAs, fireside chats, podcasts, and audience Q&As.
📖Why GatsbyJS' corporate success is really about the individual developer experience - Matt Asay takes a look at the things that made GatsbyJS a success: fantastic documentation, high performance, a lovely developer experience, and a robust community.
📖How to use DEV for DEVeloper relations - Josh Dzielak wrote a guide that walks you through the benefits of being on DEV, how to get started, and how to make the most of your presence.
📖Learning to Write with Confidence - Steph Smith shared this piece to sway the self-conscious writer inside each one of us, in the hopes of encouraging others to develop a practice that enables them to write with confidence.
📖Designing for Devs at Auth0 - Megan Gleason talks about the way Auth0 looks at Developer Experience, through a particular lens: modalities.
📢 A Word from Our Sponsor - SlashData 📢
📔The essential guide to dev marketing + relations is bigger, richer, better - The 5-star book (Amazon reviews) has a new 2nd edition. It now has 17 chapters, new DevRel content and is full of success & failure stories from the largest tech companies.
📚 CFPs 📚
🧂ng-conf - https://www.ng-conf.org/
CFP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdpxUtdSJkkWwoKTRPCeXd2LWBbNsawV35mqek5LkeTNqPNkA/viewform
Deadline: January 3, 2020
Location: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Date: April 1-3, 2020
Travel & Accommodation: Yes
Code of Conduct: https://www.ng-conf.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/coc4-19.jpg
🎣Lead Dev New York - https://newyork2020.theleaddeveloper.com/
CFP: https://leaddev.submittable.com/submit
Deadline: October 28, 2019
Location: New York, NY, USA
Date: April 7–8, 2020
Travel & Accommodation: Yes, plus 500$ honorarium
Code of Conduct: https://newyork2020.theleaddeveloper.com/code-of-conduct
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