Rabea's view of developer advocates

Geertjan Wielenga: As you don't have "developer advocate" on your business card, when you go to conferences, how do you view the developer advocates? Do you see a difference between the way that official developer advocates present their content versus people who are not official?

Rabea Gransberger: I'm not sure that I would actually notice the difference if I didn't know that they were official developer advocates. It's pretty much the same.

It might only be different for people who go into new roles. I never feel that the developer advocates are presenting their material like some of the speakers of sponsored talks. They always try to sell their product, but developer advocates don't do that too much.

Geertjan Wielenga: Could you explain a little bit about sponsored talks at conferences to draw out that distinction?

Rabea Gransberger: I usually never go to sponsored talks because I think much of it is just marketing...