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Community and Event Sponsorship at Datadog

Slide 1 · 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.

Slide 2 · COMMUNITY SPONSORSHIP AT DATADOG

Slide 3 · IT'S NOT SALES

Slide 4 · IT'S NOT NOT SALES

Slide 5 · IT'S NOT MARKETING

Slide 6 · IT'S NOT NOT MARKETING

Slide 7 · DATADOG HAS A GREAT EVENTS TEAM

(AND WE’RE NOT IT.)

Slide 8 · SO, WHO ARE WE?

(THE COMMUNITY TEAM, THAT IS.)

Slide 9 · DOCS & TALKS!

Slide 10 · DOCS & TALKS & EDUCATION!

Slide 11 · DOCS & TALKS & EDUCATION & OPEN SOURCE!

Slide 12 · DOCS & TALKS & EDUCATION & OPEN SOURCE & ENABLEMENT!

Slide 13 · LOTS OF STUFF

DOCS & TALKS & EDUCATION & OPEN SOURCE & ENABLEMENT & LOTS OF STUFF

Slide 14 · A SERVICE

Slide 15 · IN SERVICE

Slide 16 · WE ARE IN SERVICE OF THE COMMUNITY ✽

Slide 17 · ✽ 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

Slide 18 · RESPONSIBILITIES: COMPLICATED

Slide 19 · DO RIGHT BY THE COMMUNITY

(EVEN IF IT HURTS A LITTLE.)

Slide 20 · BE A GOOD ACTOR

ACT THOUGHTFULLY, DELIBERATELY, AND SUSTAINABLY

Slide 21 · CONFERENCES MUST BE GOOD ACTORS

Slide 22 · LOCALE + CONF + US = GOOD?

Slide 23 · IT FEELS LIKE ✨ MAGIC ✨

(AND IS JUST AS RARE.)

Slide 24 · FIN.