Talk Ideas
Want to propose a talk or panel but aren't sure what to propose? Here are some ideas for talks we'd love to see:
- Changing the ratio: getting more people of color into open source
- Collaborating with people you dislike
- How to keep collaborating after significant conflict over ideas or implementation
- Strategies for raising community guidelines/issues in a text-heavy medium like bug trackers or issue trackers
- Feelings 101
- How to be angry, how to apologize, & how to set boundaries
- Experiences/workflow reports from developers who are vision or mobility impaired
- Practical skills for allyship
- Communicating effectively about project needs, scope, and limitations when there is a large disparity in technical skill and knowledge among collaborators
- Inclusive hiring processes
- Developing for accessibility
- The role of documentation in encouraging participation in Open Source
- Getting started in open source as a new coder
- Getting started in open source in a non-programming role
- Connecting community organizations with the technical resources and people they need to enhance their services
- Connecting people with software skills to help folks in non-software communities
- Guide to organizing a conference
- Pair programming done well
- How to contribute to a project without coding
- What mid- and senior-engineers can do to promote healthy teams/culture
- Case studies of difficult times in community - what happened and how do we learn from it
- Coming back (or not) from making a bad technical mistake
- The only black engineer: dealing with cultural alienation
- Using GitHub in ways that welcome and actively encourage contribution from people of different backgrounds and skill levels
- Taking responsibility for making interpersonal mistakes - how to minimize damage and rebuild trust
- Primer on microaggressions
- Civic hacking
- Different roles in open source (designers, project/program managers, developers, technical writers, community organizers, etc) and what they need to know about each other to collaborate well
- Managing a happy team
- How to get a job in open source that brings you joy
- Open source teaching: curriculum, tools, and pedagogy
- Open Source hardware
- How to develop and maintain community standards
- Getting your foot in the door with a non-traditional background