Re: [Wikitech-l] Tell my favorite conference about your Wikimedia tech

2014-07-14 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Deadline extended to Sunday 20 July. http://linux.conf.au/media/news/41 The conference organisers will notify you (about whether they accepted your talk) in September. linux.conf.au/cfp Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Roan Katt

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tell my favorite conference about your Wikimedia tech

2014-06-16 Thread Nikolas Everett
Man! I'd love to go ride in a balloon and give a talk but Auckland is so close to half way around the world On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Sumana Harihareswara < suma...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Thanks, Luis! And for Tyler or anyone else on this list who has the same > questions: > > Some

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tell my favorite conference about your Wikimedia tech

2014-06-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
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. T

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tell my favorite conference about your Wikimedia tech

2014-06-13 Thread Luis Villa
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Tyler Romeo 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" :)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tell my favorite conference about your Wikimedia tech

2014-06-13 Thread Tyler Romeo
lvi...@wikimedia.org Reply: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: June 13, 2014 at 10:05:14 To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject:  Re: [Wikitech-l] Tell my favorite conference about your Wikimedia tech On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:56 PM, Roan Kattouw

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tell my favorite conference about your Wikimedia tech

2014-06-13 Thread Luis Villa
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:56 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > On Jun 12, 2014 4:08 PM, "Luis Villa" wrote: > > I got a balloon ride the year I spoke. It was trumped the next year by a > > helicopter ride. Definitely an amazing trip. > > > Wow, when was that?! I got no such thing :) > > In 2012 they did

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tell my favorite conference about your Wikimedia tech

2014-06-12 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Jun 12, 2014 4:08 PM, "Luis Villa" wrote: > I got a balloon ride the year I spoke. It was trumped the next year by a > helicopter ride. Definitely an amazing trip. > Wow, when was that?! I got no such thing :) In 2012 they did take all the speakers a show (and dinner) at a staged Gold Rush tow

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tell my favorite conference about your Wikimedia tech

2014-06-12 Thread Luis Villa
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > they treat speakers well, I got a balloon ride the year I spoke. It was trumped the next year by a helicopter ride. Definitely an amazing trip. Luis ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.w

[Wikitech-l] Tell my favorite conference about your Wikimedia tech

2014-06-12 Thread Roan Kattouw
The linux.conf.au conference, which I have presented to and love going to, just opened up its call for talks: http://linux.conf.au/cfp . They want talks about all kinds of open source programming stuff, not just Linux: Trevor and I presented about ResourceLoader in 2012, and James and I presented