Weekly community Check-In #49 - Tech conferences recommendations

[cesswairimu]

We all at Public Lab 🎈 - learn, grow, work, brainstorm ideas, contribute together so why not share about our weekly goals and the awesome work we have done at Public Lab with each other, so we can support and collaborate with each other better. We have a Community Check-In each week, where every community member can share something about their work from the past week and about their current week's goal 🎯 . You are also welcome to share fun-fact 😄 , new ideas 💡 , your learning goals ☑️.

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Tech conferences to attend 🎤

I have had a couple of folks reach out asking for tech conferences to attend. This week, lets please give recommendations to great open conferences that people can attend. Give a name and city/country where the conference is happening. This may be of great help to past and current Outreachy and RGSoC interns who have a stipend for conference travel and also other contributors looking out for conferences. Who knows? you might meet a fellow contributor in your favorite conference 😄

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[cesswairimu]

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[cesswairimu]

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[nstjean]

Oh what a great topic!
I am already registered for NERD Summit, which is local to me in MA, USA: https://nerdsummit.org/
Someone once recommended StrangeLoop: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/ but the topics may or may not be what I'm looking for.
If I continue to work in Ruby I'd love to attend a conference like RailsConf: https://railsconf.com/

Some others I've seen:
ConFoo, Montreal Canada: https://confoo.ca/en/yul2020
International Javascript Conference, London UK: https://javascript-conference.com/london/
Collision, Toronto Canada: https://collisionconf.com/
Half Stack, New York USA: https://halfstackconf.com/newyork/tickets/

Part of me thinks I should pick one in Europe just so I can travel there! 😄

[alaxalves]

Hey guys, I'm not aware of any conference around where I live 😆, but I'll keep an eye out if there's any. For now I'm working on solving some minor bugs in Spectral Workbench, trying to get everything preset for GSoC. I've already gotten @SidharthBansal to mentor me on the upgrade project. I'll come up with a sketch proposal, with the plans I have regarding Spectral project and keep solving minor bugs.

[emilyashley]

Oooh good question! Some of my favorite conferences over the past few years have been FOSS4G, SOTMUS (openstreetmap), NACIS (cartography), and JS.geo! Hahah can you tell I love maps and open technology? I've always wanted to go to StrangeLoop tho!

I've presented at FOSS4G, JS.geo, and ClosureSync and had a really good time at all of them :)

[emilyashley]

@nstjean oh cool, Collision used to be held in New Orleans so I've been a few times. It's great for the intersection of tech and business and product. Very start-up oriented 😁

[cesswairimu]

PyconKe and RubyconfKe are great ones, they happen in Nairobi, Kenya but I heard they might be postponed this year because of the ongoing scares.

[cesswairimu]

Moved to publiclab/leaflet-blurred-location#237 Thanks all