Compile a list of target speakers for meetings

[fyliu]

Overview

We need to compile a target list of speakers to approach for coming to our meetings. They can either present on a topic or do code reviews and share their best practice from experience.

Ideas

• ask within hack for LA
  • people they work with
  • people in their projects
  • people they know about
• look at other communities for their speakers

Resources/Instructions

These are the information we need for each speaker

• name
• title
• linkedin
• type of speaker (presenter, code reviewer)

[agosmou]

Brain Dump

Consider reaching out to senior eng managers to get tips for entry-level positions. eg best practices, industry trends, open-source, future of SWE, etc.

https://github.com/hellerve/programming-talks#on-the-industrycommunity
https://medium.com/girl-geek-x/21-technical-women-speakers-for-your-next-conference-or-manel-5922a5031059
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linkedin-top-voices-2019-software-development-daniel-bean/
https://kentcdodds.com/
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

[agosmou]

Update: 4/14/23

I sent an inquiry to two past professors I hadwho are tenured SWE's - awaiting response.

I posted on a tech org that I am part of; I posted on 2 groups each with 700 people - awaiting response.

I tweeted some people - no response.

I will target some people on Monday and approach them via LinkedIn.

[agosmou]

Bonnie suggested looking for people who have written articles and having them join for the speaker series.

This is a great approach for Lightning Talks and could work for finding speakers.