{"id":55,"date":"2004-10-29T12:09:26","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T19:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/index.php\/archives\/2004\/10\/29\/conference-styles\/"},"modified":"2005-04-15T12:32:01","modified_gmt":"2005-04-15T20:32:01","slug":"conference-styles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2004\/10\/conference-styles\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Styles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m in the middle of last-minute details for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmlconference.org\" title=\"link to XML conference\"><span class=\"caps\">XML<\/span> Con\u00adfer\u00adence 2004<\/a>, things like check\u00ading the <span class=\"caps\">PDF<\/span> of the sched\u00adule before it gets sent to the print\u00ader, fig\u00adur\u00ading out the chair\u00ading sched\u00adule for the ses\u00adsions, etc. There\u2019s a lot more to run\u00adning a con\u00adfer\u00adence of this size and com\u00adplex\u00adity than I thought before I got involved. Once the con\u00adfer\u00adence starts a lot of the work has been done. I ima\u00adgine the dir\u00adect\u00ador of a stage play must feel the same when it finally opens to the pub\u00adlic. You\u2019ve done a lot of pre\u00adpar\u00ada\u00adtion work, and now it\u2019s up to the act\u00adors (in the case of the con\u00adfer\u00adence, the speak\u00aders) to do their part. And if one of them fluffs their lines or turns out to have stage fright, that\u2019s as much part of the exper\u00adi\u00adence as those speak\u00aders who have a gift for com\u00admu\u00adnic\u00adat\u00ading with the audi\u00adence that is a joy to&nbsp;see.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many dif\u00adfer\u00adent types of con\u00adfer\u00adence, ran\u00adging from the tech\u00adnic\u00adal more form\u00adal bent of the <span class=\"caps\">XML<\/span> con\u00adfer\u00adence, com\u00adplete with pro\u00adceed\u00adings papers and (new this year!) a prize for the best speak\u00ader, to the delib\u00ader\u00adately inform\u00adal nature of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernvoice.ca\/\" title=\"link to Vancouver blogging conference\">North\u00adern Voice<\/a> blog\u00adging con\u00adfer\u00adence. The lat\u00adter is aimed at per\u00adson\u00adal uses of blog\u00adging rather than cor\u00adpor\u00adate, there are no exhib\u00adits and a min\u00adim\u00adal entry fee. (<span class=\"caps\">BTW<\/span>, the dead\u00adline for speak\u00ader sub\u00admis\u00adsions to North\u00adern Voice is Novem\u00adber 15 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernvoice.ca\/speakers\">Speak\u00ader Inform\u00ada\u00adtion<\/a>.) And then there\u2019s the <span class=\"caps\">FOO<\/span> camp, which I\u2019ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2004\/09\/foo-camp\/\">writ\u00adten about before<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What makes a con\u00adfer\u00adence worth\u00adwhile is always the speak\u00aders, I\u2019ve decided. Speak\u00aders who care about what they\u2019re talk\u00ading about and want you to care. Speak\u00aders who know what they\u2019re talk\u00ading about is a nice bonus, of course ;-). At the <span class=\"caps\">XML<\/span> Con\u00adfer\u00adence I\u2019ve found that speak\u00aders who are asked to speak are gen\u00ader\u00adally less motiv\u00adated and do a worse job than those who have the motiv\u00ada\u00adtion to put in the abstracts them\u00adselves. If you care about some\u00adthing, you will put in the work to do a good job, and this applies to speak\u00ading as much as to writ\u00ading&nbsp;code.<\/p>\n<p> I\u2019m look\u00ading for\u00adward to both these con\u00adfer\u00adences, Novem\u00adber for <span class=\"caps\">XML<\/span>, and Feb\u00adru\u00adary for blog\u00adging. They\u2019re dif\u00adfer\u00adent in style, and they will have dif\u00adfer\u00adent audi\u00adences. But they will both have some great speakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mus\u00adings on the con\u00adfer\u00adence busi\u00adness and what makes con\u00adfer\u00adences&nbsp;work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}