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🎙 talk.js - May 2019 #22

Closed ongmin closed 5 years ago

ongmin commented 5 years ago

📝 Details

📅 Agenda

Time Agenda
7.00pm Doors open - mingle with guests and speakers over 🍕
7.30pm Start of event - opening segment by host
7.40pm Start of scheduled talks
8.40pm Open announcements - open segment for anyone to make announcements
9.00pm End of event

:speech_balloon: Talks

:seedling: Propose a talk this month

Want to speak at this month's talk? Leave a comment below with the following details:

Click for details > #### Title of your topic > Insert catchy title here > > #### Topic description > Tell us what you'd like to talk about > > #### Presenter(s) > Include GitHub handles where possible. Add your Twitter handle if you wish > > #### Presenter's bio > A short introduction of yourself > > #### Duration > 5 minutes for presenting an introduction to the topic, then up to 20 minutes for discussion. > > #### Deck URL (if any) > You can add this part in later

:loudspeaker: Open announcements

Have something you'd like to tell the audience? We have an open announcement segment for you to announce job opportunities, promote a meet up, upcoming conferences, etc.

:pencil: Organizers' checklist

Click for details - [x] Check available dates on [EngineersSG](https://engineers.sg/) - [x] Confirm date and venue availability - [x] Create event on [SingaporeJS Meetup Page](https://www.meetup.com/singapore-js/) - [x] Inform @engineersftw for video recordings - [x] Announce event on [SingaporeJS Gitter](https://gitter.im/SingaporeJS/home) and other social media platforms - [x] Prepare deck for event \* _checked boxes indicate confirmed/done_
anontyro commented 5 years ago

Title of your topic

An Overview of GraphQL Front + Backend

Topic description

GraphQL has been steadily growing in popularity over the past few years as a way to bring together the ever more fractured ecosystem into one neat focal point. GraphQL is easy to setup and works fantastically across a variety of languages and platforms.

In this talk I hope to outline GraphQL and pull out some examples to hopefully illustrate why you should dive right into this new paradigm.

I will be talking about GraphQL largely using the Apollo framework with Typescript.

Content:

Presenter

ME! I'm Alex! I work as a frontend developer at Hooq tackling the thrills of ReactJS with a keen interest in all things (Java || Type)script! In my free time I enjoy playing with new fun things like Rust and generally making weird things!

Duration

35 minutes + 5 minutes QA

duquesnay commented 5 years ago

Title of the topic

Tough Talks, or How to confront opinions with your teammates

Topic Description

The ability to confront opinions is key to be a great team or a great company, be it about tech work, product thinking, or any kind of team work. If you don’t confront opinions, you are not really using all the talents. Now, it’s not easy.

This topic came to my attention as I was talking with the most respected developers I know and they all went at length about this. I synthesised and structured what they taught me, and I‘d like to share what came out:

Presenter

Giom

Duration

20 to 30 minutes

ongmin commented 5 years ago

Hi @anontyro and @duquesnay! Thanks for these two awesome topics!

@anontyro Is it possible to adapt it to 25 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A? It's just to make sure we work with the natural attention span of people for absorbing knowledge after a day of work and a stomach full of pizza..

@duquesnay If you're up for it, since this is a non-tech topic, what do you think about keeping the presentation bit for 15-20 minutes and then opening it to the floor for a discussion after? Something for the audience to share situations they have been in and ask both you and also others for their experience? For more sharing and exchange.

We'll probably just keep it to this two talks for May so we have time to go deep as the mood of the people goes. :)

anontyro commented 5 years ago

@ongmin Sure I can shorten it a bit shouldn't be a problem :)

duquesnay commented 5 years ago

Doable! I have to think of questions for the audience, unless you have some.

Giom

On 9 May 2019, at 08:06, Alexander Wilkinson notifications@github.com wrote:

@ongmin Sure I can shorten it a bit shouldn't be a problem :)

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ongmin commented 5 years ago

If you're interested, videos for these two talks can be found:

  1. Tough Talks, or How to confront opinions with your teammates (by Giom) https://engineers.sg/video/singaporejs-talk-js-chat-js-may--3360

  2. An Overview of GraphQL Front + Backend (by Alexander Wilkinson) https://engineers.sg/video/singaporejs-talk-js-chat-js-may-part-2--3359

Thanks again for speaking and attending! :)