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.)