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Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly

📖 The Building Blocks of Solid Documentation
Sara Moore talked about improving the transmission of critical knowledge across your organization by applying a set of building blocks to your documentation practices.

📖 Why Developer Advocacy matters...
Mike Elissen shared his three-year journey as a Developer Advocate at Akamai.

📖 Docs user feedback and how to deal with it
Joanna Suau talked about alternatives to adding a GitHub link to your docs as a feedback mechanism.

📖 The Best Practices for Tech Writing
Nebojsa Radakovic summarized an internal talk for developers geared toward writing content.

📖 How to Lint Code and Prose in Documentation
Shahed Nasser covers different methods for linting content with code blocks to ensure it follows your style guide.

📖 Communities, Public Speaking, and Other DevRel Stuff From a Non-DevRel Engineer
Matheus Albuquerque shared what's worked for him in his process of preparing a tech talk.

📖 Guidelines for AI-assisted Articles on DEV
Erin Bensinger shared the guidelines dev.to is planning to implement to keep their community members safe and keep content quality on the site as high as it can be.

📚 CFPs 📚

🐻‍❄️ Kafka Summit London
CFP: https://sessionize.com/kafka-summit-london-2023
Deadline: January 9, 2023
Location: London, UK
Date: May 16-17, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://www.kafka-summit.org/code-of-conduct

🥞 MiXiT
CFP: https://sessionize.com/mixit2023
Deadline: January 10, 2023
Location: Lyon, France
Date: April 13-14, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://mixitconf.org/en/codeofconduct

⚜️ VueConf US
CFP: https://sessionize.com/vueconf-us-2023
Deadline: January 15, 2023
Location: New Orleans, LA, USA
Date: May 24-26, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://vueconf.us/codeofconduct/

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