JavaScript meet-up Sydney decided to have an event focused on accessibility, and I got an email to give a talk. The timing could not have been better as I had been recently working on retrofitting polymer and react codebases for WCAG compliance. This lead to many many many nights of going down rabbit holes and playing with shadow dom and shady dom across different browsers and screen readers. So the timing was perfect \O/ The…
So this was the first year of OSCON in Austin, the conference was not as large as the ones I had attended in Portland and even the booth area was notably smaller. This did not take away from the focus at professionalism of the conference. They definitely lacked the student crowd that the hall pass in Portland, which for me also meant not seeing alot of the freelance developer crowd who could not justify the…
So we jumped on a plane after an Easter in Australia and made it to Lake Tahoe for Snow, a Blues Festival and a Linux Conference. The Linux collaborators conference was one I had wanting to attend as there are not many conferences that have that many Lawyers in a room who understand what Open Source is let alone work for companies that are growing and fostering Open Source. It was also a great excuse…
I was super excited to be offered a slot to speak at Ignite in Amsterdam, I really enjoy the Ignite format ORiely Conference Ignites tend to be slightly larger then your normal Ignite. The room was as I expected, large and overwhelming and also absolutely exciting to be presenting.
And we are off to Amsterdam, such an amazing pretty city. To speak about the differences in the conferences absolutely huge. The line-up was really different and they went with a local flair, the actual conference itself was smaller which I am told was to be expected. The business hall was smaller but alot more of a community feel then the huge ones in North America. The party well wasnt a party but a canal…
So I missed a flight from Seattle to Dublin and then ended up landing in Dublin about 4hours before my talk. So not an ideal situation, luckily I was not flying from Australia but only Seattle so the flight was half the distance not that it helps you much when you land and your talk is in four hours. I managed to get myself to the conference and to the talk in time and prepared…