DEV Community: Olle Pridiuksson

Як ти? How are you? 💙💛

Olle Pridiuksson — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:46:52 +0000

Як ти? How are you? - this is a new way of saying I love you, I care about you.
On the image above, the person hasn’t been online for 2 days to see the message. Are they in a bomb shelter? Are they still alive?

Fuck this war in Ukraine.

Somebody I love has lost their business and home. Somebody has lost their job and was displaced. Somebody got detained for 15 days. Somebody lost a leg. Somebody lost a husband and a kid. I am talking about the people I know personally. These are not Instagram stories, these are people, these are lives.

On the first week of the war I felt almost guilty for being safe, guilty for daring to even think about our startup that we had to put on pause.

“Put on the life west on yourself and then help others” - the life-saving manuals say. That’s what Lera (my co-founder) and I did to our emotional health, in exactly this order.

Two of us recorded an audio diary, our emotional journey as a non-representative example of how to live with war and suffering in our backyard.

We didn’t hide, we didn’t move on, we decided to live with it and stay sane, help others. The pain didn’t go away, but at least we found a reason to be beyond the two weeks until “the life goes back to normal”.

Our new reason to be is the jobs page for Ukrainians.
Yes, it is focused on one single country and one single industry. But we do what we can do well:

all jobs have direct HR contacts and specify if English or Russian is enough
all companies specify if remote is an option
we have a Telegram chat to directly help all involved with Lithuanian games industry folks helping Ukrainians

The next step - meetups and events for Ukrainian games professionals to meet the locals here in Vilnius.

And by locals I also mean Belarusians who had to flee their country that is temporarily occupied by kremlin. Yes, Belarusian gamedevs are locals now, and they also want to welcome Ukrainians to Lithuania. 💙💛

This text feels like a dump of personal emotions and it is. I tried to show how I mentally coped with the war in the backyard (where my family and friends have to fight russia) and was able to stay somewhat sane and relatively productive. I am not pretending to be a role model and a perfect example. But here's my way.

ProductHunt page feedback

Olle Pridiuksson — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:49:40 +0000

Fellow devs, can I ask for feedback please?

I am hunting our live video podcast for community builders next week and I'd love your feedback on the copy and the art:

I've build a draft using PreviewHunt

Please bash the copy and the art so we have a chance to improve it:

what was confusing about how it looks and feels?
what message did resonate with you?
anything that annoyed you?

Thanks!

Designing a professional community for devs

Olle Pridiuksson — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 20:59:46 +0000

TL;DR:

Discord for live events + Discourse as a support forum and a knowledge base + twitter and twitch for content + 3 amazing developer advocates to run this all.

In this episode Lera is asking Zan why his company is so smart:

How does CircleCI understand the value of community instead of just buying AdWords and promoting their own posts on Facebook?

And then we talk developer community design and what Zan and his team have for a developer relations strategy in 2021. Events? Livestreams? Virtual swag giveaways?

Hosts:

Community builders and digital content creators. Available for contract work.

Lera: artist, full-time gen z, queen 👑
Karina: business leader, money 🤑
Olle: product, devrel, tech 🎥

Guest:

Zan Markan - Developer Advocate, CircleCI, dad, storyteller, wanderer, immigrant. Snarks and rambles about computer things, planes, craft beer, and policy.

Upcoming episodes:

This show runs on our Discord server and is supported by a friendly pancultural community. Most speakers are our community members.

How to hire a community manager with Jamie Cantrell Langskov - MongoDB
Making sense of online gatherings in 2021 with Guy 'Yug' Blomberg - Games Industry Gathering
Running a Discord server for anime artists with Aigerim Aimova - Usagi Shop
The community for community builders with Alex Angel - Commsor
Using science to research online communities with Martina Pocchiari - PhD Candidate in Empirical Quantitative Marketing

Subscribe to get a weekly email with new episodes.

The motivation

Community is the first threat to Google and Facebook in 15 years - says Alexis Ohanian, the founder of Reddit and 776 venture fund.

