Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly - Issue 81
Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly
📖How many developers are there? - SlashData made a subset of their Q4 data available for free, so now you can add pretty graphs to your presentations when you talk about developer demographics.
📖On Becoming a (Bilingual) Public Speaker - Paola Mariselli shared a few useful tips for those wanting to tackle new speaking challenges, especially if English is your second language.
📖Developer Evangelists - Yashovardhan Agrawal looks at how an ideal Developer Evangelist job might look like.
📖How to Get a Job in Technical Writing Mid-Career - Jennifer Brown offers a hot take for changing your career into the world of technical writing.
📻Unintentional Gatekeeping - Brian Douglas talked to Patrick Woods about the developer advocate role, leveraging open source knowledge, and improving inclusivity within communities.
📖Scaling a Data-Driven DevRel Team - Brian Munz shared his thoughts on the benefits of community, the perils of managing a DevRel team across departments, and his advice for anyone spinning up a DevRel team today.
📖How to Present Well at a Virtual Conference - Paula Rizzo shared a few quick tips about presenting online, from what to wear on camera to how to convey your message as succinctly as possible.
📖5 Lessons Learned from Delivering Almost 50 Online Webinars - Avery Swartz studies what makes webinars bad, so we can learn how to make them better.
📖Better video and audio from home - Sebastiano Poggi does a thorough job of comparing the different pros and cons of various live streaming setups.
📖Before Starting a Technical Blog - Karl L Hughes shared 3 questions you should ask before starting a technical blog.
📚 CFPs 📚
🌺DevRel/Asia - https://devrel.dev/asia-2020/
CFP: https://devrel.dev/asia-2020/cfp/
Deadline: August 15, 2020
Location: Online
Date: November 14, 2020
Code of Conduct: https://devrel.dev/asia-2020/code-of-conduct.html
🦁GeekcampSG - https://geekcamp.sg/
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/geekcamppsg2020
Deadline: August 21, 2020
Location: Online
Date: September 19-20, 2020
Code of Conduct: https://geekcamp.sg/#coc
🗼Node-RED Con Tokyo - https://nodered.jp/noderedcon2020/
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/noderedcon2020
Deadline: August 31, 2020
Location: Online
Date: October 10, 2020
Code of Conduct: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/about/code-of-conduct/
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