Aside from giving talks and maybe event organization, the rest of those functions (docs, tutorials) already have roles.
The more naked truth is here:
> marketing teams usually don't have the technical knowledge required
DevRel is marketing that targets developers. They do all the things marketers do: drive adoption, control perception, pressure product teams in customer orgs, and drive product-market fit.
Just like marketers try to build champions in C-suites and pursestring-holders for sales to use to land and expand, devrel builds champions on dev teams in orgs where devs have more control or influence over budgets.
lol, maybe accidentally brutally honesty and ordering in that list of roles. Maybe I was the idiot for ever thinking the huge, lavishly lavishly paid DevRel team at Azure would result in the platform being less of a nightmare for users.
Quality, security, devops, performance, observability, you name it. If you have a separate team for it, I know you're not serious about it.
P.S.: Love all your OSS work!
people call themselves whatever they feel best describes their work, and work specializations develop over time in response to market demand.
