Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly - Issue 70
Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly
🎓Season of Docs - Google is fostering open-source collaboration with technical writers again this year and announced the 2020 edition of Season of Docs.
📖Video Recording and Live Streaming - Wei Gao documented her journey experimenting with video recording and live streaming options for the RK meetup.
📖Being part of a Program Committee - Feli interviewed Vanessa Böhner about how she became part of the JS Kongress committee and her experience curating the program.
📖The Developer Relations Path - Tessa Mero did an AMA on DEV and talked about her career path from college student to Developer Advocate.
📖Make Sure People Know What You’re Talking About - Jezra Kaye gives you three questions to use as guidelines for structuring your talk when your audience doesn’t know what you’re talking about.
🔈How to Build Your Personal Brand - Mike Pfeiffer caught up with Dan Wahlin and Tim Warner and talked about how to build your personal brand.
📼Building up open-source developer communities - Scott Hanselman talked to Andres Pineda about getting started with open source and how he helped kickstart the .NET user groups in the Dominican Republic.
📖Win the hearts and minds of your developer community - Maarten Volders makes a compelling case that Developer Relations is not just about understanding the needs and goals of your developers but to fundamentally understand the fabrics of their culture.
📖7 Common Content Marketing Mistakes - Stephanie Morillo goes through seven common Content Marketing mistakes developers make and gives you a few options for how to avoid them.
📖Borrowing brilliance - Max Katz shared a quick way to come up with content ideas.
📖Mise en Place Writing - Shawn Wang detailed his writing process, something he calls "Mise en Place Writing".
🦠 Coronavirus Resources 🦠
📼DevRel in the Time of Coronavirus: Jessica West - Jessica West talked to Matthew Revell about DevRel in the time of Coronavirus.
📼DevRel in the Time of Coronavirus: Phil Leggetter - Phil Leggetter talked to Matthew Revell about DevRel in the time of Coronavirus.
📖Running My First Online Meetup - Kevin Lewis shared his experience of organizing an online meetup for the first time.
📖End-to-end guide to a live stream conference in 3 weeks - Sarah Thiam shared a practical end-to-end guide and resources for taking your event online.
📖Tips for Giving Remote Presentations - Raymond Camden reached out to friends and colleagues to get their advice for remote presentations and shared it with the world.
📖Setting up an online conference - Andy Morrell describes the setup that he is using to create a free online conference.
📖Dev Communities & COVID-19 - Elisha Tan has a 4 part series about moving events online, organizing online events and contributing your skills to help with COVID-19 hackathons.
📖Experimenting with Coffee Outside the Coffeeshop - Kyle Welch experimented with virtual coffee chats in an attempt to interact with people.
📖Empathy at Scale - Patrick Woods argues that you don’t need a crisis to practice empathy at scale; the tools and methods you put in place now can benefit your community for years to come.
📚 CFPs 📚
🎙All The Talks - https://www.allthetalks.online/
CFP: https://www.allthetalks.online/speak
Deadline: April 1, 2020
Location: Online
Date: April 15, 2020
Code of Conduct: https://www.allthetalks.online/code-of-conduct
🎬JS VidCon - https://jsvidcon.com/
CFP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhziUY1zUGLT8n0VhSLPiCBnS94-k7518KrAADMqlbbdmiMA/viewform
Deadline: April 10, 2020
Location: Online
Date: May 7, 2020
Code of Conduct: https://jsvidcon.com/index.php/code-of-conduct/
❤️Scala Love Conference - https://scala.love/
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/scalalove
Deadline: April 8, 2020
Location: Online
Date: April 18, 2020
Code of Conduct: https://www.papercall.io/scalalove
This newsletter is brought to you by two developer avocados: Julia & Laka