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How do you develop an idea for a talk, determine the conferences to pitch, actually deliver the talk, and whether or not it’s even worth doing? Joshua Comeau writes on Medium: I’m still very much at the beginning of my career. I’m only ~5 years into what will likely be a 40-year career, so I’m only about 1/8th through! That thought is simultaneously liberating and dizzying; it means I don’t have to feel rushed when it comes to making the most of every available opportunity, but it also means I have no clue what’s ahead. Conference-speaking is a worthwhile endeavor, but it’s one heck of a bumpy ride, and not always worth it. I’ll continue to prepare talks — as long as folks still want to hear what I have to say… Joshua ends with an invitation … 👏 I encourage you to give it a shot. Feel free to reach out to me, I’m always happy to give your proposal a quick read :)

Kevin Ball — panelist and frequent emcee of JS Party, and Tim Smith — Senior Producer here at Changelog were on location at O’Reilly’s Fluent Conference and Velocity Conference for the past few days. Here’s a sneak peek of our coverage!

André Staltz: I’ve just given my third programming talk where I use only my IDE (integrated development environment) for live coding and no other presentation tool. I noticed the audiences were very pleased with these talks, and I think it’s correlated to using an IDE and not a slides program. If you’ve ever watched one of André’s talks, you know he gives good talks regardless of whether or not he’s using an IDE. But he makes a good case for their use in general and goes in to great detail* on how to do it well. *even explaining each individual editor setting and why they were selected

I’ll be at ZEIT Day tomorrow hanging with the community, recording some podcasts, and shooting some pictures and video — I might even get a chance to bust out our drone to get some awesome shots of the beautiful Palace of Fine Arts Theatre. Are you planning to be there? Make sure you say hi.

A great idea/initiative kicked off by Kitze: Did you like anything in particular about a conference? Did you hate anything? Let’s make organizing conferences an easier task. As a conference co-organizer myself, I know first-hand that we’re always looking to harvest good ideas (and avoid bad ones) from other conferences. Having a community-created list for this kind of knowledge will be super useful. But we need your help: The initial document is pretty one-sided, biased, and based on my own experience and perspective. It’s probably missing tons of things. That’s why it’s on GitHub and it’s not a Medium article. Please help me cover everything and make this document amazing 😍️

Join us at OSCON in Austin, TX. We have free passes!

We’re excited to be at All Things Open this year in partnership with the organizers of the conference as well as Opensource.com to produce a series of podcasts around this great community.

The fourth and final (for now) season of Beyond Code is now ready for your viewing pleasure!   We love going to conferences like this, cameras in hand, ready to capture the heart and spirt of the awesome community. We make friends. We get some hugs. And we have a ton of fun. Run a conference? Changelog Films can help make it even more awesome. Get in touch!