Asking questions

Women often do not ask questions after talks even if the have some. This talk explains why overcoming this fact and fear is important for women in IT and ideas of how we can get into asking more questions.

Transcript

1. Asking questions in conferences, talks, colleagues Meili Triantafyllidi @PyLadies Berlin ?
2. Problem
3. Why bother?
4. How?
5. How? 1. Write a question in a paper while listening. 2. Read it once. 3. Ask
6. How? 1. Find an ally. 2. Agree that both of you will ask a question in the end.
7. How? If you are know the speaker and the topic ... 1. Prepare a question (or 2) beforehand to encourage more questions.
8. “Thank you very much for your talk....” Start question with..
9. More ideas? Thoughts/ Questions? seriously … say something :)