This line sticks with me 4 weeks after I heard it. It is the title of my talk at a 700,000 people digital event. It just makes so much sense.

In this very episode with Zan, we discuss how a business cannot lead the conversation about a term or a topic by buying AdWords or promoting FB posts, how sponsoring a conference banner for $15,000 doesn't work anymore, how hosting (not renting from Facebook or Instagram) a community helps businesses.

For CircleCI continuous integration is the #1 term, but the way they operate is so appealing, that I have CircleCI stickers around, and Lera has CircleCI socks despite we both are not really into DevOps, but this brand has a good vibe. We want to orbit CircleCI because we feel like they share our values.

/This text has been written by Olle and reviewed by Lera, Karina, our Discord community and Grammarly

Can we have Sprint Demo as a Service?

Olle Pridiuksson — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:14:43 +0000

Have you promised yourself an improvement? Got a gym card for a year? Subscribed to a weekly healthy food box? Promised to read a book a month?

Pushing oneself to do something you know is right can be easier when you slap a milestone date on it, like January 1st. Then you get a longer subscription and pay upfront to enforce the discipline on you.

If you can buy a year's subscription to a massage to force yourself into good habits, can you also do it for your team?

No, not a team getaway to a spa, but something that delivers health and sanity benefits and also requires a shitload of processes to happen.

For example sprint demos.

You know your users, your community, your salespeople and all other stakeholders would love to watch your team showing very work-in-progress things on a bi-weekly basis. But…

This would be another Zoom call. Just no...
WIP stuff is hard to demo, works only on the dev’s machine
Arranging it all is such a headache and time sink

But it works with a massage subscription. Or a gym card. Or a healthy food sub. Or a book club sub.

Good habit as a service. You know it is good and healthy, so you pay someone to fix the core problem and see how it goes.

With the healthy food box, you’ve decided to eat better, so you pay for someone to figure out:

A diet and a menu that works for you
Suitable groceries logistics to your doorstep
A diverse set of recipes that your household enjoys

You don’t need to become a food expert, you pay monthly so someone capable fixes it for you and arranges a service so you enjoy and benefit.

How could Sprint Demo as a Service look like?

Getting a box of groceries is not the goal, but a way for you to take care of your health.

Having a sprint demo is not the goal, but a way for your team to engage with stakeholders and get feedback.

For this to work for your unique situation someone has to figure out

The format and setting that work for your team and the stakeholders
The tech to deliver the video stream so it is secure, convenient and is of good quality
How to juggle the presenters, get the right people together, etc

How we’re doing it

This is not a sales pitch and XaaS is not my idea (there’s even a Wikipedia article on it). So I’ll share the honest status update of how we’re doing something very similar to the Sprint Demo as a Service.

We help businesses talk to game developers in public space, but some companies are large enough that they want us help them build information flows inside, like Customer A.

Customer A wanted us to arrange, facilitate and deliver their townhalls and sprint demos for their distributed teams. Tech, format, processes even the actual hosting was on us. It has taken 5-6 sessions to figure out what everybody likes to get a buy-in on the top. That is 6 months!

Customer B needed a set of tech demos for their internal developer portal. We came up with the format, figured out the tech and the processes, but never showed up on the camera. We facilitated everything, but it were the Customer B employees who hosted the shows. It was a very easy assignment.

Customer C needed only tech and delivery help, so we functioned almost as a human version of Streamyard plus we manage their YouTube channel and community.

However, I don’t think their format is a good representation of what we’re best at. But they are very satisfied with what they get from us and are happy to pay for the service.

I like the concept of Sprint Demo as a Service, despite what we offer is much more. It may take time to figure out how to isolate it into a separate offering and productify it. Or we will just stay with our pitch line of “we help businesses talk to game developers”.

What would it take for you and your team to even consider letting a 3rd party to facilitate your sprint demos?

It is a multi-layered question. On one side - you can have your scrum master just arrange a Zoom meeting. On another side it gonna suck and fade.

