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🔎Julia Evans🔍

Feb 13, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X

!!Con is a conference where we take 2 days to celebrate the joy, excitement, and surprise (!!!) of programming. Our speakers often:

- explain the basics of an idea!
- show a delightful demo!
- tell a story!

I'd love it if you submitted a talk:
bangbangcon.com/give-a-talk.ht…

some more facts about speaking at !!Con (May 9-10 in NYC)

- $256 honorarium
- we can pay for your travel if your employer won't
- all proposals are anonymous
- we often accept talks from first-time speakers
- the deadline to submit is March 1 :D

➡ ➡ bangbangcon.com/give-a-talk.ht…

I'd especially love a talk submission from you if any of these are true:

- you find that people like you are underrepresented at conferences
- you've never given a talk before
- we've rejected a talk submission from you before.

bangbangcon.com/give-a-talk.ht…

Something that's different about !!Con talk proposals is that we require a *timeline* of how you'll use your 10 minutes (anonymous proposals mean we need a bit more detail to know that it's going to be a great talk)

Here's how to write a great timeline: composition.al/blog/2017/06/3…

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