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Get on twitter
• Follow people who spoke
• Follow organizers
• Follow projects
• Follow sponsors
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Talk to People
• Strike up conversations at lunch
• Where you work is not as important as what you do
• Make those connections, you never know where you next
job or your next hire will come from.
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Ignore your coworkers
• You can talk to them after the conference
• Unless it is “I’m going to this open space, you go to that
one”
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Utilize the Hallway Track
• Continue open spaces discussions
• Talk to speakers
• Talk to people who asked questions
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Attend the Evening Event
• Continue building those relationships
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Technique vs.
Implementation
• I’m at a Linux-only shop so why would I listen to a
Windows talk
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#cheffriends
• Take a selfie or us-ie with someone you meet and tag them
in your tweet
• Post conference you can go back through you feed
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Don’t be a jerk
• Get a real operating system
• Use a real editor
• You’re using X? There’s your problem!
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Don’t be a jerk
• It may seem funny at the time but your attempts at humor
are actually stifling the conversation
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Have Compassion
• Some decision were made before someone joins a
company
• Or they don’t have the power to change them
• “How do I make my life suck less?”
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Simple Math
• You have 2 ears and 1 mouth
• At a minimum you should listen twice as you speak