A session in [[New Relic FutureStack]]. > Ever wonder what life as a space pelican might be like? How do they even breathe? Do they eat freeze-dried fish? Jonan Scheffler is here to answer all of your questions. Some about pelicans, but many more about developer relations and how we do it here at New Relic. > > We’re going to talk about the past, present and future of devrel and how it came to pass that rather a lot of developers started getting up to mischief on the internet under the banner of The Relicans. > > If you’ve imagined getting into developer relations yourself or are interested in what motivates all these loud people to keep hopping up on stages you’ll likely find value here. At the very least you’ll walk away with a fresh perspective on the topic of astro-ornithology and the blueprints to design your very own pelican spacesuit. > > Come join us as we learn to fly in the vacuum of space, we can’t wait to see you there. Speaker: [[Jonan Scheffler]], Director of [[Developer Relations]] at [[New Relic]] One of the goals of devrel: have conversations with as many developers as possible (where developers = anyone who builds or runs software; maybe "engineer" is better) > To developers, we represent the company. To the company, we represent developers. He's not here to sell; he's here to be a resource. [[Ali Finkelstein]] was "raised by the internet"