{"id":655,"date":"2007-10-29T09:16:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T14:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/29\/conferences-and-co-presenters"},"modified":"2007-10-29T09:19:47","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T14:19:47","slug":"conferences-and-co-presenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/29\/conferences-and-co-presenters","title":{"rendered":"Conferences and co-presenters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.mysql.com\/common\/logos\/sakila-speaker.jpg\" align=\"left\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>I&#8217;m noticing some trends of late, as I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/25\/mysql-conference-2008-cfp-review-my-list-of-10\">go through<\/a> the proposals for the MySQL Conference &amp; Expo 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Rails: has it lost its steam? I&#8217;d like to see some talk submissions for Ruby and Ruby on Rails users, clearly. This stuff is still hot on the web (look at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bytebot\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dopplr.com\/traveller\/byte\">Dopplr<\/a>, for instance) and there&#8217;s lots more out there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m recommending a lot of people work on talks together. I don&#8217;t know if this will happen, but we have mashups in this <em>web 2.0<\/em> world, I don&#8217;t see why we don&#8217;t have talk mashups with 2 presenters. Having a co-presenter not only keeps your talk real, but keeps the momentum going (especially when your talk is scheduled early in the morning or after lunch). It can also help nurture yet-another-guru in the area. And if you&#8217;re worried about your language or presentation skills, having someone next to you to interject when required, probably helps, heaps.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think about having a co-presenter in your talk? Are you for mashups? Against mashups?<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I probably should plug that the CfP closes on <strong>Tuesday, October 30 2007<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.oreilly.com\/mysql2008\/\">Submit a talk<\/a>, already.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mysql\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">mysql<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mysql%20conference%20and%20expo\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">mysql conference and expo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mysqlconf2008\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">mysqlconf2008<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/rails\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">rails<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ruby%20on%20rails\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">ruby on rails<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ruby\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">ruby<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mashups\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">mashups<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/co-presenter\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">co-presenter<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Conferences%20and%20co-presenters&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F10%2F29%2Fconferences-and-co-presenters&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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