<\/center>\nI drove down to San Francisco yesterday with my co-presenter Andy<\/a> for LugRadio Live USA 2008<\/a>. Between presenting and booth duty, I was able to see Matthew Garrett<\/a> give a fantastic talk about laptops and power management (and all the things that go wrong!), and Emma Hogbin<\/a> give her talk, “Form an orderly queue, ladies.”<\/p>\n
<\/center><\/p>\nI really enjoyed Emma’s presentation, and especially was impressed that women attendees made up more than half of her HICK Tech<\/a> conference. It was an unexpected, and really inspiring achievement. She also mentioned geekspeakr.com<\/a>, a great new service that Brenda Wallace<\/a> set up for cataloging women speakers. I can’t wait for her talk at OSCON.<\/p>\n One of her main points was that increasing the number of female speakers at conferences – regardless of their marketability (my words, not hers) or geek-cred – was the key to increasing female attendance. Later on, she mentioned that she also had enlisted the help of a couple key matriarchs in the community to help ensure the participation from the community. Conference organizers should pay attention to what she’s done. <\/p>\n She knits. And she sews. With fabric<\/a> that I love. So much that I made a pillowcase out using a piece of it: <\/p>\n I even made that pink piping myself!<\/p>\n This evening I had a great dinner at Out the Door in the Westfield center, and then spent a few hours hanging out at the Google after-party. Had a lovely evening. Finally time for a good night’s sleep!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I drove down to San Francisco yesterday with my co-presenter Andy for LugRadio Live USA 2008. Between presenting and booth duty, I was able to see Matthew Garrett give a fantastic talk about laptops and power management (and all the … Continue reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[75,77,79,76,78],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","tag-emma-hogbin","tag-lugradio-live","tag-lugradiolive","tag-matthew-garett","tag-thesethings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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