I try to speak at (primarily Open Source) conferences as frequently as possible. Below are slides, notes and (where available) recordings of my past presentations.
Talks currently in the repertoire
I sometimes get asked to talk at the last minute. There’s no time to write something new (it takes me a looong time to write a talk), so folks have to select from something on hand. Here are the titles I currently have ready to present with a day’s notice or so:
- 5 Ways You Can Hire Better
- A 10-ish Step Program for Great Tech Talks (multi-hour workshop; cannot be shortened)
- A Crash Course in Tech Management
- A Remote Chance of Success
- Business of Community
- Care and Feeding of a Healthy Job Hunt (2+ hour workshop; cannot be shortened)
- Cutting Some Slack: Decoding IRC
- Failure: Why It Happens & How to Benefit from It
- Find and Choose an Open Source Project
- Have It Your Way: Maximizing Drive-Thru Contributions
- How to successfully enter the FOSS emerging market
- Industry of Cool
- Orienteering for Managers
- Passing the Baton: Succession planning for FOSS leadership
- Preparing For Your First FOSS Contribution
- Tech Conference Speaking: Abstracts & CFPs & Organisation (oh my)
- This is What Winning Looks Like
- You Want to Contribute to Open Source, But…Why?
2018
Open Source 101, Columbia, SC
- You Want to Contribute to Open Source, But…Why? (plenary keynote)
- Find and Choose an Open Source Project
The Lead Developer, Austin
Training for a client
- Conference Preparation
Open Source 101, Raleigh
- You Want to Contribute to Open Source, But…Why? (plenary keynote)
- Preparing For Your First FOSS Contribution
FOSDEM Community devroom
2017
Training for a client
- Tech Conference Speaking: Abstracts & CFPs & Organisation (oh my)
North Bay Python
- Technical Speaker Training Workshop
LISA 17
All Things Open
SeaGL
Velocity NYC
- Find your way: Orienteering for managers (with Deb Nicholson)
Open Source Entrepreneur Network Symposium
- How to successfully enter the FOSS emerging market
Open Source Summit, North America
/dev/world/2017
- Technical Speaker Training Workshop
PyCon AU
OpenWest
- Internet Archive: Universal Access. Open APIs
- Passing the Baton: Succession planning for project leadership
Write the Docs PDX
PDX DevOps
OSCON 2017
FLOSS UK Spring 2017
ConFoo Montreal 2017
SCALE 15x
linux.conf.au 2017
PDX Linux
- The Business of Community
2016
LISA16
- Failure: Why It Happens & How to Benefit from It
SeaGL 2016
- Cutting Some Slack: Decoding IRC
All Things Open 2016
- Cutting Some Slack: Decoding IRC
OSCON London
- The Business of Community
DevOps Days Boise
- Keynote: Industry of Cool
PyDX
- Care and Feeding of a Healthy Job Hunt
/dev/world/2016
- A 10 Step Program for Great Tech Talks
PyCon AU 2016
- Have It Your Way: Maximizing Drive-Thru Contributions
OpenWest 2016
- A Crash Course in Tech Management
- Have It Your Way: Maximizing Drive-Thru Contributions
YAPC::NA 2016
- Have It Your Way: Maximizing Drive-Thru Contributions
- Cutting Some Slack: Decoding IRC
SouthEast LinuxFest 2016
- Cutting Some Slack: Decoding IRC
- Internet Archive: Universal Access. Open APIs
OSCON Austin 2016
- Have It Your Way: Maximizing Drive-Thru Contributions
LinuxFest Northwest 2016
- Have It Your Way: Maximizing Drive-Thru Contributions
linux.conf.au 2016
- Internet Archive: Universal access. Open APIs
SCaLE 14x
- SCALE Speaker Training Seminar
2015
FOSSETCON 2015
- Care & Feeding of a Healthy Job Hunt
- Crash Course in Tech Management
OSCON EU 2015
- Crash Course in Tech Management
All Things Open 2015
- Internet Archive: Universal access. Open APIs
LinuxCon North America 2015
- Internet Archive: Universal access. Open APIs
OSCON Portland 2015
- Internet Archive: Universal access. Open APIs
Open Source Bridge 2015
- Care & Feeding of a Healthy Job Hunt
YAPC::NA 2015
- Failure: Why it happens & How to benefit from it
2014
FOSSETCON 2014
- Failure: Why it happens & How to benefit from it
- Slides & video not available for this edition of the presentation.
OSCON 2014
- Crash Course in Tech Management
- How We Went Remote
Open Source Bridge 2014
- Crash Course in Tech Management
- Internet Archive: More than the Wayback Machine
- FAIL is Not a Four-Letter Word (unconference session)
2013
Open Source Bridge 2013
- FAIL is Not a Four-Letter Word
- No, I Won’t Contribute to Your Open Source Project
- All About Coffee (with the BrewPony team)
- This was an unconference session. There are no slides or other resources available.
2012
O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) 2012
- Marketing: Necessary (But Not Evil)
Open Source Bridge 2012
- A Crash Course in Tech Management
- How We Went Remote
- Session page
- Slides and notes
- MP3 audio recording
- I am very unhappy with how this one turned out. I didn’t leave myself enough time to practice and edit the presentation. Needless to say, that was the last time I made that mistake.
2011
Open Source Bridge 2011
- Marketing: You’re Soaking In It!
- Open Sourcing Your Legacy Project: A Game of Adventure, Danger and Low Cunning
- Session page
- Slides and notes
- MP3 audio recording
- This session had very few slides/notes and was primarily a led discussion.