But then letting the 3rd party to the top secret internal stuff is… too private?

…but paying someone to touch your body is also too private, and we call it a massage.

I am talking to myself now ;-) What is your feedback, people? What would it take for you and your team to even consider letting a 3rd party to facilitate your sprint demos?

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If you’re curious to peek into what we do, you can follow Devrel.Events corporate blog on YouTube - it is called The Worst of Us - and is a cross of tech and comedy.

What we've learned while doing interviews for developer conferences

Olle Pridiuksson — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:05:04 +0000

TL;DR: we took a super-casual approach to speaker interviews - kids, dogs, family - and it worked.

We help businesses talk to game developers to be more visible, so we feel and understand the industry.

Instead of persuading speakers to film a 15 sec "please come to my talk" blurb, conferences connected us to their flagship speakers and we did a set of super-casual livestreams on twitch, then cut them into 20 minute videos for YouTube and several 2-3 minute videos for Instagram.

I can explain our #livestreaming tech, formats, what works and what doesn't ☕ If there's interest, but now I'd like to focus on casual interviews as a developer conference marketing asset.

The more casual format with a human touch and focus on speaker's life, kids, hobbies and less focus on their work got the best response.

I think people are tired of endless webinars, and such light and funny interviews are the next best thing to networking. And many people miss networking.

Here's the YouTube playlist with clean copies (no conference overlays, extra logos, intros, etc) of our hangouts as a reference.

Gamedev Stories is what I am referring to as casual interviews.

The world cannot care less about what you did

Olle Pridiuksson — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:16:18 +0000

It is not about getting through the noise anymore, it is getting through all the local news that is suddenly more important and does impact people’s lives more than anything else in the world.

Everyone is depressed.
The world cannot care less about what you do.
The world cannot care less about what I do.
It hurts when friends and family get sick.
It hurts when we cannot hang out with friends.
It hurts to watch the TV where politicians play politics.

I open my Twitter and there’s a friend in Armenia and there’s a war. A friend in Nigeria and there’s a war. A friend in Belarus and there’s a war. The situation in the UK, Hong Kong, the US… All this while the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer…

And you care how to sell your product or service instead.
And I too care how to sell my product or service instead as well.

I want to care about my friends, the sick world, the pandemic and global warming too. But I just don’t have any emotional capacity for this. I know you too feel emotionally dead by now.

You and I, we care about selling our products or services instead so our employees can cater to their families. Or perhaps we lie to ourselves because we’re in a privileged situation and we want to get the most of it.

I cannot really reply to myself now. I honestly don’t know.

What I know is the general mood of public unconsciousness is globally low, and telling your story, selling your product, getting noticed is hard. It is not about getting through the noise anymore, it is getting through all the local news that is suddenly more important and does impact people’s lives more than anything else in the world.

Attention economy.

That’s what we’re trying to solve now with Karina and Lera, my co-founders. Attention economy.

The problems are two:

The solution is shifting as the global situation develops
The problem is not yet recognized as a problem

The 2-nd problem is more fun to unpack.

People with budgets still think in old paradigms like “let’s buyout the branding of a conference” or “let’s sponsor a party” since previously they got lots of relevant leads at a particular global event.

It is a glorified Zoom call.
Everything is a Zoom call now.
The after-party is a Zoom call.
The investor pitch is a Zoom call.
Your sponsored booth is a Zoom call.
Your conference talk is also a Zoom call.

I know, myself and many experienced developer relations and developer events folks are on the forefront of content - text, video, audio, tutorials, meetups - creation and consumption. We get to learn the new tools and to feel the new experiences first. And we are to build up a narrative and suggest solutions to our employers.

How do we make the sick tired world interested in what we're selling - our products or services?

How do we inspire people to switch off from the doomscrolling and to care about what we do for a brief moment? That’s the attention economy deal.

Content formats? Platforms? Art and covers?

Yes. Also empathy.

Cliff-hanger. Like and subscribe. I need my dopamine to continue.

