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I was hired as a technical community manager/evangelist. I've chosen to take on neither of those titles in the few months that I've been in this position. I've been a dev since high school and still consider myself to be one (although sometimes it can be a while in between chances to write code).

I put "Vim Wielder / Cat Herder" on my business card. Turns out the cats I herd tend more often to be executives than developers. Developers are great: you show them a great product and help them to use it and they're on your side. Helping executives understand how tech community works can be difficult at times.

I can't comment on what particular brand of developer evangelist Adria Richards was, but there are many kinds. I'd hope that she was one who writes code and who contributes to thte community rather than just selling to it.