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Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly
🎄The Avocados are working on another advent calendar this year. We’d like to interview some of you, and we’ll be asking 5 DevRel related questions. We’ll publish those interviews every day in the run-up to Christmas. We'd love to have you be part of this project. Please fill out the form if you’d be interested to be interviewed this year! https://developeravocados.typeform.com/to/xl1DBmrV
📖Why You Should Get Good at Events - Shawn Wang wrote about how open source companies can take a leaf from the Apple book to understand how to shape an event, galvanize the community, and become a launching pad.
📖How Do You Become a Developer Advocate? - Rizel Scarlett wrote about how past professional experiences helped develop relevant skills needed to work as a Developer Advocate.
📖How to create a documentation site from scratch - José A. Blanco wrote about the many challenges that arise when building a top-class documentation portal.
📖From SysAdmin To Developer Relations - Sarah Lean shared some practical advice that might help people who want to help build and develop relationships with users, and ensure their voice is heard make the transition into DevRel.
📖How to Build a Community So You’ll Never Run Out Of Business - Ritika Mehta shared tips to stand out, bring value and build connections in the hopes it will make your community members stick around.
📢 A Word From Our Sponsor - draft.dev 📢
🎉How to write better technical content: Karl Hughes has been writing online since 2010 and shares his tips on how to improve.
📺 Video Edition 📺
📺Work Week in the Life of a Developer Advocate - Nicole van der Hoeven documented a workweek in the life of a developer advocate at k6, offering a Behind The Scenes view for developer advocates creating videos, blog posts, presentations, and code.
📺Developer Experience, DevRel, Jamstack, JavaScript, and more! - Jason Lengstorf did an AMA session on 'Learn with Jason' about Developer Experience, DevRel, and the path to seniority.
📺Developer Relations: The Book - Caroline Lewko & James Parton went on the CMX Book Club to talk about their new book.
📺How & where to engage with developers - SlashData & Stack Overflow talked about developer communities, sharing the latest available insights from their global surveys.
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📚 CFPs 📚
🖼DevOpsDays Aarhus - https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-aarhus/welcome/
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/devopsdaysaarhus-2022
Deadline: November 12, 2021
Location: Aarhus, Denmark
Date: January 25-26, 2022
Code of Conduct: https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-aarhus/conduct
🐼Conf42.com: Python - https://www.conf42.com/python2022
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/conf42-python-2022
Deadline: November 28, 2021
Location: Online
Date: January 27, 2022
Code of Conduct: https://www.conf42.com/code-of-conduct
This newsletter is brought to you by two developer avocados: Julia & Laka.