CFP - Call for Speakers
If you are interested in giving a presentation, please reach out to Gabor Szabo. If you don't have a connection to him yet then the best is probably via LinkedIn.
We are looking for presentation primarily in the topics for which we have calendars, but we won't shy away from other topic either.
What is needed?
Once we agreed upon a presentation this is what is needed to schedule it:
- A title.
- A few lines of description (teaser) about the topic. (Markdown and links are fine.)
- Expected length in minutes. (Usually 20-40 min, but we can discuss longer sessions.)
- The name of the guest speaker(s).
- A few lines of bio of the speaker(s). (Markdown and links are fine.)
- LinkedIn profile links and/or homepage links.
- Picture of the guest speaker(s). We can usually take this from the LinkedIn profile, but if that's not available or there is a preference to another one then provide that. (aspect ratio: 1:1)
Format
- 30 min of mingling in which people can introduce themselves. No recording.
- 20-40 min of presentation. People can ask questions via chat. Either the speaker can read or I can read for the speaker. This is recorded.
- When we are done recording the presentation we have another open mic session with more mingling and informal discussion. No recording.
Ideas for sessions
- Implement a feature or fix a bug in an open source project. (of the guest or some other project)
- Write a (small?) web application in one of the frameworks.
- Build a TUI, a Terminal User Interface
- Build a GUI, a Graphical User Interface
- Use a 3rd party library (crate in Rust). Any library. (What is the problems to solve? What might be the alternatives?)
- Use a certain database from Rust/Python/Perl. (e.g. SurrealDB, MongoDB, SQLite, etc.
- Build a game.
- How to do Machine Learning?
- How to use LLMs?