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Software Engineering :: Developer :: Relations :: Playbook

Software Engineering :: Developer :: Relations :: Playbook

⪼ Made with 💜 by Polyglot.

Playbook

  • reach out to ecosystem developers (community push)
  • had enough time now to know what we have, but now need to go to people and find out what do they need
  • make appointments.
  • with andre, what are the list of people to be in touch with
  • reach out and get devs to work on thing srealted to new tech, ZSAs etc.
  • What do people say they need

Milestones

1 - 2 months
  • introduction to the community (calls, twitter, forums, blog)
  • close some github prs (examples, docs)
  • live demo internally & externally (i.e. demo homebrew to internal team then external devs on a call)
  • start going to events and promoting (i.e. organize some breakout sessions, give away swag)
2 - 4 months
  • build examples and post to GitHub, gists, blog
  • YouTube examples
  • Meetups (contact organizer)
5 - 6 months
  • documentation revamp?

Framework

PREACH

  • Be Prolific
  • Be Responsive
  • Be Engaging
  • Be Active
  • Be Creative
  • BE Humble
Tim Berglund Notes
- 4-6 weeks: examples on GitHub
- YouTube examples
- Meetups (contact organizer)
- Docs

Joshy
- /recipies
- Seminar (tuesdat 1400)

Digital Ocean
- tech talks email
- Weekly or biweekly cloud chats

Zec
- host community calls
- more companies contributing\
- developer experience
- community developer meetings
- Travel: remote first company, as long as fitting into meeting schedule
- some people are nomadic

Talk with Nate

Community Building Frameworks

The Orbit Model

Responsibilities

  • Grow Online & Offline Community
  • Lead Open Source Efforts
  • Community Management (Earn the trust of other engineers in the community)
  • Advocacy
  • Developer Experience
  • Product Direction
  • Example Use-Cases & Demos
  • Integrations w/ Other Products
  • Organizing & Leading Online Conferences, Workshops & Other Training Events
  • Product Documentation
  • Content Production (YouTube, Blog, Podcast)
  • Software Engineering
  • Capture Metrics & Insights
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