Community Conferences - What to know? (Ep 90)

Over the past few years, we’ve seen conferences ebb and flow. Some community-run conferences have evolved into new things, new ones have sprouted up while other annual favorites have sadly gone extinct. What goes into a community-led conference? How does someone get involved? Let’s take a look!

Checkouts
Mo McElaney

• Contributor Covenant
• Presented “Digital Discrimination: Cognitive Bias in Machine Learning (and LLMs!)“ at PyData Conf on July 29 - look out for the video!
  
• Speaking at AI for the Rest of Us Conf in London this fall
  
• Ask a Master Gardener Hotline!
  

Matty Stratton

• Hevy - lifting app
• She's a Beast - great program Couch to Barbell; amazing discord for folks/community
• Fallout - the game and the show!
  
• [Devopsdays Chicago CFP](devopsdays.org/chicago) opens Aug 5!

Wesley Faulkner

• You’re Not Listening by Kate Murphy

Jason Hand

• Wild Spaces
• Becoming SRE
• You Have Not Heard Your Favorite Song: How Streaming Changes Music by Glenn McDonald

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