Doing the conferency talky thing

I didn’t do much in the way of public speaking last year, but I’m starting to make up for it this year. Here’s a few things I’ve got coming up:

• April 13 – Lighting talk at the Seattle Django Users Group – this will be about jsonwidget, which is shaping up nicely. I’m toying with the idea of making a Django interface for jsonwidget which will be the main point of the discussion.
• April 24 or 25 (tbd) LinuxFest Northwest (Bellingham) – Using urwid and Python for console applications – I’ve had a pretty good experience working with Urwid over the past couple of months or so, and I’m planning to share what I’ve learned.
• July 21-22 – Two talks at O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention in Portland:
  • July 21 – Financial Incentives in Open Source
    – this is a panel I’ll be moderating, with a lot of really interesting people with a pretty broad range of experience. Stormy Peters has given a lot of really good talks on the subject already. Leslie Hawthorn has been the community manager for the Google Summer of Code program for the past several years. Mike Milinkovich is executive director at Eclipse Foundation, which among many things, is host to the Eclipse Community Awards. Last but not least, Todd Crowe is an independent web developer who has a lot of experience working with freelance sites like Elance. Additionally, Todd has done a lot of work for Love Machine, Inc., a startup that’s taking a pretty innovative approach to organizing their work.
  • July 22 – Great User Interfaces in the Terminal Window – This will be similar to my April talk about Urwid at LFNW, but will be a broader overview of the various approaches. When I was hunting for Urwid, I evaluated some of the alternatives, so the idea behind this talk is to step through the advantages/disadvantages of the various approaches.