DevRelCon London 2019

10 December 2019 to 11 December 2019

QEII Centre, London, UK

The fifth edition of DevRelCon London took place towards the end of 2019 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in the heart of Westminster, London. Over two days, people from across the world gather to hear talks, take part in the unconference sessions, sing karaoke, and meet one another. Speakers included Google’s Uttam Triapthi, Facebook’s Elisha Tan, Help Scout’s Anjuan Simmons, and Camunda’s Mary Thengvall.

Talks from DevRelCon London 2019

A11y pal(ly)- crafting universally good docs

A11y pal(ly)- crafting universally good docs

In this talk from DevRelCon London 2019, Google's Sangeetha Alagappan talks through making your docs inclusive, what accessibility means in the context of documentation, and common pitfalls you might encounter.

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Approaching DevRel as an educator

Approaching DevRel as an educator

Developer relations is as much an educational pursuit as it is technical.

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Commit messages vs. release notes: they’re important, they’re not the same, and they’re not for you

Commit messages vs. release notes: they’re important, they’re not the same, and they’re not for you

In this session from DevRelCon London 2019, Eva Parish explains the different purposes of commit messages and release notes, and how you can optimise each for better communication with developers and end users.

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Communities aren't funnels

Communities aren't funnels

In this session from DevRelCon London 2019, Josh Dzielak introduces the orbit model, an alternative way of thinking about developer roles within communities.

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Communities of practice: crafting the brand

Communities of practice: crafting the brand

In this session from DevRelCon London 2019, Alex Radu of JP MOrgan Chase looks at how holistic brand management in your communities can have a big effect on their success and longevity.

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Design thinking methodology: How do you design programs for diversity?

Design thinking methodology: How do you design programs for diversity?

How to apply design thinking to creating developer programmes.

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DevRel and enterprise: When developers are not buyers

DevRel and enterprise: When developers are not buyers

In this talk from DevRelCon London 2019, Shy Ruparel talks about the challenges practising dev rel in a company whose customers are larger enterprises, the experiments to address enterprise developers, and the metrics that help keep his CFO happy.

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Developers love webhooks, you should too

Developers love webhooks, you should too

Typeform's Nicolas Grenie makes the case that webhooks should be a central piece of an API strategy.

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Docs as engineering: an intro to developer experience engineering

Docs as engineering: an intro to developer experience engineering

Cristiano shares the practicalities of how Box have taken an engineering approach to their API documentation.

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Documentation tooling: the open source way

Documentation tooling: the open source way

Ankit shares how Red Hat and Mozilla tool their documentation and automate it to make the lives of writers easier.

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Dogfooding developer products: gathering insights from internal hackathons

Dogfooding developer products: gathering insights from internal hackathons

Josh shares Spotify's experience of using internal hackathons to learn about the APIs they've developed.

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Don't ship your community without C.A.R.G.O.

Don't ship your community without C.A.R.G.O.

A framework for success for anyone looking to create a community.

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Empathy for the developer: making 22 year olds love 26 year old software

Empathy for the developer: making 22 year olds love 26 year old software

Olja shares her experience of bringing older software to new audiences.

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Engaging 9 year-old software developers

Engaging 9 year-old software developers

The importance of play in developer education.

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Modernizing Red Hat’s enterprise developer program

Modernizing Red Hat’s enterprise developer program

How Red Hat brought together their developer materials out of silos and into a single experience.

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From start-up to enterprise

From start-up to enterprise

Phil draws on his experience from working in a seven-person startup through to a two and a half thousand person enterprise.

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Get executive buy-in ... or else

Get executive buy-in ... or else

The importance to any developer relations programme of having the support and commitment of the company's leadership.

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GitHub is your documentation landing page

GitHub is your documentation landing page

Your README is the first opportunity you have to communicate with people when visit your GitHub repo.

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Green developer relations

Green developer relations

How to measure the environmental impact of DevRel activities.

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How to capture community relationships

How to capture community relationships

How to track community metrics without crossing the line into creepiness.

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How to get the most from running hackathons

How to get the most from running hackathons

Veteran hackathon organiser Kevin Lewis shares his recommendations on how to get the most from them.

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How to rock a technical keynote

How to rock a technical keynote

Avery Rosen shares practical tips for pulling off a keynote people will talk about.

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How to scale a developer relations team

How to scale a developer relations team

Practical advice on how to scale a developer relations team to meet your programme's growing needs.

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Solving internal technical documentation at Spotify

Solving internal technical documentation at Spotify

Gary Niemen shares how Spotify's approach to documentation has changed.

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I messed up and I'm going to get fired

I messed up and I'm going to get fired

David G Simmons shares the reality, including potential upsides, of making mistakes.

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Inspiring and empowering users to become great writers, and why that's important

Inspiring and empowering users to become great writers, and why that's important

Jo Cook talks about The Good Docs Project and Google's Season of Docs.

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Lessons learned creating an inclusive space in a decades old community

Lessons learned creating an inclusive space in a decades old community

Sy Brand provides insight into the issues faced in making a decades old language community into a more inclusive space, with concrete advice you can apply to your own communities.

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Lessons learned from a regional developer relations journey

Lessons learned from a regional developer relations journey

Salesforce's Peter Chittum shares how their EMEA developer relations programme has served the needs of developers, and other technologists, in their region while forming part of their global programme.

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Managing the burnout burndown

Managing the burnout burndown

What can we do to recognise and avoid burnout before it's too late? Anjuan Simmons shares practical advice.

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Measuring dev rel programs far beyond marketing activities

Measuring dev rel programs far beyond marketing activities

Ana shares metrics and KPIs for dev rel programs that focus on developer engagement, developer acquisition, and developer satisfaction.

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Mental health and wellbeing in online communities

Mental health and wellbeing in online communities

Examining some of the main challenges faced by community managers, and consider the impact 'technostress' has on the wellbeing of both the community manager and the community members

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Mentored sprints for diverse beginners

Mentored sprints for diverse beginners

Tania Allard describes how she has helped a diverse group of people get their start with open source through mentored events at conferences.

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Open Source is broken

Open Source is broken

Don invites us to think more deeply about the assumptions of the open source model and whether we should consider other models for building software collaboratively and creating inclusive communities.

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Planning your dev rel career

Planning your dev rel career

Jessica hsares practical advice on how to plan and manage your own DevRel career.

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Scaling adoption with developer targeted video content

Scaling adoption with developer targeted video content

The team at Unity have made video central to how they drive adoption amongst developers.

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The art of story design

The art of story design

In this session from DevRelCon London 2019, Melinda Seckington completes her three-part series on how to create great developer communications.

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The grand unifying dev rel theory

The grand unifying dev rel theory

Steve argues that we need to become more intentional in choosing the models that we use to explain DevRel.

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Thoughtful Tech: How Far Does Your Ethical Responsibility Stretch?

Thoughtful Tech: How Far Does Your Ethical Responsibility Stretch?

Caroline Lewko dicsusses setting values and culture in organisations, and Adelina Chalmers provides practical examples of how developers can influence upstream.

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Ultimate cheat codes for healthier travel

Ultimate cheat codes for healthier travel

How packing cubes and hydration tricks can make your travels smoother and more comfortable.

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Using external events to bolster internal community building

Using external events to bolster internal community building

How participating in events such as Hacktoberfest and All Things Open has helped Indeed's Open Source Programs Office.

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Who? Where? Why? Using data to understand your audience

Who? Where? Why? Using data to understand your audience

How can you use data to better understand your developer audience and inform your developer relations strategy?

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