Presented by:

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Dave Stokes

from Percona

Dave Stokes is a Technology Evangelist at Percona Corporation and started at MySQL as a PHP Developer in the MySQL Certification Group. He lives in Texas, is the author of MySQL and JSON: A Practical Programming Guide.

Do you want to present at conferences but do not know where to start? Then this session is for YOU! Where do you get speaking skills, audiences to test your speaking skills, and how do your practice presentations? Believe it or not there are local groups lusting after your knowledge and long established groups to help your hone your skills. Come learn the five tools your really need to know before speaking at a computer conference (open source or other), how & when to practice, how to get feed back, why watching tapes of your past presentations may actually hurt you, and learn how to keep an audience on your side.

Date:
2018 April 29 - 05:30
Duration:
45 min
Room:
CC-115
Conference:
LinuxFest Northwest 2018
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  2. Start Time:
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    Room:
    G-103

  3. Linux 101: Just the basics
  4. Start Time:
    2018 April 29 05:30

    Room:
    HC-108

  5. Securing Docker on the Cheap - Part 1 - Fundamentals
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    2018 April 29 05:30

    Room:
    CC-208

  7. Applying Object Character Recognition and Kubernetes to Twitch
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    2018 April 29 05:30

    Room:
    CC-200

  9. Switching to the BSDs: A crash course in FreeBSD, FreeNAS, TrueOS and OpenBSD
  10. Start Time:
    2018 April 29 05:30

    Room:
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  11. Presentation Skills for Open Source Folks
  12. Start Time:
    2018 April 29 05:30

    Room:
    CC-115

  13. Linux in a Microsoft world
  14. Start Time:
    2018 April 29 05:30

    Room:
    CC-114

  15. Maintaining local forks
  16. Start Time:
    2018 April 29 05:30

    Room:
    CC-235

  17. Tables and columns and rows! Oh my!
  18. Start Time:
    2018 April 29 05:30

    Room:
    HC-103 Postgres