167 RR Speaking at Conferences

03:12 – Speaking at Conferences

• Ruby Rogues Episode #64: Presenting at Conferences

04:09 – Saron’s Experiences

• Saron at RailsConf

05:07 – What to Speak About 06:44 – Styles of Talk

• Mountain West Conference
• Wall of Text

09:09 – Guidelines for Certain Conferences

• Submitting Proposals

10:13 – Criteria for Speakers

• Selection Bias
• Brit Ruby
  • Why Brit Ruby Was Canceled on Github
• Noel Rappin: What I learned from reading 429 conference proposals

11:37 – Saron on Feedback

• Typecasting
• Ruby Rogues Episode #69 – Therapeutic Refactoring with Katrina Owen
• Katrina Owen: Therapeutic Refactoring Talk

15:26 – Noticing Diversity/Minorities

• Privledge
• Impostor Syndrome
• Anil Dash
  • A checklist of stupid things men will say when they find out I only retweet women
• The Flatiron School
• Adam Enbar
  • @aenbar

22:41 – Feeling Responsibility and Pressure 24:24 – Technical Talks vs. Other Types

• Brain Hacking

31:43 – Getting Past “Impostor Syndrome” 37:28 – Ideas for Talks 44:11 – Favorite Talks

• Coraline Ada Ehmke: Artisans and Apprentices
• DHH’s RailsConf Keynote
• Eileen Uchitelle: CRUD! The Consequences of Not Understanding How ActiveRecord Translates into MySQL
  • Eileen Uchitelle
• Ryan Florence: Bringing the Web Back to the Blind
  • Ryan Florence
• Ruby Rogues Episode #119 – Accessibility with Brian Hogan
  • Brian Hogan
• Jamison Dance: Hardware Hacking for JS Developers
  • Jamison Dance
• Midwest.io
• Jessica Kerr: Property-Based Testing for Better Code
  • Jessica Kerr
• Luigi Montanez & Ryan Resella: You'll Never Believe Which Web Framework Powers Upworthy
• Midwest.io YouTube Channel

51:06 – Pre-Speaker Checklists

Book Club

Refactoring: Ruby Edition: Ruby Edition (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) by Jay Fields, Shane Harvie, Martin Fowler, and Kent Beck

Refactoring in Ruby by William C. Wake and Kevin Rutherford

Next Week

Xiki with Craig Muth