Speaker Guide
For general questions you can email speakers at heartofclojure dot eu. We'll share contact numbers for urgent matters closer to the conference date.
See the Attendee Guide
We're putting you up in the Park Inn by Radisson, right next to the train station, and a ten minute walk to the venue.
- Thursday 1 August
- people arrive
- activities in the afternoon (guided city walk)
- speaker's dinner
- pre-conference get together at Oude Markt
- Friday 2 August
- First conference day at Hal5
- No fixed evening schedule, but we'll have suggestions
- Saturday 3 August
- Second conference day at Hal5
- Sunday 4 August
- Venue is available for open source hacking
- Activities (Hapje Tapje)
- Clean up and go home
We'll be using https://activities.heartofclojure.eu to offer these various activities. You (speakers) as well as attendees can also add your own activities. This can be pretty much anything. Some ideas: board games, morning yoga, work on a specific project during the hack day, sauna, ultimate frisbee, a museum visit, a brewery visit. You get the picture.
Also note that there are limited spots for the guided city tour, this is something we really want to offer our speakers, so sign up for that as soon as you can if that sounds like something you'd enjoy. The guide is a great guy with a sense of humour who knows the city and its history well.
We'll have a speaker's dinner Thursday evening, after the city tour which you are all invited to join, and before meeting up with the rest of the attendees for a drink at the "Oude Markt" city square.
The venue will be fairly bright, as it's not possible to properly darken it. Keep that in mind when designing your slides.
- Use dark text on light backgrounds
- Make sure you have enough contrast
The projector we're getting has a maximum resolution of 1920x1200 (16:10 or WUXGA), so prepare your slides for wide screen.
Avoid being negative about other technologies and communities. This is a common way to appeal to the in-group, but it's not a good look. We will have a broad range of attendees from various backgrounds, and it really sucks to have the thing you use every day be ridiculed on stage.
See also this post about contempt culture and this great article about negativity in programmer culture.
Avoid addressing the audience, or any group of people, as "guys". We know American pop culture has made this a common idiom, but a lot of people don't identify themselves as "guys", and it's a small effort to use more inclusive language.
Try "Hi everyone", "y'all", "folks", "people", etc.