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List of tech conferences, podcasts, videos, people

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Events

Videos

Podcasts

People

SETUP

virtualenv venv -p python3
source venv/bin/activate
pip install --editable .

Generate web site (and check format)

$ python3 bin/generate.py

Development server

export FLASK_APP=cat.app
export FLASK_DEBUG=1
flask run --host 0.0.0.0 --port 5000

http://localhost:5000/

TODO

These are just ideas, not necessary something I really want to do :-)

• serve the site from JSON files

• improve the search for people

• improve the search for videos

• CAT show number of videos in the list of people

• CAT: tags should be all lower case in the files and we should have the real case in the tags file. That will make the code simpler

• For each event series find out if they have an annuncement mailing list to get notified for the new event, cfp, videos available. Add this information to the data/series.json file Talk to the organizers and tell them why we would like to get such notifications.

• Describe the use of the site.

• Convert the whole site to be dynamically generated from json files.

• Convert all the data files to JSON, beautidy them?

• Create skeleton for each file-type?

• Include picture of each speaker?

• Include logo of each event?

• Change the sitemap.xml creating code to use the date of the files for real date.

• For sitemap of the collection pages, use the timestamp of the most recent event in that list.

• For sitemap of videos, use the date of the file.

• Update the description of the data and the collection process.

• Search: limit the search to people/videos/events/podcasts

• Search for videos limit the search by date limit the search by language (for videos)

• Weekly Newsletter with information about events. The subscriber should be able to select filter by countries and/or by topics. The e-mail itself is an HTML message that we can also build on the website.

• Add Facebook image code to video pages

• Improve the UI of the web site, look at what pyvideo has nice. Font Awesome

• Link from event to other events in the series.

• Another potential use of the data: Help conference and meetup organizers find potential speakers.

• List people by location (city, state, country)

• List people by subjects (tags for which they spoke)

• Add "language" field to the videos and allow the user to filter the results to selected language(s). (There are talk in French, German, Spanish, etc.)

• Include the number of videos in the https://codeandtalk.com/people list

• Create list of people with 0 in everything bin/people.py

• List of people who only have their name in the file

• List of people missing twitter/github

TODO Check for events:

• http://2016.geecon.cz/

• http://www.qualitysoftware.com.au/ http://www.qualitysoftware.com.au/atd2k16/

• http://europeantestingconference.eu/2017/ https://twitter.com/EuroTestingConf

• http://codecooperative.org/

• https://central.wordcamp.org/

• https://wpcampus.org/

• https://therichwebexperience.com/conference/clearwater/2016/12/home

• http://www.cue.org/conference

• http://www.nodetogether.org/

• https://atscaleconference.com/

• https://jsconf.co/2015-Videos/

• http://rubycentral.org/railsconf

• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp2Tsbjd3P8itnBHUNHi82A/playlists

• https://github.com/nodeconf

http://visualized.com/2014/conference/ http://visualized.com/2015 http://visualized.com/2016

Other sources

https://techpoint.ng/2016/09/14/hackjos-2016-2/

Promotion

After watching videos, they might be promoted via various channels.

• Posted to the appropriate subredit at https://www.reddit.com/
• Posted at HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/
• Marked as "featured" and included in one of the blasters: https://codeandtalk.com/blasters
• Tweeted via https://twitter.com/codeandtalk
• Posted on the Facebook page: https://facebook.com/CodeAndTalk

Some Advice to Conference organizers

Just a few random thoughts as I index the videos and the conferences.

• If you record lightning talks, split them up to individual videos. That allows people to watch one short video while at work.

• Include the names of the speakers in the filenames.

• Keep the web site of the previous editions of your event, or at least keep the list of talks and list of people.

• The best would be to have well defined URLs. Some conferences have subdomains per year: http://2017.someevent.com/ Other have them in subdirectory: http://someevent.com/2017/ Both are good. The best if the main page only redirects to the current event or holds some content, but each event has its own subsite. Make sure every page of the earlier events have a prominent link at the top linking to the home page of the conference (which can then redirect to the current or upcoming event).

• On the speaker page include the Twitter and GitHub IDs of each speaker.

Ideas for Conferences and other events

• Givng a talk (ok, this is the obvious)

• Improv sessions https://codeandtalk.com/v/agile-india-2016/3-minute-improv-games-to-improve-your-teams-by-wayde-stallmann

• Matching up mentors and mentees https://codeandtalk.com/v/clojure-conj-2016/overcoming-the-challenges-of-mentoring-kim-crayton The idea would be to do a much shorter talk and spend a lot more time on matching mentors and mentees.

• Building a startup around conversations and communities https://codeandtalk.com/v/agile-india-2016/building-a-startup-around-conversations-and-communities-by-zainab-bawa

• Mostly after hours:

  • BOF (Birds of Feather) sessions - people can organize meetings based on a specific subject.
  • Dinner with all the attendees
  • Speaker's dinner (can provide a place to socialize)
  • Hackathons - these usually happen on the day(s) before or after the conference, but not during the conference. They also seem to be a bit solitary programming.
  • Game night (playing board games, cards) just socializing

• Scavenger hunt (described in AB Testing podcast episode 48-49 https://github.com/szabgab/ab-testing