Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly - Issue 85
Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly
📖Responsible Design for Digital Communities - Caroline Sinders crafted a tool kit and website to bring together emergent best practices, workflows, and tools that communities, educators, mutual aid groups, designers, artists and activists are using for community building.
📻From web comics to React core - Rachel Nabors talked about her journey, going from a manga punk Drupal site to herding the cats of the React community.
📖Developer Exception Engineering - Shawn Wang had some “real talk” around what people are calling Developer Experience at developer-focused companies.
📖The role of Community in my Journey - Lakshmi Ramaseshan shared her story about community, purpose and inspiration.
📖Using your status as a speaker to promote others - Andy Budd wrote about the privilege of being invited to speak at a conference and using that privilege to benefit others.
📻Community Contribution and Mentoring Junior Devs - Michael Cheng talked about finding people who are like-minded, who share the same ideals and goals and helping them come together.
📖Why I Left a Career as a Startup CTO to Become a Writer - Karl L Hughes left a career as a startup CTO to become a technical writer, creating what he calls a “corner store” of our generation.
📖Real People Don’t Use UTM Codes - Felipe Hoffa wrote about the reasons you'll want to ditch UTM links and link shorteners if your goal is to engage in authentic human-to-human conversations.
📖You should speak at a conference this year - Nočnica Fee offers help and encouragement for first-time conference speakers in preparation for Nerd Days 1.0.
📚 CFPs 📚
💎RubyConf - https://rubyconf.org/
CFP: https://cfp.rubycentral.org/events/rubyconf2020
Deadline: August 27, 2020
Location: Online
Date: November 17-19, 2020
Code of Conduct: https://rubyconf.org/policies
🍫WeAreDevelopers Live Week - https://www.wearedevelopers.com/live
CFP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdoA3nsXKLJL_wPbmL5d8ev3zqiXWxGAny635o_OzeqJkDTA/viewform
Deadline: August 30, 2020
Location: Online
Date: October 5-9, 2020
Code of Conduct: https://www.wearedevelopers.com/about/legal/code-of-conduct/
🌍DevFest South Africa 2020 - https://devfest.co.za/
CFP: https://sessionize.com/devfest-south-africa-2020/
Deadline: August 31, 2020
Location: Online
Date: October 16-17, 2020
Code of Conduct: https://devfest.co.za/coc
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