Community and Event Sponsorship at Datadog
A presentation at Paris DevRel Salon; June 2019 in in Paris, France by Daniel "phrawzty" Maher
Preamble
You are cordially invited to attend a short presentation on the subject of sponsorship of events of a technical nature within the context of the Community team at Datadog including a description of said team and a discussion of the nature of commmunity with a brief but not unpleasant diversion into the role of events within the greater technical industry in this year of our lord two-thousand-and-nineteen.
COMMUNITY SPONSORSHIP AT DATADOG
IT'S NOT SALES
IT'S NOT NOT SALES
IT'S NOT MARKETING
IT'S NOT NOT MARKETING
DATADOG HAS A GREAT EVENTS TEAM
(AND WE’RE NOT IT.)
SO, WHO ARE WE?
(THE COMMUNITY TEAM, THAT IS.)
DOCS & TALKS!
DOCS & TALKS & EDUCATION!
DOCS & TALKS & EDUCATION & OPEN SOURCE!
DOCS & TALKS & EDUCATION & OPEN SOURCE & ENABLEMENT!
LOTS OF STUFF
DOCS & TALKS & EDUCATION & OPEN SOURCE & ENABLEMENT & LOTS OF STUFF
A SERVICE
IN SERVICE
WE ARE IN SERVICE OF THE COMMUNITY ✽
✽ Asterisk
✽ We’re also all employed by a for-profit commercial entity which exists inside of a larger industry built on the principles of regulated market capitalism and are therefore beholden to both the macro-scale market concerns and micro-scale personal concerns (i.e. continued gainful employement) therein. @phrawzty // Datadog
RESPONSIBILITIES: COMPLICATED
DO RIGHT BY THE COMMUNITY
(EVEN IF IT HURTS A LITTLE.)
BE A GOOD ACTOR
ACT THOUGHTFULLY, DELIBERATELY, AND SUSTAINABLY
CONFERENCES MUST BE GOOD ACTORS
LOCALE + CONF + US = GOOD?
IT FEELS LIKE ✨ MAGIC ✨
(AND IS JUST AS RARE.)
FIN.
Resources
The following resources were mentioned during the presentation or are useful additional information.
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Paris DevRel Salon
Link to the Meetup.com event itself
