Some resources to help Developer Relations do their job
- Career Ladders Examples
- CFPs
- Communities
- Content Tone & Voice
- Developer Relations Salaries
- Google Apps Tools
- Learning
- Mascots
- Open Source Documentation
- Slack Tools
- Swag
- Momentum Developer Conference: Slack for the Momentum Developer Conference
- Devrel Collective: for advocates, evangelists and community managers
- Flyless Dev: weekly meetup, presentations and community. DevRel without the airmiles.
- CNCF: Cloud Native Computing Foundation Slack community
- Mind the Product
- Product Collective: you need to subscribe to the newsletter to get Slack access (you can unsubscribe after)
- Product Manager HQ: you need to pay a one-time membership fee to join the community
- Product School
- Write the Docs: for technical writers or anyone who cares about documentation
Here are some examples of blog/documentation tone & voice/style document/guide:
- The Developer Relations Collective 2021 survey results
- State of Developer Relations by Hoopy (DevRelCon)
- Form Notifications: create and configure email notifications for response thresholds and Form respondents.
Never underestimate the power of having a cute company or product related mascot for your developer relations work. Here's a list to get inspired if you ever bring that topic to your next meeting with the leadership's team.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS): Sam the squirrel
- DigitalOcean: Sammy the shark
- Go: Gopher
- HootSuite: Owly the owl
- Linux: Tux the pinguin
- Mozilla: a dinosaur
- mParticle: Higgs the capybara
- npm: Wombat
- README.io: Owlbert the owl
- Rust: Ferris the crab
There is also a non-exhaustive list of some of the most well-known product mascots in tech.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of closed sources product or company not known for being open which have open source documentation. This could be helpful to show your company the benefits of having the public documentation on GitHub, and that it's a common practice.
- Aiven
- Algolia DocSearch
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) OpenSearch
- Basis Theory
- Camunda
- CircleCI
- DataDog
- ElasticSearch
- GitHub (Microsoft)
- Google TensorFlow
- Kong
- LiveChat
- Mender
- Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft Visual Studio Code
- MinIO
- New Relic
- Pantheon SaaS Platform
- PlanetScale
- Platform.sh
- PlatformOS
- Postman
- Sitecore OrderCloud
- Twilio Segment
- Vonage Nexmo
There are also lot Open Source projects having their documentation open.
- Channel Tools: bulk invite all members of a Slack team or a channel to another channel & quickly export all members from a channel
- Community Inviter: Slack invitation management tool & landing page (free & paid plans available)
- Slack Invite Automation: a tiny web application to invite a user into your slack team
- Slackin: public Slack organizations made easy
Please note that this list is not an endorsement, and we are not responsible for the products' quality: it is offered as a reference list for you to validate yourself.
If you have had a bad experience with one of these vendors, please let us know about it and provide some details about your experience, and we will remove them from our list.
- Sticker App: they can do stickers with back paper print
- Sticker Mule: @fharper's go to for stickers