# DevRels Office Hours ## 2023/03/02 Discussing [Developer Portal](http://tutorials.cosmos.network/) & [IDA](http://interchainacademy.cosmos.network/), in the short term & medium-long term - historical context - tight coupling dev portal/ida - confusion as a result - no clear separation of concerns - entry point for resource retrievability - (guided) onboarding educational material - ... - What is the vision for the developer portal? - Entry point for the Cosmos developer - Content... what? (CometBFT, IBC != Cosmos SDK) - Linking to external content... what? - Who maintains the platform? - Who creates content? - Who maintains content? - What is the vision for the Academy? - How active do we want the education partner to be involved? - How do we position IDA in bigger Cosmos education landscape? - How proactive do we want to be to offer graduates support post-graduation? - Content creation/maintenance and relationship to dev portal content - Maria update B9: - 2022: problem with B9 contributing content, not being product experts - ideally technical documentation comes from product teams - 2023: content creation is team's concern (idea) - 1 cohort confirmed, possible to have more - goal of academy was previously unclear - course designed as if it were a paid course, but it's ICF funding - investigating new models towards sustainability - Dev portal & technical documentation audiences? - Who is Dev Portal customer? - MD? Devrel lead? - The ultimate goals and business model for the Acadmey long terms remains a point of active investigation ## 2023/02/09 - Update on DevRels strategy proposal - Maria - Marko, Sam at Binary - Thane at Informal - Milan at Informal- Hub - Interchain DevEx Group - New members from CosmosBD TG group - Scope DevRels Office Hours vs DevEx - Invite SDK, CometBFT & Hub - Collaboration on Events/Content - Hackathons - Code along series (?) - Consensus - who goes? 1h slot - Developer portal - ICF domains? - Migrating from Vuepress, Ibo suggesting Gatsby - External collaborators - ~~B9 no longer responsible for the portal~~ - Q&A => Github Discussions?