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Awesome Community Building
A curated list of awesome resources on building developer communities. ๐ฅ
Books ๐
- The Business Value of Developer Relations: How and Why Technical Communities Are Key To Your Success - A great book to understand the value of DevRel by Mary Thengvall.
- Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software - An inside look at modern open source software developers by Nadia Eghbal.
- Developer Marketing Does Not Exist - An awesome book to understand the difference between marketing and community building by Adam DuVander.
- Developer Marketing and Relations: The Essential Guide - A 101 on community building by DevRelx.
- The Business of Belonging: How to Make Community your Competitive Advantage - A tactical primer for any business embarking on the critical work of actively building community.
- The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation - A comprehensive guide to building online communities.
Articles ๐๏ธ
- Building Welcoming Communities - A guide on building engaging and inclusive communities.
- Open Source Metrics - A guide on open source and community-relevant metrics.
- Building a developer community - An insightful blog by Alex DeBrie about building community at Serverless.
- How to build a strong developer community - An interstesting chat between Amanda Folson (GitLab) and Jasmine Anteunis (Recast.ai) on how GitLab approaches community-building, including a deep dive on developer advocacy.
- Tried (& Tested) Community Engagement Tricks To Revive Your Community - An 8-part blog article on community engagement strategies.
- The Developer Advocate's Guide to Metrics and Reporting - A guide to metrics worth measuring for developer communities.
Podcasts ๐ฃ
- Under the Hood of Developer Marketing - Tech Industry pioneers from the worldโs largest tech companies, share insight on developer marketing success.
- Community Pulse - Interviews with experts in the field of Community Leadership and Management on a broad range of topics related to building community.
- The Community Corner - Beth McIntyre interviews the world's best community builders in 15 minutes.