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πŸ“š Books

πŸ“Š Related - presentation skills reading


πŸ“° Communities / Newsletters / Resources


πŸ“ Classic blog posts

All the bases

What is it?

πŸ”₯ On self-care and burnout


πŸ”§ Useful tools

  • There's an excellent list of tools on the DevRelCollective Awesome DevRel page. i.e. I'm outsourcing this part of the doc... I may add things I think of myself in the future

πŸ“„ Twitter lists of interesting people and resources

(note: I no longer recommend the use of Twitter and I no longer use it myself)

I did not build these lists myself, but I've been added to some... here are a few examples, in no particular order. An interesting project might be to aggregate / de-duplicate the list memberships.


πŸ“£ My related content


🎲 Fun


πŸ₯‘ Advocate or Evangelist?

I am #TeamAdvocate πŸ˜‰

Notes for this presentation

Slide 1: A LIFE LESS ORDINARY?

Presenter Notes:

Who remembers this movie from the 1990s? (kickass theme song by Ash)

Developer / Technical / Product - Advocacy / Evangelism? we've debated these things in this group before.

Slide 2: MY Journey

Presenter Notes:

This talk is going to very much be a personal story and some thoughts about what I do.

As I've thought about this, I look at where I've come from, where I've been and where I am in a few stages.

You can expect a lot of personal history - and honesty - from the next 20-30 minutes.

Slide 3: Walking

Presenter Notes:

I started out as a hobbyist developer

I was online in the days of dial-up, I taught myself Linux and learned from the community.

In the late 90s I was helping out on various open source projects on SourceForge (Anjuta, OpenUT)

It was natural to me to learn from others and share what I had learned.

I was working at the UK Post Office at the time.

Slide 4: finding

Presenter Notes:

In 2001 I joined IBM in the UK

I was told not to be out in the community. IBM wasn't keen for me to be involved in Open Source at the time.

Consulting.

IBM very good at selling to business; not so good with dev community.

Frustrating! So after several years - 7! - I started to focus on what was needed to 'win over' developers and have a grassroots focus. I pushed MQTT as a community thing.

An advocate / evangelist but not a formal role.

Slide 5: LEADING

Presenter Notes:

In 2012 after 10? years I left IBM.

I was invited to join a new Dev Relations team at VMware, to do a new Open Source thing 'Cloud Foundry'

This was new for VMW which was essentially a closed-source company (but Spring, Rabbit, Redis etc)

At the same time MQTT was starting to explode - Eclipse, OASIS process - spokesperson / 'community lead'

Slide 7: GOALs

Presenter Notes:

Where do you sit as a Developer Advocate?

IBM - Technical Marketing

VMW / Pivotal - under the product manager / engineering team - outreach, real community

Twitter - part of business development but closely tied to engineering too

Slide 9: finally

Presenter Notes:

Some final thoughts - what I've learned about what works / what is needed

Slide 10: BE passionate

Presenter Notes:

HAVE FUN

Believe in what you are doing - if you don't it will show.

Be enthusiastic! CARE.

Slide 11: BE patient

Presenter Notes:

Be patient; kind; and resilient

Easy to get burned out, easy to snap at people asking without sharing.

Resilient - MQTT story. Take time out.

Slide 12: BE yourself

Presenter Notes:

Be yourself - you. It's best if you know who you are.

It took me a while to find my voice and persona.

Be honest and genuine - again, IT SHOWS.

Listen.

Hold fast to what you believe, but listen and understand too.

Slide 13: @andypiper

Presenter Notes:

This is who I am.

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