DevRel Handbook 2021 - Community Wisdom

Avinash (Avi) Harsh — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:50:01 +0000

"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members." – Coretta Scott King

Last December, just before Christmas, I had the pleasure to be invited to a virtual happy hour with a diverse group of passionate people - Product Leaders, Developer Relations, Community Managers and startup founders.

Sipping our beverages that cold evening and with sunny beach pictures as our zoom backgrounds, we started sharing our experiences from 2020 and thoughts on how we should operate in 2021 and beyond. We touched upon conducting better events, community building, DevRel and how startups can start building a close-knit network with a shoe string budget.

We soon realized that these experiences are way too important to be lost in a happy hour and the idea of a collaborative DevRel Handbook was born.

We prepared a list of topics that evening but promptly removed a few that were extra creative, possibly an after effect of happy hour drinks 😄.

DevRel Handbook Topics

What are the best outreach channels for developer advocacy
Should you start a community or leverage existing communities?
Best practices when you start a new community and more

Full list of topics here

This handbook is a collaborative effort from this amazing community of DevRels, Product leaders, Startups, developers & Community Managers. Participants name below

Please share your thoughts here 👇🏽
DevRel Handbook - 2021 & beyond

Weavrs n' Makrs @Hacktoberfest 2020

Avinash (Avi) Harsh — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:36:05 +0000

Hacktoberfest™️, a celebration of and for the open source software community, is one of the most popular and far-reaching activities in the open source world.

At Weavr, we acknowledge the ways we’ve benefited from free and open source software. As members of a community, we believe it’s important that we contribute value in equal or greater amounts than what we extract. Luckily, Hacktoberfest gives everyone an opportunity to contribute.

In 2020, Weavr team is committed to make a meaningful contribution to the health of the global open source community.

We’re kick starting this new initiative -- Weavrs n' Makrs -- officially on this Hacktoberfest on October 30th, 2020, which will continue to evolve in the coming months.

We aim to create an especially welcoming and supportive environment for people to learn about open source, discover some super awesome open source projects, and begin mapping their path to their first contribution(s) -- and not just by code but via adding the most relevant content for the code.

Weavrs n’ Makers is designed to be accessible and inclusive to folks of all levels of skill and interest.

Open Source Maintainers
Technology Creators
Developer Relations
Tech Content Writers

Participants in Weavrs n’ Makers are invited to sign up for a Weavr account (free) and create Weavr Boards or contribute to others’ Boards) like this one from Okteto "Kubernetes for Developers".

We will start listing the recommended Boards on Weavr.ai -Hacktoberfest Page on the day of the event and in subsequent weeks/months.
For this community initiative, feedback, questions and/or recommendations are truly appreciated. Please send a note to collab@weavr.ai

About Weavr Boards:
Weavr Boards makes it fun to discover tech knowledge from publicly available resources from the internet; curate the most relevant, respectable information; and create a “Board” from which others can build their knowledge about technology topics -- from general topics like “open source software,” to topics specific to open source projects like “Project Drawdown”

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DevRel Handbook 2021 - Community Wisdom

Weavrs n' Makrs @Hacktoberfest 2020