Evangelism: Call for Speakers

[mikeal]

I'm getting asked to speak at damn near every meetup in the world about io.js but I don't scale.

I'd like to put together a slide deck with good presenter notes for people to use at their local meetups. Then we can reach out to meetup groups and find local people who can give introductory talks about io.js.

I'd also like a few seasoned presenters to volunteer to do regular hangouts with people who want to use the deck to give talks.

So, any volunteers for helping write the deck and giving talks? :)

[mikeal]

@paulirish ;)

[bnoordhuis]

I can cover the Netherlands and parts of Belgium and Germany (essentially, everything that's within a 3 hour drive from where I live.) Only technical talks, though. :-)

[Fishrock123]

+1 I may be doing one of these in Toronto at the next node.js meetup.

[artcommacode]

+1 on this as well. I'd be interested in submitting a proposal to Scotland JS this May.

[19h]

I'd cover Berlin, Germany. I usually do them anyways, but introducing people to io.js would be just right!

[therebelrobot]

+1 I'm good to present in Utah, maybe anywhere in the west coast if travel is covered.

[toddself]

Would love to help in Brooklyn! (and Seattle where we are moving this summer)

[therebelrobot]

We should probably pull together a doc or something with main points about presenting about io.js, what to expect, things like that. I know a doc like that is helping out our node meetup group locally.

[yosuke-furukawa]

+1 !! I have lots of presentation chances in Japan. I would like to broaden io.js.

[snostorm]

I'll reach out to http://www.exchangejs.com/ to see if I can sneak in a talk while in Edmonton, otherwise I can hit up the some Paris meetups after I'm back mid-February. (I am comfortable to speak in front of an audience and @mikeal, I'd be happy to help you with the slides as well.)

[jonathanong]

i can cover southern california

[ruimarinho]

I can help cover Portugal :)

[julianduque]

I can cover Colombia and some other parts in latin america, this year I'll be in JSConf Uruguay, NodeConf Brazil, Peru, Mexico and Guatemala :)

[italoacasas]

I can help cover Florida, (Miami, Orlando, etc)

[dasilvacontin]

I can help cover Paris.

[JedWatson]

I'm happy to cover anywhere near Sydney.

.. although @rvagg did an excellent job at Node Ninjas last month, so not sure I'm needed :)

[rvagg]

I'm also doing Melbourne via Skype this week. Happy to do remote stuff if needed.

[rvagg]

Here's my formula at the moment:

• QA style, people have more questions than you can cover in a quick talk and you're not likely to answer the actual things that matter to them so let them ask
• Don't talk negative about people, in fact it's best to leave mention of specific people out of it entirely, both historical and current--it's important that io.js be conveyed as a community effort and not being owned or run by particular people
• Let the data speak for itself, run this against the repo (v1.x branch) before you talk to get an updated data set: git log --pretty=format:"%ai"| awk -F- '{months[$1"-"$2]++} END { for (month in months) { print month","months[month] }}' | sort > commits.csv (it's true that this data isn't quite a perfect representation, but it's close enough and it doesn't matter which way you dice it, it always looks the same). Plot that in a simple line chart and you can demonstrate that we're on track to putting Node back to where it's original peak of activity was a few years ago. You can also highlight the steady decline in the 0.10 period and how we're about to hit the 2 year anniversary of 0.10 being released and 0.12 being just around the corner. An interesting exercise is to first show this graph cut off at November 2014, then on the next slide, show the full one up to today.
• I have 3 slides (so far) with brief talking points, the expansion of these should be fairly obvious to those involved in the project:
  • 1
  • Transparent Governance
  • Contributor Ownership
  • Community Engagement
  • 2
  • Frequent Releases
  • Semver!
  • 3
  • Modern V8
  • Modern JavaScript

[Fishrock123]

@rvagg will that be recorded? (Also, I fixed your comment. no html tags work on github.)

[rvagg]

I don't think it'll be recorded -- and the <br>s were intentional, there's no hierarchy in my points

[rvagg]

updated my comment with page numbers and points for those pages, just to clarify

[nvcexploder]

I can help also, covering Portland and Seattle. More places if travel is covered.

[snostorm]

Anybody have a few slides so far? 50/50 on giving an ad-hoc version of the Q&A talk at tonight's Edmonton meetup as a shorter, bonus talk. If I end up doing it / throwing together my own, I'll try and share them up as well.

[Fishrock123]

Honestly, I think mikeal's state of io.js is a good spot to build off of for now.

[snostorm]

Thanks @Fishrock123 for that link!

An update: I did a talk tonight with the content and structure roughly inspired by @rvagg's post above and @mikeal's article (plus some others, like the recent "weekly update" post.)

I'll try to make sense of what was said, the followup Q&A/converations and try to convert the slides to be more share-friendly in the days to come. Sadly, there is a snowfall warning here, so there was low attendance. BUT I got some positive feedback on the project's direction and some people who mentioned they'd be following our repos closer / possibly looking to help. (Open governance for the win!)

[cloudbring]

@jonathanong I can cover Southern California too. I'm in the Santa Monica / West LA area. I'd love to work together.

[pselle]

raises hand Philadelphia or Manhattan or Brooklyn (I'll be in NYC for three months starting oh, Monday). I can also help you with slides/presentation design @mikeal

[greelgorke]

Hamburg, germany. Other Cities too if i'm around

[sergiolepore]

I was the founder/organizer of CbaJS, a local Meetup on Córdoba, Argentina. Maybe I can arrange something and talk about io.js :smile:

[Adron]

Maybe I missed the deck. Also available - and already frequently mentioning io.js & it's relation to Node.js. If there's a good speakers deck (did I miss one?) I'd be happy to pick that up as a tool to use for presenting on the topic. Several enterprisey places in PDX having been asking and come to me. Between @nvcexploder myself and others here...I think we'll scale the Cascadian bioregion just fine.

But any resources are much much appreciated. ...and you are always more than welcome to visit and speak on the matter and beverages are on me @mikeal :D

[mikeal]

I'm writing a deck now that is mostly about the roadmap using shower and I'll check it in to the website repo once it is completed.

[hengkiardo]

@mikeal i'm for Indonesia, especially for Jakarta.

[mikeal]

Our first slide deck is nearly ready, doing a review on Friday. https://github.com/iojs/website/issues/209

[oskwazir]

I'll cover Tucson,AZ and if possible nearby cities.

[stringparser]

I talk in Granada, Spain and maybe somewhere else nearby

By the way, loved this @mikeal

I'm getting asked to speak at damn near every meetup in the world about io.js but I don't scale.

Couldn't hold an honest laugh :)

[joeyguerra]

I'm in Dallas and would love to contribute to content and present in my area...

[dotproto]

Happy to help/support @jonathanong and @cloudbring on the Southern California beat.specifically I'm on the southern edge of Orange County.

[subfuzion]

I've been presenting on io.js a lot in 2015 and have placed a number of io.js slide decks on the io.js Evangelism wiki: https://github.com/nodejs/evangelism/wiki. I'm an organizer/presenter for BayNode and have also presented on io.js in San Francisco and overseas as well. I created the Node And Docker Online meetup last month to focus on the intersection of Node (specifically io.js) and Docker, and have held one live webcast to date: http://meetup.com/Node-and-Docker-Online-Meetup. So, yeah, you can definitely count on me if you need any help presenting or preparing content that can be shared with other presenters.