Welcome, I'm Marty Haught
I am a software architect/engineer working primarily with Ruby and Ruby on Rails in Longmont, Colorado. I provide software consulting through my company, Haught Codeworks.
MARTYHAUGHT
I am a software architect/engineer working primarily with Ruby and Ruby on Rails in Longmont, Colorado. I provide software consulting through my company, Haught Codeworks.
I’ve been speaking at both conferences and user groups about building community and improving what we already have in the Ruby community. At Ruby Midwest, I am giving a sub 30 minute version of this talk and had to cut out a good number of slides. In this process I realized several of these slides might do better as a blog post on the basics of event organizing. While this is not meant to be exhaustive it does try to cover the basics on putting together your first event.
Continue Reading…Recently there was a bit of talk about conferences requiring speakers to pay for their ticket just like a regular attendee. There was a related post by Jesse of PyCon on their policy here. As a conference organizer I have my own take on this topic. In short, I disagree with the notion that speakers should pay anything. Let me explain more about that though as it’s rooted deeply in my personal philosophy.
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