How To Build Developer Communities with Marlene Mhangami | Developer Advocacy
Here's how to build developer communities, organize meetups and conferences, and get developers to interact with one another. I had a chat with Marlene Mhangami, the co-founder of Pycon Africa, Vice-chair at The Python Software Foundation and Developer Advocate at Voltron Data. We talked about building developer communities, developer advocacy and organizing conferences. I'm sure you'll learn a lot from our conversation!
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***Chapters****
Introduction - *00:00:00*
Current role with Voltron data - *00:00:40*
Typical day in the life of a developer advocate? - *00:02:14*
What are developer communities and its usefulness? - *00:04:07*
Processes involved in building developer communities?- *00:07:16*
Challenges in building developer communities? - *00:10:33*
Marlene’s experience organising meet-ups and conference - *00:14:36*
Getting developers to attend meet-ups and conferences? - *00:18:45*
Getting sponsors for developer communities? - *00:20:18*
How to interact with people? - *00:24:01*
Getting developers to interact with each other? - *00:26:20*
General guidelines when interacting with people - *00:29:50*
How do you interact with unruly people? - *00:33:10*
Marlene talks about her current projects - *00:35:40*
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