Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly - Issue 52
Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly
📖Speaking At Technical Conferences - Emma Wedekind shared a few of the things she learned during her conference journey, in the hopes it encourages those of you who have wanted to speak at conferences but didn't know where to start.
📖Advice for junior conference speakers - Nicolas Frankel offers some advice and personal tips for people looking to start a public speaking journey without a mentor.
📖Fearless - Nik Knight shares a personal story that stemmed from a simple question: "What would you do if your fear didn’t stop you?".
📖Content Strategy at a Startup - Hannah Kirk shares a case study of turning scattered, messy, startup content into awesome and innovative documentation, an integral part of the strategic direction of the product and user experience.
📖Measuring Success and KPIs in Developer Relations - Tessa Mero curated a community-contributed list that a DevRel team out there may find very helpful, to answer questions like "What do you measure that benefits your team? What do you measure that is valuable to higher-ups? How does this align with company-wide KPIs?".
📖A Day In The Life Of A Writer - Jason C. McDonald shared a day in the life of a writer, based not just on his own career, but on those of many authors one would deem "successful".
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📚 CFPs 📚
🦸♀️JSHeroes - https://jsheroes.io/
CFP: https://jsheroes-form.typeform.com/to/MOoTUM
Deadline: December 20, 2019
Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Date: April 23-24, 2020
Travel & Accommodation: Yes, plus 500 € speaker fee
Code of Conduct: https://jsheroes.io/code-of-conduct
☕️JavaDay Lviv - https://www.javaday.org.ua/
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/java-day-lviv-2020
Deadline: November 10, 2019
Location: Lviv, Ukraine
Date: February 15, 2020
Travel & Accommodation: Yes
Code of Conduct: https://www.javaday.org.ua/code-of-conduct
🏛UI Arch - http://uiarchconf.com/
CFP: http://uiarchconf.com/cfp/
Deadline: November 1, 2019
Location: New Orleans, LA, USA
Date: April 1-3, 2020
Travel & Accommodation: Maybe
Code of Conduct: http://uiarchconf.com/codeofconduct/
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