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Closing 2016, a list of talks I gave
Thanks @rais38 for the photo!
We are almost at the end of January but I didn’t want to end the first month of the year without doing a small recap of the talks I gave last year.
When I moved to Spain at the end of 2015 I said to myself that I didn’t want to forget the little English I knew so I needed to force myself to keep traveling outside of Spain and to do some public speaking. The public speaking bit is for two reason: keep forcing myself to speak English and… to lose my fear about talking English in front of a bunch of people you don’t know about a tech that they probably know better than you.
I could do it much better than I did, but I am happy with the results.
My English talks
Custom Volume Plugins @ Kubecon
I prepared this talk a lot, but I was pretty nervous on stage I did a terrible job. Some people said that they learn a lot of new concepts, but they were just trying to be friendly :) Probably I underestimated the pressure behind a Kubecon talk and I will fix this in the future.
Python, Kubernetes and friends @ PyGrunn
I gave this in the best (IMHO, but I could be biased) Python conference in the Netherlands, it went pretty well, I knew the things I did pretty badly in my previous talk at Kubeconf and I tried to fix the problems. However, if you check the video and you can give me some advice, feel free.
From pets to cattle, the way of Kubernetes
This talk was in Spain, but since it was a big conference I gave it in English for non-Spanish speakers. I think the talk was ok, I got a 4 out 5 in their feedback tool, but it seems I didn’t attach the people because nobody asking anything at the end. Out of camera I got several questions tho.
And the Spanish ones
All these talks were internal Jobandtalent talks for my ex-colleagues, I hope it helped them, they definitely helped me, it was a trusty environment and the questions were really interesting. You probably wouldn’t ask that much in a conference but it helps the speaker (in this case me) to improve.
Go 101 @ Jobandtalent
Kubernetes 101 @ Jobandtalent
Docker 101 @ Jobandtalent
Out of that list I gave some other, for example, about Neo4J and a workshop with my friend @ipedrazas about Kubernetes & Docker, here, in Spain. Also, I started mad Scalability and I am quite happy with about it!
I will try to prepare some CFP in 2017, but as today I see it pretty difficult because of reasons :)
As I said at the beginning of the post, one of the reasons why I tried to do public speaking is to improve at it, you if you have any advice share it with me please!