A visual model for understanding and communicating the internal complexity and cross-functional nature of Developer Relations (DevRel). Built to help DevRel teams align with stakeholders, plan strategically, and demonstrate impact more clearly.
This repository contains:
- The presentation from my talk at DevRelCon 2025
- Visual examples of each variation the model
- Editable files so you can adapt the model for your own organization
- Browse the
/modelfolder for images and source files - Download the .drawio file for the template you would like to edit
- Open the downloaded file in draw.io or diagrams.net to adapt the model
model/– Draw.io + PNGs of each model variationpresentation/– Slide deck presented at DevRelCon 2025images/- Repository imagesLICENSE– CC BY-NC 4.0 LicenseREADME.md– You’re here
If you use this model, or even just sit with it for a bit, I'd love your feedback. What made sense? What didn't? What did/would you add or change? I truly believe this kind of work gets better when it’s shared and tested in the real world. This isn’t a final answer—it’s a living tool.
- Open an issue
- Tell me your thoughts directly via email (knmeiss [at] gmail [dot] com)
- Suggest improvements via pull request
This project is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.
Feel free to copy, adapt, and share these materials for non-commercial use, with appropriate credit. Commercial use is not permitted without permission.