Cat Hicks3d ago
I have been invited to but turned down 3 conferences talks already this year because they're told me it's new policy to not cover speaker travel under the assumption that your tech employer will cover it. I own my own small business as a researcher and my wife is an academic teaching professor, so I cannot ask my household to absorb that. I just want to generally observe that we are filtering the voices we're going to be able to hear from, with all this contraction
Show threadBen Ramsey2d ago

@grimalkina @inthehands I’d love for you to share your work in a keynote presentation at a PHP programming language conference. Conferences in the PHP community are among the few (among programming language conferences) who still cover speaker travel, hotel, and conference ticket. (There are no stipends or per diems, but lunch is provided, and there’s usually some kind of food in the evenings.)

I’d be happy to make some introductions, if you're interested.

Show threadCat Hicks2d ago
@ramsey @inthehands how kind of you to think of me. When my schedule allows I love to keynote -- folks can check out some previous keynotes here and reach out anytime. For a conference especially led by a technical community (rather than internal company talk), I typically do not expect a stipend: https://www.drcathicks.com/speaking
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Show threadSasha 

@grimalkina @ramsey @inthehands If it's the International PHP Conference I can highly recommend it. Not only because I have talks there from time to time. It's my "home conference" (since I think 2000), I will have a talk this year too (about working with people in times of change). It's a very welcoming community.

And I also can highly recommend Cat. She's the leading researcher in her field (which you probably know ) and I've seen her speak and she's a great person. We met shortly at a LeadDev conference.

If it's about another PHP conference I can't recommend it because I've never been to another one 

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