DevRelCon Earth 2020

Starting from scratch with metrics can feel overwhelming. Jason shares practical insights from his journey, highlighting how to build foundational reports and gather early insights to track DevRel efforts effectively.

Taiji discusses the unique challenges of localizing developer websites for Japanese audiences, emphasizing the balance between machine and human translation, and the need for culturally relevant content.

Before the pandemic, meet-ups were a core part of the dev rel playbook.

DevRel is about building relationships with developers.

Travel has typically been a big part of developer relations.

Sarah shares the importance of empathy for DevRel.

The open source model might appear to some companies to be a quick and low cost route to awareness and adoption.

Principles for influencing your company’s culture, communication, and collaboration

How should we serve non-developers when building developer portals, documentation, and other aspects of developer experience?.

Laurent argues that we need to reconsider what we mean by developer relations.

Skills and practices from hospitality can help you be a better Dev Advocate or Community Manager

The Linux Foundation's John Mertic shares his personal experiences in open source communities, as well as in his own family, of understanding diversity and inclusive spaces.

Erin introduces five things you can do to model good documentation practice for your community and grow a culture of documentation among developers.

A framework to create community programs that intertwine with your teams’ responsibilities.

What happens when you're running a well loved ticketing service and a pandemic disrupts the events that pay the bills?

GitHub Developer Community Manager Michelle Mannering looks at the future of work and what it means when building a team.

How do you get a job in developer relations, developer marketing, developer experience, or developer community?.

What do you need to get started and how could you use streaming as part of your dev rel programme?

Aman shares the ways that he discovered, learned, and continues to practice to become better at public speaking, presentation deck making, and delivering talks.

Indeed's Alison Yu talks through the techniques they employed to increase participations and what they learned as a result.

Moesif CEO Derric Gilling argues that marketing to developers is hard.

Examples of how real companies use data to calculate the love and reach for their communities and use that data to prioritize DevRel efforts.

Alexandra describes a scalable onboarding process for bringing on one new engineer or fifty to your project.

How "technical" do you need to be to work in developer relations?.

Learn how three developer marketing campaigns were improved through analysis of quantitative and qualitative metrics.

What happens when a key component of an enterprise solution is also a community open source project with a life of its own?.

How to lend privilege to fellow technologists, including credibility lending, access lending, and expertise lending.

Benjamin shares how his team not only survived but thrived during an intense growth spike, including what worked, what failed, and the biggest lessons they learned.

Wataru Yamazaki shares examples of failure and success in building a developer community.

Charles Pretzer offers advice to people looking to start a career in developer relations as well as current practitioners who are looking to advance their practice.

Austin Parker talks about the origins of Deserted Island DevOps and a few lessons learned about what community and events can mean going forward.

Noriaki Fukuyasu shares his advice on how non native English speaking communities can help to make localisation fun and productive.

TiDB is a NewSQL database that has contributors (430+ and growing) from all over the world.

If a developer says that our product has increased their productivity, should we take their word for it?

Creating an inspiring and beneficial journey for developers who engage with your product is essential for a smooth onboarding.

As part of DevRelCon Earth 2020, Bitergia's Ana Jiminez Santamaria, Orbit's Josh Dzielak, and Phil "AAARRRP" Leggetter got together to discuss their approaches to measuring developer relations.

Neo4j's Lju Lazarevic describes how she and her colleagues created an immersive and rewarding online event when the global pandemic affected their plans for an in-person event.

Choosing the right metrics to measure and prove the value of DevRel isn’t always an easy thing to do.

Amelia draws on her pre-DevRel life as opera singer, film and television actor, performance artist, and Vanderbilt New Media Art and Performance professor, to offer her advice on how to enhance your performance in front of an audience

Google's Ray and James argue that developer experience (DX) is 100% about developer productivity and can be measured in terms of value and time.

April Speight argues that developer advocates have an unspoken responsibility to raise awareness and share credible information in discourse around social causes.

Community organizing is the work of societal transformation through key strategic principles and actions.

Once you've defined your dev rel team's KPIs, how can you keep track of your progress?

Denis argues that writing technical articles is one of the few marketing strategies that really adds up over time.

What works in one country doesn't always work in another country.

Kevin Lewis has run multiple online events and here shares his experience of different platforms as well as tips on how to pull it off.

Amara Graham describes the use of narratives before, during, and after events to get a complete picture of dev rel event success.

Manikantan gives the 30,000ft view of how western DevRel teams could better serve developers in Asia.

Daniel covers how companies and their advocates can have a more authentic and genuine impact in low resource regions.

Melissa and Adam discuss concrete examples of how to measure: 1) evangelist/advocate engagement with developers 2) composite measures of Open Source project health and 3) program impact estimations using synthetic control groups.

How does developer relations apply to people who don't think of themselves as developers? As APIs become available to people who are less technical than traditional developers, Joyce Lin looks at what this means for dev rel.

The definition of support is to serve as a foundation for, to sustain without giving way, to undergo or endure, especially with patience.

We all (well almost all of us) love events.

Twilio's Daizen Ikehara shares how he has built developer tutorials using games and how he has used them to build awareness in Japan.

After five months of working as a developer advocate, Ekene Eze began to question some of the typical ways that DevRel teams measure their success.

Felipe Hoffa introduces how he uses public data sets and the ways that they help him to be more effective.

Borrowing from Voice of the Customer, the DevRel team at Asana created Voice of the Developer (VoD).

Social media can be a useful channel for building awareness and influence in DevRel.

The chances are that most people attempting to code with your SDK will hit at least one error message. Yoz Grahame shares how you can make your errors even more helpful to new developers than having you sitting next to them.