I am listening to Muse on a CD that I purchased in Copenhagen sometime in 2010. I have a library of music on compact discs and a dedicated hardware CD player. I am also old enough to remember ЖЖ, Livejournal or a kind of Russian MySpace where one could put the music they’re listening while blogging.

The 40-min Hullabaloo album is over hinting I am out of time for the first essay. See you next week?

But if you feel salty for the cliff-hanger and cannot wait for the next week, here's further reading for you today:

Funny. I feel I am writing this for myself, but I also feel that I rely on dopamine to continue…

I will continue blogging on dev.to, but if by any chance you check your inbox more often than dev.to, scroll up for a tiny substack link on top.

Best calendar solution for Jekyll?

Olle Pridiuksson — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:44:16 +0000

Can anyone advise a calendar solution to display events?

Use case
To conveniently show our developer meetups and let folks easily add their chosen meetups to their personal calendars.

I can just embed a Google calendar widget, but some fellow devs use Apple calendar or outlook, etc.

I like eventable.com - it is exactly what I want, but their backend is very slow and times-out making it mostly unusable =(

I use Jekyll for the website.

Thanks!

We recorded 15-min shorts on improving presentation skills for developers

Olle Pridiuksson — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 10:35:39 +0000

My job required me to prepare and perform technical talks at developer events online and offline for the last 11 years. I wanted to share the knowledge an experience around this topic and together with peers recorded a series of 15-20-minute videos about public speaking for programmers.

We feel the public speaking topic is even more important today, now that most events are global. You can do a talk at an event that used to happen in New York or Tokyo or Paris from your bedroom pretty much. And you probably should!

Our videos cover topics like:

How do you present yourself as a speaker
How do you apply to events, what to think about
How do you craft your speaker bio
How do you do technical live demos
How do you know what you're good enough to speak about

Our YouTube channel also features videos about technical leadership and developer relations, but this is the playlist dedicated to presentation skills for devs.

On Wednesday we're recording the last videos in the series until autumn

I am especially excited about our recording session on Wednesday, July 8th, because of the speaker setup:

A teenager from Eastern Europe will give tips about talking to teens about tech
A programmer from Africa will explain how developer conferences work in that region
Oracle's director of developer marketing will share his experience about storytelling for developers

We will livestream these talks to our YouTube and will add them to the playlist next week. But if you'd like to join the panel discussion in a voice chat or talk to the speakers in our Discord community - you're welcome to register on Eventbrite.

We'll continue recording in Autumn

After a short break we'll start the Season 2 with talks around technical leadership, developer relations, developer community management and presenting to programmers.

And you're welcome to apply as a speaker or as a supporter, sponsor, partner...

We have an ambition of having our speakers as diverse as possible, since we believe that new voices bring new and important experience.

Our world is global now

Really, think about it - our Wednesday event is a testimonial to my claim about the world being global and diverse: a teen from Eastern Europe, a developer from Africa and a director from a high profile US company are happy to speak on equals at the same event.

This post is here to inspire

I and we really hope that this short message has inspired you to remember some of the awesome blogposts that you have posted on DEV and submit them as talks, become a speaker, find new audience, get new contacts and open up a new world of developer conferences and meetups globally that perhaps were out of options for you because of logistics or costs.

Also, I am here in the comments below, ready to reply to your questions, ideas or comments around developer relations, technical presenting or online meetups.

Best community tools for online tech meetups

Olle Pridiuksson — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:49:54 +0000

Community meetups used to be all about the local touch, getting to know people in your area and geeking out about a specific topic. The online vibe though removes all the "local" features that were sort of key pillars of the community meetups.

With Forem announcement and the feeling that local IRL meetups may not resume anytime soon, here's the first article in the series:

Community tools
Video chat and streaming tools
Meetup formats that work well online

This is part 1: Community tools

You may follow me to not miss the rest of the story =)

Context:

I work in developer relations where facilitating or doing tech meetups is common. We run a bi-weekly devrel meetup (used to be IRL, now moved online) that I will be using as a base for this article.

