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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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!

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!

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!