The Role of DevRel at Google - 🧑‍💻🥑📆 208

Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly

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📻 The Role of DevRel at Google

Richard Seroter and Corey Quinn discuss how Google views the DevRel function and why they feel it’s so critical to communicate expectations for product launches with customers.

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📻 Defining Your Role Before Someone Else Does

Angie Jones, Evan Hamilton, Mary Thengvall, Wesley Faulkner and Jason Hand talk through how to define your role and defend your team against that very real possibility of being tasked with items that don’t belong within your purview.

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📺 Developer Advocacy, Burnout Recovery and Communities

Lian Li and Patrick Akil talked about the impact of developer advocacy, recovering from a burnout and building a community.

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📖 How Technical Writing Taught Me More About Writing Than My English Degree

Tanvi Desai learned that good technical writing is all about serving others.

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📖 Developer eXperience of APIs and Algorithms

Jarkko Moilanen talked about the differences in developer experience between APIs and algorithms.

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📖 10 things I wish I knew before getting on the tech stage for the first time

Mangirdas Kazlauskas shared ten tips he wishes he had known before getting on the tech stage for the first time.

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📺 Why You Should Stop Building Communities on Slack

Domitrius Clark and Taylor Desseyn talked about the good, the bad, and the ugly of community building and what it looks like to get started and maintain.

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📚 CFPs 📚

🍖 DevTalks
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/devtalkscluj-2023
Deadline: August 31, 2023
Location: Cluj Napoca, Romania
Date: September 27, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://www.devtalks.ro/code-of-conduct

🥓 Frontrunners
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/frontrunners2024
Deadline: October 20, 2023
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Date: March 08, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://frontrunners.tech/conduct

🥩 Swiftable
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/swiftable2023
Deadline: September 16, 2023
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: November 30 - December 1, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://www.swiftable.co/code-conduct

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