Confrences

podcast – Mostly Erlang

“…when 100 people are listening to you for an hour, that’s 100 hours of people’s time devoted to what you have to say. If you can’t spend 5 or 10 hours preparing for them, thinking about them, and refining your points to best suit their needs, what does that say about your respect for your audience’s time? It says that your 5 hours are more important than 100 of theirs, which requires an ego larger than the entire solar system. And there is no doubt this disrespect will be obvious once you are on the stage.” – Confessions of a Public Speaker , Scott Berkun

Conferences, we talk about them almost every episode, but what are they like, how do you go to your first conference? How do you become a speaker at one and how can we make our conferences better? We talk at length about all of these things with a great crew of old timers and new folks

https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/mostly_erlang_48_confrences.mp3

Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/mostly_erlang_48_confrences.mp3

Panel

• Fred Hebert (@mononcqc)
• Zachary Kessin (@zkessin)
• Simon Thompson (@thompson_si)
• Simon St Lawrence (@simonstl)
• Irina Guberman (@irina_guberman)
• Francesco Cesarini (@FrancescoC)

Conferences

• Erlang Factory SF
• Erlang User Conference

Links

• Simon’s Confrence Blog Post
• Irina’s Chicago Talk
• Confessions of a Public Speaker
• Oakland JS Fest
• Wendy Chisholm at OSCON on different styles of attending conferences

Picks

• Simon Thompson’s blog
• Model View Culture (Fred)
• Geek Feminism Wiki On T-Shirts (Zach)
• Ansible (Irina)
• Elvis – Erlang Style Checker (Francesco)
• Monthly Family Budget (Zach)
• Dance Your PhD Disertation (Zach)