Description
Álvaro Herrera, and Boriss Mejías, both longtime members of the Postgres developer community, explore the value of giving conference talks—as well as the work involved, the time it takes, and the many different types of conference talks, including presentations about about failure and things that have gone wrong.
Claire and Pino guide the conversation on questions like: Should you add humor to your talks? How does your personality—introvert or extrovert—affect your conference presentations? Is it OK to give the same conference talk at different events?
Some of the links mentioned in the order they appeared:
Postgres Storytelling: Support in the Darkest Hour: Boriss’ Citus Con talk
A Curious Moon book by Rob Conery
Tomas Vondra's talks on YouTube
pgDay Paris 2022
FOSDEM PostgreSQL devroom
FOSDEM PGDAY 2023
Nordic PGDay 2022
PGConf.EU 2022
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