Community tools

Meetup.com - The good folks at Grafana have sponsored our meetup.com acc for the devrel meetups. But now that everything is online the "local" has less of importance, I don't see meetup.com generating much value or activity overall for our meetups.
Eventbrite solves everything but community and discovery. It has an ok emails solution to talk to your audience, but there's no chat or a forum to interact with your community beyond emailing them. Eventbrite has some automation to remind your audience to tune in to the live-stream i.e. 1 hour before the event.
Facebook - Despite what I personally think of Facebook, there's a single button click to import an event there from Eventbrite (the ticketing is sort of connected) and another button to invite friends and peers. It almost solves the community/discovery part. "Almost" because many people just cannot stand Facebook. Additionally, Facebook delivers your message to your own community only if you promote the post.
Forem - Dev.to's Forem looks great as a platform for bigger communities. It may feel too large and too empty for smaller ones. Yet if Forem/dev.to could help meetup orgs solve the event discovery problem, then meetup.com would possibly end up having nothing to offer.
Other tools - the reason people still use meetup.com despite all the bad deeds is that the community is there. There are lots of tools that are better than meetup.com, but if it cannot help with event discovery, well, one gets back to meetup and pays 15USD/mo for the privilege of organising free community meetups.
techtalks.io gets an honourable mention among all those new tools because it was designed specifically for tech meetups. It has a risk of not getting traction and joining the other tools fate. I will put our meetups there and report back.

TL;DR:

Do you have a functioning online community? A chat, a forum?

You can use Eventbrite as an event landing page.

Is your community scattered or do you expect to attract a new audience?

You have to heavily compete for attention and use all the marketing tools you can.

Outro:

Many event/meetup leaders (including me/us) have switched to "no IRL meetups" mode for a while. To pivot online we did many things including several format changes and made a landing with GitHub Pages to host the meetup live-stream: devrel.events/live.

I promise to be very open about our numbers, the journey, the tools and the mistakes in the series of blog posts here on dev.to and below in the comments. If community meetups are something you're curious about - well, <3 and follow then?

P.S.

Let's take a small step back and look at our twitter feeds - everyone is doing online conferences now, everyone is streaming. And I, you, we can attend any of these events. Probably for "free".

So there's 1 - competition, 2 - events anxiety. When one has too much of something, that something loses value.

I'll address this in part 3.

Did you move your real-life meetups online?

Olle Pridiuksson — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 11:43:06 +0000

In previous life when hugging each other was a viable option we used to have developer community meetups around topics that we cared about. Often hosted at company offices or sometimes in bars. Remember those, huh? Did you org one? Did you host one?

Did you move your real-life community meetups online?

I am asking because I did, and it has many pros and cons. The online version of a real-life meetup has a single extra word in the naming, but essentially only remotely resembles the real-life meetups we loved to attend.

So what's your experience?
Did you move your real-life meetups online?
Are you thinking about doing so?

I could probably take time to write down a kind of a guide, share my experience. But is it a problem that you people are looking for a solution to?

A job ad that helps bring in a diverse talent to developer relations field

Olle Pridiuksson — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:59:26 +0000

I am typical "white male after 30" kind of person, who does lots of public speaking, conferences, events, teaching, coaching and alike. I've been in developer relations for 11+ years and it is mostly people like me. Talking sort of to people like me... I think it is not right, and we can do better in this industry.

For the last 2-3 years, I've been part of many "women in tech" initiatives and have been vocal about diversity and inclusion in any event I'd organise or even participate.

Now I have a chance to focus more on bringing more women and minorities to developer relations, empowering speakers and raising a new wave of role models. But there's a question I'd like to open up to this community to discuss. A job ad question.

It has been widely discussed how to craft job ads to look appealing to women and minorities. I think King (I've enjoyed 4 years there) is a true role model in this regard.

But can we go even further on?

Now I am consulting a company where there'd be a place for two junior vue.js programmers who I'd help to leap to a developer relations role. Sounds like a perfect opportunity to attract more diverse people to devrel, a craft that often requires 5-6 years in a specific programming field.

