API industry analyst Mark Boyd offers a look at what data can be most useful as evidence of API success in his talk at DevRelCon London 2017.

Or why stars are not the answer

Without metrics, how do you know that you’re bringing value to your organisation?

What does it take to measure the health of an open source community? What does healthy even look like?

Developer relations strategy is often an afterthought. In this talk, Baruch Sadogursky asks whether that’s okay and gets the opinion of dev rel leaders from companies large and small.

It’s time for us to get serious about developer relations. No more cargo culting. No more vanity metrics.

Every other part of business has fancy frameworks to plan their strategies. Now, thanks to Phil Leggetter, devrel has one too.

How should we measure developer relations? Is it about leads, downloads, awareness?

As developer relations practitioners, how do we maintain our connection to, partnerships with and influence over other parts of the business?