I was hit this week by a blizzard that brought 20+ inches of snow to my town in Pennsylvania. Fun! Can it just be spring yet? I need hiking, kayaking, campfires, and sun in my life. Agreed?
Shoutouts:
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This Tweetstorm about switching names with a male coworker.
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Listening:
Tech Done Right Episode 006: Using Software to Create Better Countries: Recovering Healthcare.gov with Andy Slavitt: How can we use software to build better countries? Andy Slavitt shares what he learned leading the recovery effort on Healthcare.gov in 2013 and 2014.
Greater Than Code Episode 023: Lorena Mesa: Lorena Mesa talks about politics and software, using Python for data collection, and communication and organization within communities.
Reading:
The Inhumane Workplace: 10 Red Flags to watch out for: Tanya Johnson has been speaking to people about what makes their workplaces good (or bad) recently, and after running a successful conference session about it, she wrote this article.
Learning to Speak Imperfectly: Gwendolyn Weston describes her struggle to speak out in group settings, especially on the spot. Her conclusion is that it is better to speak out imperfectly than not at all.
Conference Talk of the Week:
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“How To Make Your Game Just Completely Hilarious: The Stanley Parable” by William Pugh
A fun and silly talk from GDC 2015. The Stanley Parable co-creator William Pugh tries, in his own words, to “desperately attempt to deconstruct The Stanley Parable to find an excuse for its success.” He hilariously describes his top tips for making games funny.
Upcoming Events:
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React London:
Tuesday, March 28th: London, England
MagmaConf: (Save 30% Now! Includes conference, housing & meals)
Wednesday, March 29th – Friday, March 31st: Manzanillo, Colima Mexico
Render Conference: A 2-day conference for front-end developers – Scholarships Available! Apply by January 13th, 2017.
Thursday, March 30th – Friday, March 31st: Oxford, UK
AlterConf:
Saturday, April 1st: London, England
DjangoCon Europe – Financial Assistance Available! Apply by January 16th, 2017.
Monday, April 3rd – Friday, April 7th: Florence, Italy
An Event Apart: Seattle – Three Days of Design, Code, and Content:
Monday, April 3rd – Wednesday, April 5th: Seattle, Washington
Women Techmakers Montreal:
Saturday, April 8th – Sunday, April 9th: Montreal, Canada
Codeland (a CodeNewbie Conference):
Friday, April 21st – Saturday, April 22nd: New York City
Capital Go Language Conference:
Monday, April 24th – Tuesday, April 25th: Washington D.C.
Wonder Woman Tech: London
Thursday, April 27th – Friday, April 28th: London, England
DrupalCon – Scholarship Opportunities Available! Apply.
Monday, April 24th – Friday, April 28th: Baltimore, Maryland
csv,conf,v3: A community conference for data makers everywhere
Tuesday, May 2nd – Wednesday, May 3rd: Portland, Oregon
DevOpsDays Austin:
Thursday, May 4th – Friday, May 5th: Austin, Texas
Salt Lake City DevOpsDays:
Tuesday, May 16th – Wednesday, May 17th: Salt Lake City, Utah
Continuous Lifecycle London: DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Containerization
Wednesday, May 17th – Friday, May 19th: London
PyCon:
Wednesday, May 17th – Thursday, May 25th: Portland, Oregon
self.conference:
Friday, May 19th – Saturday, May 20th: Detroit, Michigan
ChefConf:
Monday, May 22nd – Wednesday, May 24th: Austin, Texas
Monitorama: An Open Source Monitoring Conference & Hackathon
Monday, May 22nd – Wednesday, May 24th: Portland, Oregon
PHP[tek]: The Premier PHP Conference
Wednesday, May 24th – Friday, May 26th: Atlanta, Georgia
Music City Code:
Thursday, June 1st – Saturday, June 3rd: Nashville, Tennessee
CircleCityCon 4.0:
Friday, June 9th – Sunday, June 11th: Indianapolis, Indiana
O’Reilly’s Fluent Conference: Building a Better Web
Monday, June 19th – Thursday, June 22nd: San Jose, California
O’Reilly’s Velocity Conference: Build Resilient Distributed Systems
Monday, June 19th – Thursday, June 22nd: San Jose, California
We RISE Women in Tech Conference: Super Early Bird Tickets Available until March 12th!
Friday, June 23rd – Saturday, June 24th: Atlanta Georgia
Kansas City Developer Conference:
Thursday, August 3rd – Friday, August 4th: Kansas City, Missouri
Write/Speak/Code:
Wednesday, August 23rd – Saturday, August 26th: Portland, Oregon
Call For Proposals:
!!Con – Closes March 20th
GORUCO 2017 – Closes March 28th 11:59 EDT
All Things Open – Closes March 28th
Øredev – Closes March 31st
Open Source Bridge – Closes March 31st
Code(her) Conference – Closes March 31st
7in7 Digital Nomad Conference: Closes in April
We RISE Women in Tech Conference – Closes April 01, 2017 02:59 EDT (Offers Travel Assistance!)
360|AnDev – Closes April 7th
DjangoCon – Closes April 11th, 08:00 EDT
ZendCon – Closes April 14th, 11:59 UTC
NCDevCon – Closes April 14th (Offers Hotel Accommodations!)
PyCon CZ – Closes April 17th (Financial Assistance Available!)
LISA17 – Closes April 24th, 11:50 PDT
Wonder Woman Tech – Long Beach: Closes June 1st; Washington DC: Closes September 15th
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