Resources WG | July 2025 Update

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The Developer Relations Foundation is an open community of practitioners who aim to elevate the professional practice of developer relations. The Resources Working Group was chartered to aggregate assets and resources that can aid in this mission.

This monthly update shares progress on some of these initiatives.

✅ TODO

As a member of the working group or manager under the DevRel Foundation, we need your participation and engagement.

• Review Tools Catalog PR #1 which will be foundation of the initial 1.0 data model and add comments, suggestions, thoughts.
• Help us add additional personas to the Persona Library that represent your program or an open-source project.
• Join next month's working group call.

📍MILESTONES

The next milestone for the working group is a 1.0 release of the Tools Catalog. The full list of Working Group milestones can be found here:
https://github.com/DevRel-Foundation/wg-resource-aggregation/milestones

You can find the Working Group quarterly goals in this document:
https://github.com/DevRel-Foundation/wg-resource-aggregation/blob/main/GOALS.md

📞 WORKING GROUP CALL

How-to join the working group calls.

• we use the Linux Foundation Zoom instance
• to get invites for your calendar, you need to join the distribution list
• agenda and minutes are kept on GitHub Discussions: 2025-07-02 | Monthly Call #91

Review the working group calendar or subscribe for your local time zone:
https://lists.dev-rel.org/g/wg-resource-aggregation/calendar

⚒️ TOOLS CATALOG (0.0 Sandbox)

The Tools Catalog is a DevRel Foundation (DRF) initiative to collect software and tools that aid in completion of developer relations activities.

Requirements Discussion:
#64

Request for Comment (RFC) for Tools Catalog Data Schema:
https://github.com/DevRel-Foundation/tools-catalog/pulls

👤 PERSONA LIBRARY (1.0 Incubating)

The Persona Library is a DevRel Foundation (DRF) initiative to collect resources related to the development of personas. It consists of a Reference Library and a Persona Library System (PLS) for standardizing persona definitions with a schema.

You can find all the details in the repository:
https://github.com/DevRel-Foundation/persona-library

• Review the open issues with the labels good-first-issue and resource:personas. This is a place where you can find ideas to make your first contribution.
• Help us evangelize and advocate for using the persona library in DevRel programs. Take a look and provide feedback.

📈 PROGRESS

Persona Library

• Stargazers: 5 (+4)
• 2 persona sets (+0)
• 24 persona definitions (+0)
• 34 resources including books, articles, and videos (+0)
• 13 terms in glossary (+0)
• 2 tutorial guides (+0)

Tools Catalog

• Stargazers: 1 (+1)
• 15 tool definitions (+15)
• 6 jobs to be done categories (+6)
• 0 learning resources for tools (+0)

Projects

• Issues: 18/24 (+4/+0)

Working Group

• Mailing list subscribers: 70 (+1)
• Contributors: 4 (+0)
• Stargazers: 12 (+2)