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Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly
📖When you stare into the blank page, it stares back at you - Heidi Waterhouse wrote about working with an amazing team to write the best book they could on how to do technical writing when you are not a technical writer.
📖Why Tech Companies need A̶f̶r̶i̶c̶a̶n̶s̶ Nigerians as Community Managers. - Jephtah Abu wrote about his experience interviewing for a Community manager role for a remote-first / foreign-based tech company.
📖You Don’t Need Your Own Discord - Sean Bonner wrote about some of the reasons why you shouldn't start a Discord server for your community, but instead open a channel in a shared community.
📺Getting Into Devrel - Jessica Rose hosted an informational session looking at the skills needed in many developer outreach roles and ways to get experience towards this work.
📖Tips to enhance your technical writing - Saharsh Laud shared some of the tips they picked up from the Hashnode Technical Writing Bootcamp.
📖Developer Advocacy - Thad Craft shared the starting point of Kohl's long journey to Developer Nirvana.
📖5 Community Management Tools to Skyrocket Your Engagement - Waves looked at 5 community management tools that can transform your community from an empty group chat to everybody’s favourite online place.
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📚 CFPs 📚
🧞♀️NotPinkCon - https://www.notpinkcon.org/
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/notpinkcon4
Deadline: October 15, 2021
Location: Online
Date: November 20, 2021
Code of Conduct: https://www.notpinkcon.org/codigo_de_conducta.html
🐹Golang Conf - https://golangconf.ru/en/2021
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/golangconf
Deadline: October 15, 2021
Location: Moscow, Russia
Date: December 13-14, 2021
Code of Conduct: https://confcodeofconduct.com/
🪖VisugXL - https://www.visug.be/
CFP: https://sessionize.com/visugxl-2021/
Deadline: October 22, 2021
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Date: November 20, 2021
Code of Conduct: https://www.visug.be/Home/CodeOfConduct
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