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Linda Lian: AWS launched its developer community programs around 2017

Linda Lian · 20VC: How To Deliver Feedback with Compassion and Clarity, WTF Are Values Really and How To Instill Them & Raising $50M+ From Index and Greylock but Remaining in Stealth for 12 Months with Linda Lian, Co-Founder & CEO @ CommonRoom · Apr 1, 2021 · at 5:50

Linda Lian, co-founder and CEO of Common Room, previously led product marketing for serverless computing and open source at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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“This was around 2017 when we really started building all of the developer community engagement programs that AWS still has today, including our developer Slack, our Reddit engagement, our Stack Overflow engagement, open sourcing product roadmaps on GitHub.”

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Amazon Web Services began building its primary developer community engagement programs—including its developer Slack, Reddit and Stack Overflow engagement, and open-source GitHub product roadmaps—around 2017.

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The claim states that AWS began building its developer community engagement programs—including Slack, Reddit, Stack Overflow, and GitHub open-source product roadmaps—around 2017. Evidence shows that AWS developer advocates and product managers began actively engaging on Reddit (e.g., r/aws) and Stack Overflow around 2017–2018, and developer Slack channels emerged during this period as well. However, formal public product roadmaps on GitHub did not launch until December 2018 (starting with the AWS Container Services roadmap), and official Stack Overflow community programs (Collectives) launched in 2021.

AWS developer advocacy on Reddit (r/aws) and third-party developer forums expanded starting in 2017.
AWS launched its first public open-source product roadmap on GitHub (AWS Container Services) in December 2018.
AWS product teams began setting up official open-source Slack channels (such as #samdev) in 2018–2019.

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[1] techtarget.com [2] github.com [3] github.com [4] amazon.com [5] reddit.com [6] reddit.com [7] amazon.com [8] aboutamazon.com

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