The State of Developer Relations 2021 Report - π§βπ»π₯π 146
Developer Avocados π₯ Weekly
πThe State of Developer Relations 2021 Report - re:vere released the 8th State of Developer Relations report this year, showing the continued growth and maturity of Developer Relations as a practice and as a growth strategy for companies.
πContent that developers love - Raphael Mun went on the 'Under the Hood of Developer Marketing' podcast and talked about what happens when your content becomes problematic and instead of solving problems, creates more.
πThe Biggest Community Management Misconceptions - Waves shared some of the biggest misconceptions that developers make about community management and how to avoid them.
πPaving the Golden Path - Justin Murray wrote about using your documentation to showcase the possibilities of your product and how to make it easy for developers to learn about them.
πWhat Happened to your Blog? - Lorna Mitchell wrote about the trouble of most Developer Advocates out there: what happens with your personal blog after you start writing for other blogs.
π¦What is #devrel (wrong answers only)? - Corey Quinn celebrated Matt Stratton's birthday with a strangely accurate Flashdance remix.
π’ A Word From Our Sponsor - draft.dev π’
πStruggling to find technical writers that could help with your content strategy? Karl Hughes shares his team's process of finding technical writers for hire at his company, Draft.dev, including what doesn't work.
π #adventcado of the week π
π₯Salma Alam-Naylor - Salma helps developers build stuff, learn things, and love what they do. With a background in music, teaching, and comedy, and after a career as a front-end developer and lead engineer, she is Netlify's newest Staff Developer Experience Engineer.
πΊUchi Uchibeke - is a Developer and avid Hacker with over 50 Hackathons participated and organized. Currently, he is the Director of Developer Relations at Coil where he is leading Coil's strategy for developer engagement globally.
π₯Jim Seconde - is a writer, speaker, PHP developer, teacher, Dad, failed DJ, and Vonage PHP Developer Advocate. Most importantly, he holds the erroneous belief Birmingham is an 'OK city'. π
π₯Sarah Lean - is an IT Pro turned Cloud Advocate who is passionate about helping others.
π₯Raymond Camden - has been blogging, presenting, writing books, for a very long time. 'Officially' in DevRel off and on the past 10 years or so, but unofficially long before that, currently a developer evangelist for Adobe, working with document services (fun stuff with PDFs).
π»Jeroen Leenarts - is a software developer currently specializing in iOS development who switched tracks to Developer Relations last month.
π₯Liran Tal - is a GitHub Star, worldwide recognized for championing open source software and actively working within communities to inspire and lift other humans, and a Developer Advocate at Snyk.
π₯Justin Garrison - is an engineer turned educator who likes to engage through entertainment.
π CFPs π
πStrapiConf - https://conf.strapi.io/
CFP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfj2clqy7udvebnJl5IwTsvnnW8R1Cq89X8hfRESo5_OMvTCA/viewform
Deadline: December 31, 2021
Location: Online
Date: March 16, 2022
Code of Conduct: https://forum.strapi.io/faq#coc
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