But...can we limit the job ad to women and minorities or am I leaping too far off?

Dev community, would you please share your opinions on gender-specific job ads in tech? From one side, there's nothing gender-specific in the junior programmer/devrel role. From the other side, it is a perfect opportunity to bring more diversity to devrel and help bring up diverse public speakers, role models who'd inspire people like them.

The ultimate checklist for a company GitHub

Olle Pridiuksson — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 22:38:31 +0000

Here’s some context to it, but in a nutshell, this long read is focused on what it takes to publish a company internal tool to GitHub. I will use the project I spend my time on as an example.

It takes time and effort to write, but also to read the long reads. So today I will focus on a small subset of the checklist below and will continue in a new blog post if you express your interest with a <3.

This is also a good reason to subscribe so you get a notification once the next part is ready.

TL;DR Checklist:

Internal dependencies
Security audit
License
Ownership model
Contribution guidelines
Code of conduct
Documentation
Launch plan
GitHub as a landing page

The checklist is based on my personal experience, and I am open to feedback and dialogue. I was employed or contracted by 3 companies who were eager to embrace open source to add value to their existing business models. This means that the business wasn’t built around the open-source like it is common to have an open-source product and sell services around it.

I am happy to state that more and more tech startups have this approach in mind.

GitHub as a landing page

In many cases, it makes sense to have the company’s GitHub as the landing page for open-source initiatives. The internet has collected lots of wisdom on a perfect readme.md for a small private repo. But we’re talking about a product that was used internally for a while and now is being open-sourced. It is a task of higher complexity.

Developer community

We start from a point when the community maintaining the project is just your team, they use internal processes and tools to communicate and to manage the issues. Transitioning to being open may be too cumbersome and expensive, then there’s a language barrier sometimes.

A good start is to put some feature requests and bugs to GitHub issues on your repo, so it is not empty.

Then you can focus on removing the barriers for the early adopters to dig through your code and try to use your thing. You can start a dedicated Getting Started thread in Issues so people don’t hesitate to post questions that may not deserve a dedicated issue in the comments. It may sound overwhelming, but we’re just starting to build the community and we have to be friendly and accommodating to people of different cultures and backgrounds.

Here’s an example of the Issues page of a young freshly open-sourced product:

ProtocolONE / ptah-editor

Powerful, fast and Open source Web Builder Framework for modern cross browser landing pages for the games.

Ptah - Vue.js-based landing page builder

Ptah Builder is an easy-to-use open-source tool to build landing pages for video games without any coding.

Features · Getting Started · Documentation · Contribute and Support

Features

Ptah is a Vue.js-based framework that combines various ready-to-use templates for a landing page.

Ptah Builder provides you with all the features you need to promote your game:

Free and open source under Apache-2.0 license
Produces ready to deploy PWA projects
Ships with 2 production quality templates
- All our templates feature responsive design out of the box and are mobile-friendly
- You can modify our templates or add your own
Contains multiple ready to use building blocks
- Each building section can be additionally tweaked to your needs and taste
- Sections support drag-n-drop and live edits

Documentation

Here's a blog post at dev.to just about what we're doing and why.

The full documentation for Ptah Builder can be…

View on GitHub

Make sure your dev team gets emails or slack messages for new issues on GitHub and that these issues get attention.

You can create custom issue templates to guide users through what you’d like them to submit. We didn’t overthink it for the start. But as our community grows, we’ll put a link to the docs or FAQ to the templates and perhaps we’ll have separate templates for client and server issues.

Readme.md

In many ways readme.md has to be optimised for the kind of user you’d like to start looking into your product. It should be easy to navigate, short enough so people can read it and find the relevant info and long enough so people who have no idea what they’re looking for and why on your GitHub page can scroll through to understand if it is something relevant for them.

We optimised the first 30 seconds experience by focusing on bullet points and one-liners that answer the critical questions and explain how the code in this repository may be relevant to the user.

