Welcome To The Voxgig Podcast

We talk to people in the developer community about developer relations, public speaking and community events.

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Since 2018, Richard has been chatting to an international and diverse mix of speakers events organisers and software development advocates, mining for nuggets of wisdom.

Below you’ll find our current featured podcast. You can also scroll through our extensive archive. Each new podcast will be paired with a reinforcing podcast from the archive. You can find these suggestions in our accompanying newsletter.

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Jono Bacon
Episode
87
Jono Bacon
No surprise given Jono’s heavy metal credentials, this episode starts out with a reassuring tale about a rock gig…with more people in the band than in the audience…. So as a conference speaker or community builder, remember that everyone has started out somewhere.
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Adam Christian
Episode
86
Adam Christian
Ah, documentation! Imagine a Readme where the samples you run actually work? Runable commands should become runabale – out of the box with Runme. It’s not magic, it’s the passion of Adam Christian and his team at Stateful to address the epidemic of non-maintained documentations. Richard and Adam dis
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Julia Furst Morgado
Episode
85
Julia Furst Morgado
This is another career guidance episode! Julia has a background in law, marketing and now is a successful developer relations guru. Julia generously shares her journey to DevRel in an accessible chat and with an achievable pathway. But be prepared to commit time and effort to community building.
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Courtney Stanley
Episode
84
Courtney Stanley
Courtney Stanley, a keynote speaker, MC and meeting planner, talks about why it’s important for virtual event organisers to offer people an authentic live experience online.
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Martin Woodward
Episode
83
Martin Woodward
Fun Fact: Our guest this week is a once-developer who, believe it or not, registered Microsoft’s first Github account! Martin Woodward has been helping first Microsoft and then Github build, sustain and support their respective open-source communities.
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Colm Doyle
Episode
82
Colm Doyle
Motivation, Advocacy, and Leadership are the three themes for this week’s #DevRel podcast. This time around in our #DevRel podcast series, Richard Rodger speaks to Colm Doyle. We bring up some big tech company names such as Microsoft, Apple, Open-air, Slack, and Facebook and zero in on what it takes to making #DevRel work.
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PJ Hagerty
Episode
81
PJ Hagerty
Be warned: this podcast contains kindness and care and a decent description of how Guns&Roses are a guide for startups! PJ is a developer, writer, speaker, musician, and Community Advocate.
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Andrew Grill
Episode
80
Andrew Grill
This week, we decided to revive the 2018 podcast with Andrew Grill as we bring up public speaking, the rough journey of becoming a public speaker and such. If you are in DevRel you are probably a public speaker or want to be one.
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John Lynch
Episode
79
John Lynch
When we talk about Developer Relations, we often talk about the three Cs: Code, Community, and Content. This week's podcast talk makes a turn at bringing those three together.
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Vicky Twomey-Lee
Episode
78
Vicky Twomey-Lee
A trip back in time – listen to Vicky Twomey-Lee’s great description of her patient and committed community building in the world of Python and beyond. A how-to guide on building a community and successful event creation! Spoiler alert: it takes work, commitment and patience. Vicky Twomey-Lee is a diversity in tech & community veteran. You need community BEFORE you have an event!
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Alvin Bryan
Episode
77
Alvin Bryan
So, you're a developer, but you feel you need a change of role, but not industry. Well you've come to the right podcast today! In this episode we talk to Alvin Bryan, Developer Advocate at Contentful and a coach at Codebar, a really interesting initiative to help people learning to code and starting out in various languages. Alvin generously and openly walks us through how he moved from being a frontend developer to his current role.
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Joan Mulvihill
Episode
76
Joan Mulvihill
Richard speaks to Joan Mulvihill, Digitalisation & Sustainability Lead at Siemens. This conversation is particularly relevant to CEOs and business leaders feeling under pressure to deliver a digital transformation in their organisations. Joan is brilliant on the "value outcome" and breaks down the three options - a faster horse, a car or something different!
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Suze Shardlow
Episode
74
Suze Shardlow
In this conversation Suze offers really great insight in to the relationship between sales and DevRel and how you have to be really careful in your organisation not to position DevRel as just another part of the sales funnel because nothing turns off developers and damages a community of developers as trying to sell to them directly!
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Mathew Revell
Episode
73
Mathew Revell
This year, DevRelCon is in Prague from Dec 6th, but this interview, carried out before the pandemic, gives wonderful insight in to Matthew's own interest and pedigree in events, but also the genesis of DevRelCon. Listen to Matthew's perfect description of developer relations too!
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Eoin Boylan
Episode
72
Eoin Boylan
In this episode we are in a detailed conversation with Eoin Boylan the CTO of Evervault, a company that does encryption as a service. This is a Developers Relations how-to guide!
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