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Speaking at PyConThe How and the Why
Cris Ewing
@crisewingcewing
The How and the Why
The Why and the How
Why
Why Not?
FEAR
“Kill Your Heroes”
–Julie Pagano
“What I mean by kill your heroes is killing the imaginary version of them that we have created
in our minds.”
Why Not?
Why?
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“Public speaking is for introverts”
–A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
“…people you should meet come find you. It's easy to talk with them, because you already
began the conversation with your presentation.”
“It gives me a way to learn”
–Pamela Fox
“After I give a talk on a particular technology, that gives developers in the audience an
opportunity to come up and tell me about their experience with that technology, and often
share different solutions from what I shared”
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–Pamela Fox
‘When I had to put together a talk for a conference, it would force me to take a moment
to stop working and just think, asking myself questions like “What is it that I’ve learnt that I think is worth sharing? What have I liked or disliked about the technology we picked?”.’
Poetic APIs
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–A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
“A talk about software doesn't have to be a tour de force. It's just the campfire we gather around
so we can be together..”
• PyDX (http://pydx.org/)
• VanPyDay (http://www.vanpyday.com/)
• PyBay (http://www.pybay.com/)
• PyOhio (http://pyohio.org/)
• PyTennessee (https://www.pytennessee.org/)
• PyData (http://pydata.org/)
• SciPy (https://conference.scipy.org/)
• Plone Conference (https://ploneconf.org)
• PuPPy (https://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/)
• Seattle PyLadies (https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-PyLadies/)
• Seattle Ansible Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Ansible-Meetup/)
• Seattle SaltStack Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-SaltStack-Meetup/)
• Python Data Science (https://www.meetup.com/seattle-python-data-science/)
• SeattleDAML (http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-DAML/)
• …
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The Why and the How
How
How
Pick A Venue
Start Local
Move Regional
Shoot for the Stars!
How
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How Pick A Venue
Pick a Topic
“lively conversations over random observations"
–Ashe Dryden
“A good rule of thumb is if a bunch of people have more questions than answers (or more
feels than facts), it'll make an interesting talk..”
–Ashe Dryden
“[speakers will] have the advantage of having the fresh knowledge and experiences of a
beginner so they know what might trip other people up.”
“Puts Butts in Seats”
–Ned Jackson Lovely
“The easiest way to judge coherence is to consider your talk as a story, with a narrative. Is
there a beginning, middle, and end, with a theme that ties it all together? That's coherent.”
How Pick A Venue
Pick A Topic
How Pick A VenuePick A Topic
Make a Proposal
• Duration
• Audience
• Level
• Objectives
• Summary
• Outline (with timings)
http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2013/example-pycon-proposals/
How Pick A VenuePick A Topic
Make A Proposal
How Pick A VenuePick A Topic
Make A ProposalPractice, Practice, Practice
Repetition
“educate your audience"
–Ned Batchelder
“Your listeners have a lot of other things on their mind. Make your content easy to digest. Yes,
they are technical, and yes, they are interested, but they are also human, and in an unusual environment. Do what you can to catch and
hold their attention, and don't make them work too hard to follow along”
How Pick A VenuePick A Topic
Make A ProposalPractice, Practice, Practice
How Pick A VenuePick A Topic
Make A ProposalPractice, Practice, Practice
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The Why and the How
• Julie Pagano: http://juliepagano.com/blog/2013/11/02/it-s-dangerous-to-go-alone-battling-the-invisible-monsters-in-tech/
• A. Jesse Jiryu Davis: https://emptysqua.re/blog/tech-talks-are-campfires-jesses-three-reasons-you-should-speak-at-pycon/
• Pamela Fox: http://blog.pamelafox.org/2013/08/why-do-i-speak-at-conferences.html
• Eric Rose: Poetic APIshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQYnFyG7A8c
• Ashe Dryden: https://www.ashedryden.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-speaking-at-conferences
• Ned Jackson Lovely: http://www.njl.us/essays/pycon-talks/
• Brandon Rhodes: http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2013/example-pycon-proposals/
• Allison Kaptur: https://github.com/akaptur/pycon-proposals
• Ned Batchelder: http://nedbatchelder.com/text/presentationtips.html
• PyLadies: http://www.pyladies.com/blog/speaking-pycon/
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