Adrienne Lowe - Bake the Cookies, Wear the Dress: Connecting with Confident Authenticity

Are you interested in speaking at a tech conference, but you're unsure how you might share relevant technical information in an engaging way? Are you in a position of leadership or mentorship in open source and want to be more approachable, accessible, and collaborative? In a fun and light-hearted talk, learn actionable suggestions for inspiring others with your own confident authenticity.

https://us.pycon.org/2016/schedule/presentation/2082/

Transcript

1. Bake the Cookies, Wear the Dress:
   Connecting with
   Confident Authenticity
   Adrienne Lowe, PyCon 2016
   @adriennefriend
   

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2. Thanks so much!
   Sponsors, vendors, caterers,
   venue staff, organizers!
   #positivepython
   

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3. Thank you Lacey!
   @laceynwilliams
   

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4. Haven’t we met before?
   Organizer, PyLadiesATL and PyATL
   Django Girls Atlanta organizer
   Editor, Your Django Story
   Tech editor, O’Reilly’s Head First Python, 2nd ed
   Former Director of Advancement, Django Software
   Foundation (Django)
   Current Director of Sponsorship, Write the Docs
   Full-time in support at myEmma.com
   

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5. Getting started
   

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6. http://www.dailycompass.org/
   

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7. the Very Bad Advice
   

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8. codingwithkniv.es
   

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9. Coding With … Knives?!
   

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10. http://garmmon.deviantart.com/art/Gotta-catch-em-all-197266113
    

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11. http://cdn2.veganbaking.net/
    

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12. Forget about it
    Don’t look too feminine! You won’t be taken
    seriously.
    Don’t use too many domestic analogies. They
    won’t resonate with your largely male
    audience.
    Aren’t you trying to move into tech? Why do
    you keep mentioning your cooking experience?
    

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13. ...imposter?
    

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14. “I won’t be sharing anything
    groundbreaking about Python…
    do you still think
    it’s worth it?”
    

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15. “...share your real experiences
    and your path. A good talk is
    more about relating and sharing
    than being ‘groundbreaking’.”
    -- @jasonamyers: Author, O'Reilly's
    Essential SQLAlchemy; PyTennessee,
    Nodevember, & PyNash Co-Organizer
    

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16. Let’s Do This.
    

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17. And since then?
    PyATL
    PyLadiesATL
    DjangoCon Europe
    ELA Conf
    OSCON
    PyCon
    

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18. Start where you are
    

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19. Imposter!
    

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21. Wrangling the
    Monsters
    

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22. Connecting with Authenticity 101:
    What do you already do well?
    How’d you learn how to do that thing?
    

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23. to
    

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24. How do You
    Do You?
    

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25. With a forty year career in the software
    industry, Lars Lohn is an eccentric,
    skeptic and heretic. Lars embraces
    complexity, shows no fear in the face of
    threading, prefers recursion over
    iteration, and thinks dependency
    injection is the solution to everything.
    He is the principal engineer behind the
    Firefox crash reporting system, Socorro,
    and has been full-time with Mozilla since
    2008.
    

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27. A mediocre programmer ?
    Jacob Kaplan-Moss,
    PyCon 2015 Keynote
    Inventor of Django
    Co-creator of Django
    “Person who started
    working on Django a
    year and half after
    Adrian and Simon
    created it”
    

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28. R U OK?
    Russell Keith Magee,
    DjangoCon US 2015
    Former President of
    the Django Software
    Foundation (DSF)
    (Psst: Meet him at the PyBee booth!)
    

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43. What to make of all this?
    

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44. Being authentic means
    being welcoming…
    Especially to beginners.
    

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47. Making
    connections
    

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48. Maybe she’s
    born with it?
    

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49. Maybe it’s…
    hard work and
    even some tears.
    

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51. We can't keep telling
    others that we're not born
    with it, but making it look
    like we are.
    We can't have it both ways.
    

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52. it’s the
    process
    

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57. You know better
    So go do better
    -- with thanks to Maya Angelou
    

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58. it’s a slow row to hoe
    https://turniprock.wordpress.com/
    

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62. ? ? ? ? ?
    

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63. Daily questions in the life of one SR Dev
    How do you install this?
    How do I create a query for x?
    How should I get started?
    I’ve heard about y, but I don’t understand it.
    I’ve never actually tried this by myself. Is
    it difficult? How do you do it?
    

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64. Read (and Write!)
    The Docs
    

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65. rica, just wrapped in PDX!
    rague, September 18 - 20
    Psssst: Join us in Prague - September 18 - 20!
    

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66. i’m still learning, too.
    

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67. How I built a power debugger out of the
    standard library and things I found on the
    internet by Doug Hellmann
    

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70. Learning Python
    the Terrible,
    Horrible, No Good,
    Very Bad, Very
    Hard Way
    

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71. Hello, World!
    

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72. Hello, Heartbreak.
    

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74. it’s terrifying.
    trust me, i know.
    

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75. But we have the
    recipe.
    

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76. Go forth and be…
    yourself.
    ...and please stay in touch!
    @adriennefriend
    

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