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Adrienne Lowe - Bake the Cookies, Wear the Dress: Connecting with Confident Authenticity

Are you interested in speaking at a tech conference, but you're unsure how you might share relevant technical information in an engaging way? Are you in a position of leadership or mentorship in open source and want to be more approachable, accessible, and collaborative? In a fun and light-hearted talk, learn actionable suggestions for inspiring others with your own confident authenticity.

https://us.pycon.org/2016/schedule/presentation/2082/

PyCon 2016

May 29, 2016
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  1. Haven’t we met before? Organizer, PyLadiesATL and PyATL Django Girls

    Atlanta organizer Editor, Your Django Story Tech editor, O’Reilly’s Head First Python, 2nd ed Former Director of Advancement, Django Software Foundation (Django) Current Director of Sponsorship, Write the Docs Full-time in support at myEmma.com
  2. Forget about it Don’t look too feminine! You won’t be

    taken seriously. Don’t use too many domestic analogies. They won’t resonate with your largely male audience. Aren’t you trying to move into tech? Why do you keep mentioning your cooking experience?
  3. “...share your real experiences and your path. A good talk

    is more about relating and sharing than being ‘groundbreaking’.” -- @jasonamyers: Author, O'Reilly's Essential SQLAlchemy; PyTennessee, Nodevember, & PyNash Co-Organizer
  4. Connecting with Authenticity 101: What do you already do well?

    How’d you learn how to do that thing?
  5. to

  6. With a forty year career in the software industry, Lars

    Lohn is an eccentric, skeptic and heretic. Lars embraces complexity, shows no fear in the face of threading, prefers recursion over iteration, and thinks dependency injection is the solution to everything. He is the principal engineer behind the Firefox crash reporting system, Socorro, and has been full-time with Mozilla since 2008.
  7. A mediocre programmer ? Jacob Kaplan-Moss, PyCon 2015 Keynote Inventor

    of Django Co-creator of Django “Person who started working on Django a year and half after Adrian and Simon created it”
  8. R U OK? Russell Keith Magee, DjangoCon US 2015 Former

    President of the Django Software Foundation (DSF) (Psst: Meet him at the PyBee booth!)
  9. We can't keep telling others that we're not born with

    it, but making it look like we are. We can't have it both ways.
  10. Daily questions in the life of one SR Dev How

    do you install this? How do I create a query for x? How should I get started? I’ve heard about y, but I don’t understand it. I’ve never actually tried this by myself. Is it difficult? How do you do it?
  11. rica, just wrapped in PDX! rague, September 18 - 20

    Psssst: Join us in Prague - September 18 - 20!
  12. How I built a power debugger out of the standard

    library and things I found on the internet by Doug Hellmann