I’ve been meaning to write more about speaking recently, so after I wrote about my personal CFP rule, let’s write about a very related topic: The Speaker Package. What is it? The speaker package is the term used for the package of reimbursements and other advantages you have as a speaker. This may (or may…
One of the first things you do if you want to speak is that you submit to a CFP (Call for Papers) of a conference. Most conferences use this system to get a nice selection of talks out of which to compile the schedule for a conference. The idea is that speakers tell the conference…
ConFoo 2016 is over. The past days a huge amount of developers, most of them from Canada but also from the USA, The Netherlands, South Africa, France and quite a few other countries came to Montreal for ConFoo. I know I had a lot of fun, and I surely learned a lot. One of the…
As you may not have noticed already, I have been accepted to do the closing keynote at the fantastic PHP NorthWest 2015 conference. I am really happy to have been accepted, as this keynote is a personal message from me that I think is important to communicate. In my keynote “Developers Are Just Like Humans”…
Last night I made one of the most exciting announcements of my professional life. At the AmsterdamPHP meetup I announced the first conference-like event that we’re organizing with the Ingewikkeld-crew. One of those things that I’ve done quite a while now for different usergroups (organizing events) is now also part of my work, and that…
Hi Liz, I was going to send this letter as an e-mail, but as I was writing the e-mail I felt it necessary to turn this into an open letter. Everybody should see this, and be aware of this. Everyone should stand up to support you. Openly, not just in private. It is amazing how…
At the most excellent PHPNW conference, Kat convinced me to deliver the first unconference talk of the day. It took me a while to get the right topic. I ended up with a topic I felt everyone at the conference could use for the rest of the two days that they were there: How to…
Who’s this? Oh wait, it’s me. I’ve finally taken the time to fix my blog. This means my archive of old blogposts is back, although unfortunately the comments are not. I took some time yesterday at the most excellent PHPNW 2013 conference to finally get my new blogging software (Octopress) up and running, together with…
It all started last year: I decided I wanted to go to PHPNW even if I wasn’t accepted as a speaker. Being Dutch, I made sure to purchase my ticket for the conference during the blind bird period to save some money. But then I got accepted as a speaker. Part of the speaker package…
Usually this means I have to cancel my speaking at the conference, but I would really love to be part of this conference. So, I’m looking for one or more companies in the Boston area that are interested in hiring me (or possibly me and Joshua Thijssen, my business partner in Techademy) for training, consulting…