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Devrel, with Christina Warren (GitHub) - S04E05

2023/5/25
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Christina Warren 是一位经验丰富的开发者布道师,她分享了 DevRel 的日常工作,强调了其多样性和跨职能性。她认为 DevRel 的核心是为用户发声,而不是仅仅赞扬公司产品。她还讨论了 DevRel 的技能要求,包括对技术的热情、内容创作能力和社区参与度。她指出,DevRel 的成功难以量化,需要结合社区反馈和用户评价进行综合评估。她还分享了在微软和 GitHub 的工作经验,以及 DevRel 与产品团队的合作方式。她认为 DevRel 和产品团队应该紧密合作,DevRel 可以帮助产品团队发现边缘案例,而产品团队则可以提供更全面的视角。最后,她分享了自己常用的技术工具和硬件设备。 David Mitton 和 Jean Yang 作为主持人,引导 Christina Warren 分享了关于 DevRel 的各种观点,并提出了许多具有洞察力的问题,促进了对 DevRel 的深入了解。他们关注 DevRel 的日常工作、技能要求、成功衡量以及与其他团队的合作方式等方面。

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Christina Warren, Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub, shares what a typical day looks like in her role, highlighting its variability. She describes her Thursday routine of preparing and recording her weekly YouTube show, "The Download," and contrasts it with her upcoming participation at SCALE, showcasing the diverse nature of DevRel.
  • No typical day in DevRel; tasks vary greatly.
  • Weekly YouTube show preparation and recording.
  • Attending conferences and events.

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In this episode, we speak with Christina Warren), senior developer advocate at GitHub) about all things Developer Relations (or “DevRel”). We talk about what constitutes a “typical day” in DevRel (if such a thing exists), how to get started in the field, and the types of skills needed. We also discuss how to measure success in DevRel, the importance of advocating for the user, and where exactly DevRel ends and product begins. You’ll hear about how Christina sees her role as a bridge between the community, product engineering, and the developers using the product, as well as where video fits into it all. 

Hosted by David Mytton) (Console)) and Jean Yang) (Akita Software)).

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ABOUT CHRISTINA WARREN

Christina Warren is a senior developer advocate at GitHub who works in DevRel, helping to connect GitHub’s developer community with its engineers. Prior to working for GitHub, she was a senior cloud developer advocate for Microsoft. With a background in journalism, she creates a lot of video content and is responsible for GitHub’s weekly YouTube show The Download, where she presents the week’s most insightful news for developers. You can find her on Twitter at @film_girl) and on GitHub at @filmgirl).

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Christina Warren: I think that developer relations should be part of product and engineering because it is a really core part of that. That said, to be successful, DevRel needs to be cross-functional so some companies have it under marketing. For their purposes, that might make sense. I think that it makes sense for it to be part of product and engineering. But I think that it's cross-functional insofar as I work with people on basically every different team at GitHub. That's one of the things that's great about GitHub is that they have a really good understanding and appreciation of the value that we can bring because we can help the product teams and the engineering teams create assets for their blog posts. We can help them with their message. We can highlight things because we are on the ground all the time. We can go, “Hey, hey. This thing happened and this is causing problems. Do we want to get ahead of this? And how can we make something better?”

[0:15:02 - 0:15:49]

**Christina Warren: **The way I see my job — and I can't say this for every person in DevRel — but the way I see my job is my title is “developer advocate”, but I'm not advocating for GitHub. I'm advocating for GitHub’s users. I'm advocating for our community. That's really what I'm trying to do. Because I think that by advocating for them, that's how GitHub can be most successful. But, of course, not everybody and not every company might see it that way. They might see it as, “Oh, your only job is just to praise and talk about how great we are.” I don't see it that way. I think that to be really successful, you need to be transparent, you need to be honest, you need to be authentic. That includes when there are situations where you might screw up or when things might not be right because I think that that's what builds trust.

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