Hi everyone welcome to the six and z podcast I'm so no today's episode

continues our community practices series by covering all things developer

relations but it actually applies to almost any company with a community.

The discussion covers how to measure the success of community initiatives, including

is there one key metric or KPI for healthy communities, and how do you even know you're measuring the right

thing to how to organize DevRall within a community from who to hire first, where it fits in an

organization, how to align incentives, and more.

The conversation also touches on the difference between evangelism and advocacy, the role of

meta communities or community leaders and how to involve them and where

swag does and doesn't come in. Our guest is Amir Shavat who was VP of

product and developer experience at Twitch at the time this event took place, was formerly director of

developer relations at Slack, and also previously worked at Google and Microsoft.

He begins with a short overview of key concepts

followed by a Q&A with Michael Rogers,

who works on community operations at Protocol Labs

and was formerly community manager of the Node-JS Foundation. He's also actually been on a previous episode. formerly Community who I also recently had back on on another episode all about community.

But this episode is actually based on a conversation that took place at a workshop

organized for our portfolio by then A6 and crypto partner Jesse Walden because crypto gives developers

the ability to build on top of and extend any protocol or application in the space and

developer relations and community building is an important part of that being realized.

For more on crypto community building be sure to check out a six and see.com

slash crypto school and to find all our episodes so far on the theme of community

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