More LornaJane

Challenging misconceptions around a developer career

Information Age, April 2022

Writing about one of my favourite topics: how weird and diverse developers are :) This has been a great career for me and I wish more people saw it that way … In Information Age: https://www.information-age.com/challenging-misconceptions-around-developer-career-123499275/

Hoss Talks Foss #54

Hoss Talks Foss, March 2022

A fun opportunity to hang out and talk open source, databases, and really anything else that came to mind with Matt Yonkovit of Percona. I am such a fan of this series, and felt quite starstruck to be invited to be a guest!

Open Source is Good for Business

PHP UK, February 2022

An amazing opportunity to keynote a conference I’ve been attending and speaking at for *mumble* number of years! And on a topic close to my heart as well :)

Video and slides are below, and there are also some accompanying resources, because slide decks aren’t the right place for a lot of links

View Open source is good for business on Notist.

Scaling Developer Success

Peritus.ai Podcast, February 2022

This podcast episode was a fun one, talking about developer relations and what it means to me. You can find the episode here: https://scalingdevelopersuccess.buzzsprout.com/1884781/9922302-scaling-developer-success-with-lorna-mitchell-head-of-developer-relations-aiven

Developer Docs and Mental Health

Polyglot Podcast, January 2022

I was a guest on the Polyglot Podcast with my former colleague Ben Greenberg. We had a lovely chat covering topics from how important great content is, to developer mental health. You can find the episode here: https://dev.to/polyglot/writing-documentation-and-caring-about-developer-mental-health-with-lorna-mitchell

Adventocado

Adventocado, December 2021

It’s December again and I’m pleased to have been included in the Adventocado again this year!

https://avocados.dev/adventcado/2021/12/01/lorna-mitchell/