Thanks Sumana, I am forwarding this to the Cascadia email list. I for one might want to participate.

Pine

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:

SeaGL is a ~250-person open stuff conference in Seattle. They'd love talks by Wikimedians about tech and culture topics -- security, community, devops, getting-started, tales of woe, etc. Submit an idea by July 15th - and Deb Nicholson (see fwd) is totally happy to bounce ideas around with you and help you with your proposal. http://seagl.org/schedule/2013.html has last year's schedule.

Wikimedians are eligible to get travel/hotel subsidies to give talks at SeaGL: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS

Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Deb Nicholson deb@eximiousproductions.com Date: Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 3:54 PM Subject: Seattle event this fall, CFP open now To: Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org

Hi Sumana, I'm helping to organize the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference this year. We are particularly interested in having some fresh voices at SeaGL. I was wondering if you would help me reach out to Wikipedians who might be interested in speaking by forwarding the CFP info?

When: October 24 & 25 Who: The audience will be a mix of ~250 professionals, hobbyists and students. Where: The conference takes place in central Seattle -- a walkable neighborhood with great food and coffee that is easy to get to on public transportation. Other cool news: Our keynote is Karen Sandler, a longtime free software lawyer/activist/powerhouse.

Call for Participation: http://seagl.org/news/2014/06/20/CFP-Open.html

I'm happy to offer feedback on new-to-speaking people's proposals if that helps them get over the hump. Thanks for your help! Cheers, Deb _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l