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Plans a quarter of developer-relations content as a dated slot plan with named owners and reviewers - fixed anchors (releases, launches, CFP deadlines, conferences), a surface, pillar, journey and shelf-life mix, and sizing against real writing and review capacity. Use whenever the user asks for a devrel content calendar, an editorial calendar or content plan for a developer audience, what to publish next quarter, how to balance evergreen against launch-tied content, how many pieces a small team can ship, or says their content plan keeps slipping - even if they only say "we publish randomly". Plans the quarter only; individual pieces go to the per-format skills such as samber/developer-relations-skills@engineering-blog-post.
Decides what a company open-sources and what stays proprietary, names the strategic motive for each side of the line, says who owns the decision, and states what the company commits never to close. Use whenever someone asks "should we open source this?", "what should we open source", "where do we draw the open-core line", "which features stay paid", "who signs off on open sourcing this", or wants a company-level open source strategy rather than a plan for one project - even if they frame it as a licensing question. Produces an asset-by-asset open/closed verdict, a value-capture and irreversibility check, a public non-reversal commitment and a re-evaluation trigger. Not license selection - use samber/developer-relations-skills@oss-license-strategy.
Designs and runs a recurring developer meetup or user group - purpose and host model, format menu, cadence, a standing speaker pipeline, in-kind venue and food sponsors with their conduct limits, no-show planning, the attendee-to-co-organizer ladder, and a health scorecard. Use whenever someone mentions starting a developer meetup or user group, dying meetup attendance, finding meetup speakers, getting a venue or pizza sponsor, how often to meet, RSVPs who never show, or handing the meetup over - even if they only say "we want to do local events". Covers independent, vendor-backed and company-staffed groups. Not for speaking at a conference - use samber/developer-relations-skills@conference-cfp-submission.
Designs a company's developer relations program from the top - the business driver that funds it, the two goals it is allowed to serve, the pillar mix (advocacy, marketing, enablement, community) for its stage, audience priority, build-vs-buy per bet, staffing sequence, and a written refused list. Use whenever someone asks whether to start doing DevRel, what a new devrel program should do first, why devrel work is busy but not landing, how to justify the program to an exec, which pillar deserves the next investment, who to hire next, or whether to outsource content, events or community - even if they never say "strategy". Not the first-90-days plan - use samber/developer-relations-skills@developer-relations-kickoff. Not metrics, org chart or budget math.
Designs a maintainer-side open-source sponsorship program - the tier ladder and its pricing for individual and corporate sponsors, rewards that stay deliverable at ten times the sponsor count, funding-goal and sustainability framing, and the invoice-and-entity path a company needs before it can pay. Use whenever a maintainer asks how to get sponsors or funding for a project, sets up or fixes GitHub Sponsors, Open Collective or FUNDING.yml, writes sponsor tiers, rewards or a sponsorship page, wonders why nobody sponsors a widely used project, considers sponsorware, or wants a company to fund maintenance work - even if they only say the project is unsustainable. Not the company side - use samber/developer-relations-skills@oss-sponsors-brand-strategy.
Plans and runs an open-source project launch end to end - name and license clearance, the readiness gate, positioning and one-liner, channel sequencing, the launch-day war room, star-velocity and GitHub Trending mechanics, and post-launch measurement. Use whenever someone is about to release, announce, open-source or "Show HN" a repository, asks how to reach GitHub Trending, wants the first real users or stars for a new library, is planning a Product Hunt post or a multi-day launch week, or asks why a launch fell flat (even if they only say they are pushing a repo public). Covers individual-developer and company adoption. Not ongoing distribution afterwards - use samber/developer-relations-skills@oss-distribution-strategy instead.
Employer-side DevRel hiring - writes the job posting and outcome-based scorecard, designs the interview loop and question bank across the field's formats (presentation round, take-homes, DevRel-opinion round), scores a portfolio against the six-signal rubric, designs a paid work sample instead of unpaid spec work, and builds a 30-60-90 ramp anchored on a friction log. Splits by company type and funding driver. Use when the user asks how to hire a developer advocate, write a DevRel job posting, design a loop for a community manager or educator, evaluate a candidate's portfolio, or plan a ramp. Do NOT use for candidate-side prep (samber/developer-relations-skills@devrel-career) or org design (samber/developer-relations-skills@devrel-team-structure).
Builds a developer-event sponsorship plan - which conferences, meetups and hackathons to sponsor, at which tier, with which on-site activation, and how to prove the money worked. Use whenever a DevRel lead, developer marketer or founder mentions sponsoring a conference, booth cost, a sponsorship tier or package negotiation, splitting an event budget across events, hackathon sponsorship, or event ROI - even if they only ask "is this booth worth it". Do NOT use for organizing your own event (samber/developer-relations-skills@developer-meetup-program), getting a talk accepted (samber/developer-relations-skills@conference-cfp-submission), or sponsoring open-source projects.
Decides whether and how to invest in structured developer education, such as learning paths, a developer academy, hands-on labs, badges or a full certification program - instead of more ad-hoc content, then designs its operating model, staffing, refresh cadence, measurement and kill rules. Use whenever someone mentions a developer academy, certification, a developer curriculum, training for developers, learning paths, skill badges or credentials, "should we certify our users", partner or SI enablement training, or scaling developer onboarding beyond docs - even if they only say "we need more training content". Covers B2B, partner and bottom-up motions. Never writes the courses themselves. Use samber/developer-relations-skills@developer-tutorial for a lesson.
Chooses an open-source project's license and contribution policy as one decision - permissive vs weak, strong or network copyleft, dependency-driven compatibility constraints, DCO vs CLA vs nothing, dual licensing and open core, source-available options (BUSL, FSL, Elastic License, SSPL), and the fork risk of relicensing. Use whenever someone asks which license to pick, whether MIT, Apache-2.0, GPL or AGPL fits, whether to require a CLA or a DCO sign-off, how to relicense an existing project, whether AGPL really protects against cloud providers, or which LICENSE, SPDX and NOTICE files to ship - even if they only voice a legal worry. Not what the company open-sources at all - use samber/developer-relations-skills@open-source-company-strategy. Never legal advice.
Turns support tickets, issue history and error telemetry into troubleshooting and error-reference pages a developer finds by pasting the error string - symptom, conditions, cause, fix and verification entries, an error-code catalog generated from one source of truth, and fixes wired back into the product's own error output. Use whenever the user mentions troubleshooting docs, documenting error codes, error message pages, a known-issues page, building an FAQ from support tickets, or "we answer the same question every week" - even if they only say "users keep hitting this error". Not for debugging a live incident. Do NOT use for docs search ranking - use samber/developer-relations-skills@docs-seo.
Makes SDK, API or protocol documentation something a coding agent can integrate from unattended - crawler access, machine-readable entry points (llms.txt, markdown endpoints, OpenAPI and JSON Schema files), self-contained copy-paste-safe pages, and a measured first-attempt agent success rate. Use whenever the user mentions agent-readable or AI-ready docs, agent experience or AX, llms.txt or llms-full.txt, docs for coding agents, agents inventing API calls that do not exist, or asks whether an agent could wire up their SDK from the docs alone - even if they never say "agent". Not for AI-search citation, nor a repo's own contributor-facing agent instructions. For human docs architecture use samber/developer-relations-skills@developer-docs-structure-audit.