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.
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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Developer relations is as much an educational pursuit as it is technical.
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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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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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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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How to apply design thinking to creating developer programmes.
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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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Typeform's Nicolas Grenie makes the case that webhooks should be a central piece of an API strategy.
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Cristiano shares the practicalities of how Box have taken an engineering approach to their API documentation.
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Ankit shares how Red Hat and Mozilla tool their documentation and automate it to make the lives of writers easier.
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Josh shares Spotify's experience of using internal hackathons to learn about the APIs they've developed.
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A framework for success for anyone looking to create a community.
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Olja shares her experience of bringing older software to new audiences.
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The importance of play in developer education.
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How Red Hat brought together their developer materials out of silos and into a single experience.
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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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The importance to any developer relations programme of having the support and commitment of the company's leadership.
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Your README is the first opportunity you have to communicate with people when visit your GitHub repo.
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How to measure the environmental impact of DevRel activities.
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How to track community metrics without crossing the line into creepiness.
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Veteran hackathon organiser Kevin Lewis shares his recommendations on how to get the most from them.
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Avery Rosen shares practical tips for pulling off a keynote people will talk about.
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Practical advice on how to scale a developer relations team to meet your programme's growing needs.
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Gary Niemen shares how Spotify's approach to documentation has changed.
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David G Simmons shares the reality, including potential upsides, of making mistakes.
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Jo Cook talks about The Good Docs Project and Google's Season of Docs.
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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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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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What can we do to recognise and avoid burnout before it's too late? Anjuan Simmons shares practical advice.
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Ana shares metrics and KPIs for dev rel programs that focus on developer engagement, developer acquisition, and developer satisfaction.
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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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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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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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Jessica hsares practical advice on how to plan and manage your own DevRel career.
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The team at Unity have made video central to how they drive adoption amongst developers.
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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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Steve argues that we need to become more intentional in choosing the models that we use to explain DevRel.
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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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How packing cubes and hydration tricks can make your travels smoother and more comfortable.
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How participating in events such as Hacktoberfest and All Things Open has helped Indeed's Open Source Programs Office.
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How can you use data to better understand your developer audience and inform your developer relations strategy?
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