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Over the past few years, we’ve seen conferences ebb and flow. Some community-run conferences have evolved into new things, new ones have sprouted up while other annual favorites have sadly gone extinct. What goes into a community-led conference? How does someone get involved? Let’s take a look!

Checkouts
Mo McElaney

• Contributor Covenant
• Presented “Digital Discrimination: Cognitive Bias in Machine Learning (and LLMs!)“ at PyData Conf on July 29 - look out for the video!
  
• Speaking at AI for the Rest of Us Conf in London this fall
  
• Ask a Master Gardener Hotline!
  

Matty Stratton

• Hevy - lifting app
• She's a Beast - great program Couch to Barbell; amazing discord for folks/community
• Fallout - the game and the show!
  
• [Devopsdays Chicago CFP](devopsdays.org/chicago) opens Aug 5!

Wesley Faulkner

• You’re Not Listening by Kate Murphy

Jason Hand

• Wild Spaces
• Becoming SRE
• You Have Not Heard Your Favorite Song: How Streaming Changes Music by Glenn McDonald

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Special Guests: Matty Stratton and Mo McElaney.

This conversation follows up on our discussion about the noteworthy changes in Developer Relations over recent years and how many of our friends and colleagues have chosen to leverage their DevRel skills in new and exciting ways.

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Developer Relations has gone through quite a few changes over the last few years. In that vein, some people have found new skills in the ever-evolving world of tech. Along their journey, they moved away from DevRel, but still use those abilities in new ways. So, what is it like when you bounce from DevRel?

Quote: “The message I’m sending to myself: I can’t change the world until I change myself first” - Kendrick Lamar

Checkouts
Taylor Barnett-Torabi

• Range by David Epstein

Matt Broberg

• ADRs or documenting decisions as a thing™ – Any Decision Record (formally Architectural)
• If you’re looking at PM roles, The Product Manager Interview by Lewis C. Lin helped me get my footing

Wesley Faulkner

• How Teams Can Skip the Drama and Embrace Healthy Conflict with Amy Gallo | SXSW 2024

Jason Hand

• DASH - 2024

PJ Hagerty

• Frank Turner’s latest album - Undefeated
• Gary Clark Jr - JPEG RAW
• Geeky Jerseys

Mary Thengvall

• The Humans by Matt Haig
• Contributor Covenant code of conduct - they’re working on v3 of the code of conduct and want feedback on how community builders have implemented CoCs in the past. Take the survey to help out!

Photo by Mantas Hesthaven on Unsplash

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Special Guests: Matt Broberg and Taylor Barnett-Torabi.

Our hosts elaborate on the notion that, apart from speaking engagements, much of the work undertaken by DevRel professionals remains backstage, yet through live streaming, they can learn publicly and involve community members, overcoming concerns and fostering engaging content for community learning.

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With the exception of speaking at conferences, much of what we do as DevRel professionals is behind-the-scenes. However, with live streaming, we’re able to not only learn in public, but bring our community members into the experience.

While this can be intimidating, and lead to questions like “what if I make a mistake?” - or - “What if I don’t know all the answers?” - or - “How do I make sure I come across as knowledgeable while I’m also learning?” it can also be a great way to create engaging content that helps your community learn alongside you.

Checkouts
Laurent Bugnion

• Learn Live - the show I produce for Microsoft
• GalaSoft - my website with my blog, past presentations and future appearances

Darko Mesaros

• AWS Community - Livestreams
• rup12

Wesley Faulkner

• Spyware leak offers ‘first-of-its-kind’ look inside Chinese government hacking efforts

Jason Hand

• “Use Gemini AI to improve productivity while using Datadog” @ Google Next
• Datadog On Data Science

Mary Thengvall

• The Roaring Days of Zora Lily (and everything by Noelle Salazar)
• Timeshifter - app for avoiding jetlag

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Special Guests: Darko Mesaros and Laurent Bugnion.

PJ and Wesley expound on stories of success, what it takes to get to a "win" and reflect on their conversation with Ole and Kevin.

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Sharing success stories can be helpful in finding what the next step is for your Developer Relations and Community team. That one project that just went perfectly; that moment that showed everyone things were moving forward. Today we’ll share the vision, strategy, approach, and bumps along the way and the end result…some stories of wins that will lead us forward.

Checkouts

Kevin Blanco

• Davinci Resolve & Storytelling for DevRel
• Live every week Davinci Resolve & Storytelling for DevRel

Ole Hejlskov

• Post-layoff assistance to find new positions - take it!

Wesley Faulkner

• BioDrop - Heard from Eddie Jaoude
• Tech Industry Mass Layoffs

PJ Hagerty

• Sunny Day Real Estate by Novum Vetus

Artwork photo by Jason Dent

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Special Guests: Kevin Blanco and Ole Hejlskov.

Wesley, PJ, and Jason wrap up their conversation about mentoring as well as being a mentee.

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Part of the road to being better at Developer Relations is applying what we’ve learned and passing that knowledge on to others. Whether you are a direct mentor or leading a team of folks new to DevRel, it’s important to take stock of what we are doing and how we can best serve the people we know with the knowledge we have.

Checkouts

Tessa Kriesel

• DevRel Day in the Life
• Minicow Cross Breeds

Rosie Sherry

• Community Economies: Reframing Wealth Building

Wesley Faulkner

• Why Platformer is leaving Substack

PJ Hagerty

• Kim Jin San - you may have seen his guitar playing all over social media, but he has even more really great music.
• The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner - great book from the author of The Flamethrowers

Jason Hand

• Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification by Gene Kim
• Nvidia GTC Conf
• Datadog On

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Special Guests: Rosie Sherry and Tessa Kriessl.

Our Community Pulse hosts take a look back at 2023 - the episodes, the patterns, and our observations.

Checkouts
PJ Hagerty

• Go see live music and support your local musicians!
• Baldur's Gate 3 deserves to be Game of the Year

Jason Hand

• The Midnight Library
• A Court of Thorns and Roses
• Fourth Wing

Mary Thengvall

• Kindle Unlimited subscription - $11.99/month for unlimited ebooks and audiobooks!

Wesley Faulkner

• Tesla is having issues producing 4680 cells for Cybertruck, sketchy report says | Electrek

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