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Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly
📖 When Do Online Communities Reach 'Critical Mass'?
Tim Post shared some things he's learned to look for after launching over a hundred developer communities.
📖 How we moderate a 30,000+ member Discord server at Autocode
Jacklyn Biggin learned a lot about Discord server moderation over the last two years and shared five best practices to follow when moderating a Discord server.
📖 Make your users happy by keeping it RYL in documentation
Devon Campbell talked about the importance of repeating yourself liberally in documentation.
📖 How to Develop a community team
Deb Schell shared strategies for building a community team.
📖 Mapping the Customer Journey for Developer Products
Haley Massa talked about building customer journeys for developer tools, from understanding why sales and customer success teams push the traditional customer journey to where that breaks down in engaging with more developer-focused audiences.
📖 5 Steps to Authoritative Articles
Joseph Cottrell shared tips for crafting effective technical articles.
📺 From Developer Advocate to Full Time Content Creator
James Q Quick talked about his passion for teaching developers and how that led him to full-time Technical Content Creation.
📖 Why and How to Create Content as a Software Engineer
Eleftheria Batsou shared a guide on creating and sharing technical knowledge for professional growth.
📝 Participate in the Developer Relations Survey for a Manning Book
Tracy Lee is looking for insights that will help her understand and share the current trends, challenges, solutions, and future prospects in DevRel.
📚 CFPs 📚
🦘 DDD Adelaide
CFP: https://sessionize.com/dddadelaide2023
Deadline: September 6, 2023
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Date: November 18, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://dddadelaide.com/code-of-conduct
🧇 Do iOS
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/do-ios-2023
Deadline: August 31, 2023
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Date: November 8-9, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://confcodeofconduct.com/
🐨 GopherConAU
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/gopherconau2023
Deadline: August 20, 2023
Location: Sydney, Australia
Date: November 8-10, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://gophercon.com.au/#coc
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