Last year GDG Boulder celebrated International Women's Day with a night of lightning talks. People loved it, so we did it again this year!
Host
I was speaking at DroidKaigi in Japan in February, and would not have too much bandwidth to organize the talks. Fortunately Amber Grimaldi kindly agreed to host the event. Just like I outlined in the report from last year, she reached out to individuals asking them to speak, followed up to make sure they prepared the slides on time, and of course, emceed on the night.
We used 2 hashtags: #WTMBoulder to get a quick summary of our event, and #WTM16 to share the evening with the rest of the Women Techmakers community.
It starts! @4grim opening the lightning talks #WTMBoulder #WTM16 pic.twitter.com/ayXgfEFqCB
— GDG Boulder (@gdgboulder) March 6, 2016
"Don't let feelings of imposter syndrome discourage you from pairing. You have something to contribute." @elemdoubleu #WTM16 #WTMBoulder
— Katie (@Katie_Dunn) March 6, 2016
"Learn to say no, " one of the things @kenodoggy wishes she learned earlier. #WTMBoulder #WTM16 pic.twitter.com/3DnNAa3FSR
— GDG Boulder (@gdgboulder) March 6, 2016
Stellar job to all that presented at #WTMBoulder. I've been inspired to debug smarter by @Katie_Dunn & beat imposter syndrome by @kenodoggy
— Berlin Sohn (@BerlinSohn) March 6, 2016
Recording
I was the camerawoman for the night. I followed my own instructions for recording talks: screen capture for slides, camcorder for face of the speakers, use audio to sync them up. There was a bit of post-processing to decide where to overlay the camcorder feed to avoid blocking the slide content, but otherwise the editing was pretty straight-forward.
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjkBbfqbfeQZlDx-0Dj9k3-U7-eXz6H53
Slides: http://bit.ly/1TWYZGq
First-time speakers
A few of the speakers never gave a talk before, and would like to get started. A lightning talk is a great way to get your feet wet, and I was very happy to be able to record them. Now they have a sample online to apply to speak at other events!
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