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Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly
📖Which Department Does DevRel Belong In? - Kim Maida makes a compelling case for why Developer Relations as a discipline should follow the tenets that guide good Developer Marketing.
📺A totally existential podcast about developer relations and the meaning of funemployment - Laka used his funemployment to go on the Community Punks show and talk about success metrics for DevRel activities.
📺DevRel Talks: hiring pipelines - Lusen Mendel and Matthew Revell talked about the hiring issues that DevRel teams are facing in 2021.
📖How to Find a Technical Writer for Hire - Karl Hughes shared the process they used for finding and recruiting about 50 freelance technical writers at Draft.dev.
📖Becoming a conference speaker - Thamara Andrade shared her learnings from speaking at a conference for the first time.
📖Things you should know before you take over an existing community - Nandini Diagarajan wrote about the discovery journey when you are taking over an existing community.
📖Implementing a Docs Like Code Solution - Silvia Alvarado and Alejandra Pedroza wrote about how a group of technical writers at Wizeline got together to learn, experiment with, and implement a Docs Like Code solution.
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🥑Career Advice Edition🥑
📖Is developer relations right for me? - Sean Falconer covers the differences between being a product-based software engineer and an engineer working in DevRel, the pros and cons of it, strong indicators that you might be successful in DevRel, and what the DevRel mindset is.
📖Life as a developer advocate - Navyata Bawa shares her thoughts on what it means to be a Developer Advocate, from the perspective of being a Developer Advocate on the Open Source team at Facebook.
📖Gardening Is A Lot Like Developer Relations - Rod Burns drew parallels between plants, gardening, key members of a developer community and developer relations.
📖How to move up in your org - Christoffer Noring wrote about leveraging yourself and what you do in such a way that you have more impact inside your organization.
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📚 CFPs 📚
🐶SnykCon - https://snyk.io/snykcon/
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Deadline: July 16, 2021
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Date: October 5-7, 2021
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Deadline: July 19, 2021
Location: Online
Date: November 3-4, 2021
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🎢CodeLand - https://codelandconf.com/
CFP: https://cfp.codelandconf.com/events/codeland-2021
Deadline: July 20, 2021
Location: Online
Date: September 23-24, 2021
Code of Conduct: https://codelandconf.com/coc/
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