Elastic Community Conference CfP Clinic

Join the Developer Advocates Emanuil Tolev and Ricardo Ferreira from Elastic in this meetup to get your abstracts reviewed. They will share their experiences in applying for conferences and helping you to get your abstract as sharp as possible. Just bring your abstract drafts and they can help you by discussing your draft during the meetup or if you are shy they can work with you privately in the chat.

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1. Ricardo Ferreira: riferrei@elastic.co
   Jay Miller: kevin.miller@elastic.co
   Elastic Community Conference
   CfP Clinic
   

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2. Agenda
   ❑ General guidelines about talks (10 minutes)
   ❑ Time to sanitize your abstracts (10 minutes)
   ❑ Open discussion and feedback (40 minutes)
   Reminder: Make sure the Google Doc has the proper permissions.
   

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3. General
   Guidelines
   (10 mins)
   

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4. 1. creating a talk is like telling a
   story with three main parts.
   

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5. Three parts of the talk
   1. Connecting to the audience.
   2. Provide a technical background.
   3. Apply the technical background.
   

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6. 2. Fine Tune your abstract according to
   the guidelines of the conference.
   

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7. Fine tune your abstract
   1. Stay inline with the conference theme.
   2. Keep it short. Keep it sweet. Keep it focused.
   3. Careful with naming and mental associations.
   

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8. 3. Write a scannable content.
   

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9. Write a scannable content
   1. mind longer paragraphs with no commas.
   2. Write as if you were selling something.
   3. dry (don’t repeat yourself) is a golden rule.
   

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10. 4. Deliver something actionable.
    

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11. Deliver something actionable
    1. The audience should leave your talk with a plan.
    2. It is never about yourself. It is about them!
    3. If approved your talk still needs relevance.
    

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13. Just Don’t do it
    1. Create long or boring titles. Make them catchy.
    2. Don’t over describe the solution. Save the meat.
    3. no sales pitches. Keep it open. Keep it elastic.
    4. Don’t submit without proofreading the text.
    5. Use implied/subjective jargon. Speak clearly.
    

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14. Sanitize your
    Abstracts
    (10 mins)
    

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15. Open discussion
    And feedback
    (40 mins)
    

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16. Open Discussion and feedback
    ❑ Speak up and share your abstract idea.
    ❑ Alternatively, reach out via chat. We will divide
    and conquer to serve everybody.
    ❑ We may need to send your review after.
    

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17. THANK YOU
    Ricardo Ferreira: riferrei@elastic.co
    Jay Miller: kevin.miller@elastic.co
    

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