Thanks, Luis! And for Tyler or anyone else on this list who has the same questions:
Sometimes I come up with a talk idea by asking myself, "What do I know now that I wish I'd known a year ago?" This is a way to think about what you've learned that a lot of other people don't know as well as you. That's basically how I thought of "A Few Python Tips". To practice it in front of a small crowd first, I'm doing a tech talk this Thursday: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2014-06-19 before I talk next week at Open Source Bridge.
To give a Wikimedia tech talk about your topic: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event
And, just like with submitting patches, don't reject *yourself* before the conference organizers have a chance to. ;-)
-Sumana
On 06/13/2014 10:52 AM, Luis Villa wrote:
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
I’ve always wanted to submit a cool MediaWiki talk to these conferences, but I have no idea what I’d talk about (or whether I’m even experienced enough to talk about anything at a conference).
The answer to that second part is "yes" :) LCA is not TED :) Background on their speaker selection process and what makes for a good submission (useful for any conference, not just LCA): http://opensource.com/life/14/1/get-your-conference-talk-submission-accepted
Are there any guidelines on what would make a good talk?
http://speaking.io/plan/an-idea/ ?
[All of speaking.io is useful.]
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