We went the extra mile to have a demo of the product and a demo of whatever the product produces - a progressive web app in our case. We’re still at about 50 starts and don’t have too many people visiting our repository, so cannot tell if that extra mile was worth the effort.

Beyond obvious points like a nice gif, a popular license and some familiar badges, there’s a Getting Started part that draws attention. My very humble opinion is to not overcomplicate things -

Clear one-liner what is the expected result
The simplest case for how to build the minimal version of the product
Loud and sound promise for user support and further development

In our case we’re showing only how to build a client while the complex server part with dependencies is hidden in the docs. Which makes sense if you think about it. Ptah is a WYSIWYG editor, so it is the front end that potential users care about most. If devs like the editor, like the code, then they can dig deeper to understand how to launch it all in an own CMS, cloud or whatever setup is necessary.

The tricky part is that the readme features bits and pieces from the documentation along with the pitch. And there’s no easy way to automate it using standard GitHub tools, so you have to remember to update the readme each time you update the corresponding docs. And vice versa.

License, CoC, CG, Docs

These topics require own long reads, but I cannot talk about GitHub as a landing page without mentioning the license, code of conduct, contribution guidelines and documentation.

Many devs cannot use your code if it lacks a popular license, either because they don’t want to pay a lawyer to read through your small print or because this is the policy in their company. This is crucial since the Open Source Survey states that at least 70% of respondents use open source professionally rather than for hobby projects. The data is years old, although I cannot see it being out of date.

Code of conduct and contribution guidelines are important for the user, but even more important for you as a company. You need a set of clear rules to base your future decisions and conflict resolutions on or else you may find yourself in a toxic situation.

We based our CoC on Contributor Covenant for the same reasons we picked a popular license.

The contribution guidelines require extra work. Currently we just don’t accept pull requests, but further on we’ll explore solutions like CLA Assistant to automate the legal part.

Good docs take time to build or to move from whatever internal system you have. For now, we just have a stub to build upon. These are regular non-fancy markdown files that we’ll convert to a nice documentation website using Hugo or similar tech.

Summary

The checklist above is huge, while this article discusses just a single point that unrolls into 3 more bullet points, each owning a paragraph of text. Indeed, open-sourcing as a company is a different experience than as an individual.

DEV Community: Olle Pridiuksson

Як ти? How are you? 💙💛

ProductHunt page feedback

Designing a professional community for devs

TL;DR:

In this episode Lera is asking Zan why his company is so smart:

Hosts:

Guest:

Upcoming episodes:

The motivation

Can we have Sprint Demo as a Service?

If you can buy a year's subscription to a massage to force yourself into good habits, can you also do it for your team?

How could Sprint Demo as a Service look like?

How we’re doing it

What would it take for you and your team to even consider letting a 3rd party to facilitate your sprint demos?

What we've learned while doing interviews for developer conferences

TL;DR: we took a super-casual approach to speaker interviews - kids, dogs, family - and it worked.

The world cannot care less about what you did

Attention economy.

How do we make the sick tired world interested in what we're selling - our products or services?

Cliff-hanger. Like and subscribe. I need my dopamine to continue.

Best calendar solution for Jekyll?

We recorded 15-min shorts on improving presentation skills for developers

Our videos cover topics like:

On Wednesday we're recording the last videos in the series until autumn

We'll continue recording in Autumn

Our world is global now

This post is here to inspire

Best community tools for online tech meetups

This is part 1: Community tools

Context:

Community tools

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Outro:

P.S.

Did you move your real-life meetups online?

Did you move your real-life community meetups online?

A job ad that helps bring in a diverse talent to developer relations field

But can we go even further on?

The ultimate checklist for a company GitHub

TL;DR Checklist:

GitHub as a landing page

Developer community

ProtocolONE / ptah-editor

Powerful, fast and Open source Web Builder Framework for modern cross browser landing pages for the games.

Ptah - Vue.js-based landing page builder

Features · Getting Started · Documentation · Contribute and Support

Features

Documentation

Readme.md

License, CoC, CG, Docs

Summary

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