Hello, My name is Simon 42

Who am I ● Slightly crazy ● Rude ● Work at we::code ● Live in Enschede, Netherlands ● Two cats, Dodge & Tesla ● Working with SilverStripe for 6 years ● I’m not antisocial, I’m just not user friendly 42

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Now that you know who I am Most presentations have some sort of ToC. ● Behind the scenes at StripeCon. ● The conference ● I’m going to be talking ● Looking back ● What is StripeCon about ● After hours ● What’s next ● So long and thanks for all the Zauberfish 42

Behind the scenes at StripeCon ● Getting started ● Organisation ● Calling and e-mailing and chat ● Did I already mention a lot of calling, e-mailing and chatting? 42

The conference ● How this year got started ○ Why we chose for London ○ How I got to the Rainmaking Loft ● You were there, so… ○ What did you miss ○ What did you like I hope you didn’t notice this sheet is darker than the others 42

Please keep talking until I come up with the next top ic ● Planning ahead is everything ● Having someone at location is a must ● Errrr…. ● Food and drinks ● Budget 42

What have we learned ● Ecommerce ● Lightning talks ○ and how not to run behat tests ● Edit core files (or maybe not) ● SilverStripe Platform ● Rant about customers ● And faster database functionality ● And that’s just friday ● Breakfast! ● Deployments, frontend workflow ● And a lovely terminal ● And leave the CMS out ● Bulletpoints always go left 42

What is StripeCon about ● Some stories of things that happened ● Meeting people ● Learning new things ● Do new things ● And of course, SilverStripe 42

Sponsors (and logos) ● SilverStripe ● 7DOTS ● JetBrains licenses ● FTPloy licenses ● BigFork ● CSL ● Twisted Bytes ● Create Film&Video ● we::code ● 30 media ● netwerkstatt

After hours ● What happens at the pub, stays at the pub ● Yep, beers! More beers! ● And possibly too much beers ● And Pizza 42

What’s next ● Photos and videos online ● No after-conference hacking at hackerspace ● But maybe a beer? ● Next year?

Thank you Here are some places you can try to find me github: github.com/Firesphere twitter: @SphereSilver real world: Netherlands, currently irc: Depends on my mood, but should contain something with ‘Sphere’ in it speakerdeck: speakerdeck.com/firesphere (nothing there yet) Ow, and do not forget to visit this URL: goo.gl/QPFWx0 (It’s case-sensitive) 42