Dancing Engineer. Fierce Woman.
The Google Open Source Programs office is funding THIRTY places for people from under-represented groups to attend DevRelCon London 2019.
You can apply for one of those tickets here.
Continue reading “DevRelCon London Diversity Opportunities”
You’ve arrived at a crossroads. Do you turn left or right? Just like the classic “Choose Your Own Adventure” books, in this talk, the audience will decide which path to take through the jungle of common DevRel pitfalls and labyrinths, led by their experienced tour guides: Jeremy Meiss, Mary Thengvall, and yours truly!
Kicking off DevRelCon London’s Unconference, this talk offers an opportunity for audience members to choose the topics of discussion – letting attendees and online guests guide the presentation. The topics will include a round-up of the most popular DevRel questions of the day, addressing everything from metrics to org charts to budget. The conversation will be led by a trio of DevRel professionals who have 40+ years of combined experience.
Continue reading “Common Pitfalls & Labyrinths: A DevRel Choose Your Own Adventure”
A replacement plan is a great resource, even when you’re not being replaced.
A year ago, as the role of OpenStack community manager at Red Hat was moving from one person to another, we started thinking about what needs to be in place to effectively transition a role. More generally, we started thinking about planning, and documenting, for your eventual replacement.
We’ll talk about what worked, what didn’t, and what had unexpected benefits for the larger community.
This presentation helps existing and new community managers take a hard look at their roles within their projects to delegate tasks, encourage future advocates, and facilitate the evolution of their community role.
That is the abstract from DevRelCon London 2018 – and I’m totally SQUEE that it was recorded / transcribed / published in this month’s DevRel Newsletter.
Here are my absolute favorite quotes along with some of my fav images used during the actual talk.
Continue reading “Passing The Torch Without Dropping The Ball”
I know what you’re thinking right now.
“It’s been umpteen weeks since you’ve written on this blog and THIS is what you’re going to write about?!?”
Yes, I totally used quotes because THAT is EXACTLY what you’re thinking.
Yeah, that’s right, THIS is what I’m writing about – so sit back, buck up, and get ready for a totally bumpy ride.
First, let’s focus on the AUDIENCE
1. Where do they work?
2. What languages do they use?
3. How how much experience do they have?
4. Do they tinker on nights / weekends or only at work?
Do you have multiple audiences what are the differences?
Starting with the last question, just to be contrarian, I…. wait. No, my brain just melted off. Because am I answering this question as a Red Hat employee? As an IBM employee? As the RDO Community Manager? As the OpenStack Liaison? Or as Rain the Dancing Engineer Fierce Woman?
When I talked with Adam about my melting brain he suggested focusing on the similarities among them to find the buckets OR to go ahead and entirely separate out personal from professional.
But this is being published HERE; therefore, my audience on groningenrain.nl is: