Welcome! 👋
Happy last week of April, everyone! It's hard to believe May 1st is this weekend 🤯
With the number of CFPs that are going live and the number of requests that are coming to my team, I can tell there are busy weeks ahead of us. This week is a special one though -- we're hosting our first-ever Camunda Community Summit! A lot of hard work has gone into this event and I'm excited to see it all come to fruition.
What exciting things are you looking forward to in the weeks to come? I'd love to hear!
Best,
Mary (@mary_grace)
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Tidbits 🕔
You Have to Care
twitter.comBuilding a community is not a one-time sale. You don't just "get more members in the room" and consider your job done. You have to really care about your members to build a successful community.
Make Sure You're Here for the Right Reasons
twitter.com🤔 If you're only involved in community building to make money...maybe you're in it for the wrong reasons?
Push < Pull
twitter.comPUSH < PULL when building community.
PUSH: Launch a community and then promote it to as many people as possible, hoping to convert a % into engaged members.
PULL: Build a small core of highly curated and engaged members. That core, like a center of gravity, will draw others in.
Tangibles 🤓
Best Things About Developer Advocacy
If you've ever struggled with describing why you do what you do, you'll want to read this post from Lorna Mitchell. She talks about the creativity, the variety, and (my personal favorite) the multiplying factor.
lornajane.net
Data Strategies for Community Management
Is your community a small world? Or a random grouping of individuals? This can be the difference between a community that thrives, spreading information quickly and building bridges to other community members, and one that is dependent on a single individual or founding team. I'm sure you can guess which one is more sustainable! Katerina Bohle Carbonell talks about the difference between these communities as well as how to analyze the structure of your community.
notion.so
Storytime 📚
DevRel Podcasts and Videos
- Does Onboarding Ever Stop? - The Open Road (video)
- Learning Quick: Streaming is the New Hotness with James Q. Quick - Launchies
- Create Value for Others with Nader Dabit - React Podcast
- Amr Awadallah, VP of Developer Relations at Google Cloud - Digital Native Podcast
- Exploring Developer Advocacy And Developer Relations with Jacquie Grindrod, Jeremy Meiss, Josh Wulf, and Ted Neward - Full Stack Journey
- How to Create a Developer Onboarding Process/Guide for Open Source Projects - Jono Bacon (video)
Events 📆
DevRel Events
From webinars to workshops and conferences, there are events happening all over the world, in a wide variety of timezones! Check out some of those upcoming events in our nifty collection. Know of one or more that I'm missing? Feel free to let me know!
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Jobs 👩💻
Content Manager
LogDNA is looking for a collaborative Content Manager to write and edit content about logging, DevOps, Kubernetes, and more. Not looking for a full-time gig but want to contribute content? Reach out, we’d love to work with you!
greenhouse.io
Community Manager
StackHawk is a developer-first application security company, helping teams automate security testing in CI/CD. The Community Manager will help build our community strategy, including growing the ZAP open source project we are built on top of and engaging with other developer communities. Let's chat more at [email protected]!
stackhawk.com
Developer Advocate
The WordPress project is supported by a vibrant community of volunteers who are passionate about open source technology. We are growing Automattic’s team dedicated to bidirectional advocacy between WordPress Core and the broader WordPress community. Your focus will be communicating with community developers about WordPress, Gutenberg, and the surrounding ecosystem to build positive and sustainable relationships with WordPress developers and reduce barriers to Gutenberg adoption.
greenhouse.io
Jobs 👩💻
Developer Relations Jobs
Check it out! We're always adding new jobs! You never know what you might find in the DevRel Weekly Jobs Collection!
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