From m.keating at shadowcat.co.uk Fri May 22 12:10:50 2015 From: m.keating at shadowcat.co.uk (Mark Keating) Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 13:10:50 +0100 Subject: [northwestengland.pm] Dynamic Languages Conference Message-ID: <555F1CCA.3040200@shadowcat.co.uk> Good afternoon all, please forgive me for sending a promotional item to the list but it is for an Open Technology conference in the North West: --- It is just a few weeks away to the Dynamic Languages conference on Saturday 20th June 2015 at the Studio, Manchester. The call for speakers is still open and we are accepting talks from any Dynamic Language on any subject. To submit a talk, gain more information or ask about sponsorship contact Jane (office at flossuk.org) or Mark (m.keating at shadowcat.co.uk). The Dynamic languages Conference works as an Open Technology Event with the aim of collaboration across cultures and disciplines. Already confirmed keynotes and workshops include: Lorna Mitchell Your Open Source Journey Who are you and what is your open source journey? We all came to this shared experience by different routes, but the way that we find our way in the technical communities shapes both our future and the future of those communities. Come and reflect on your place, your path and your future. Gianni Ciolli Using Postgres with Any Language Dr Ciolli, a developer and researcher with 2nd Quadrant, will discuss how you can use the PostgreSQL Database as a support for multiple languages as an example system agnosticism. He will even discuss how to re-use any component to easily fit different languages. Rick Deller Rick Deller of Eligo wil present two workshops: Workshop 1 ? Writing an Engaging CV and Conducting yourself at Interview How to format and shape your CV ? Selling yourself on Paper ? Creating / developing your brand on your CV ? Securing yourself an interview ? Continual Brand awareness ? Telephone interview technique ? Face to Face Interview technique ? Closing Worksop 2 ? Dealing with Agencies and Understanding their benefit Initial conduct ? Building repot with agents ? Understanding the benefit of agent / how they work ? Pushing back on agent ? Ensuring you get what you want when applying for a job through agent ? Maintaining you Brand ? Dealing with interviews through agents ? Closing Agents Book your Tickets, avoid disappointment: you can get your tickets on EventBrite (http://bit.ly/dl2015tickets), it will take a few moments to just visit and book online today. The ticket covers entry, workshops and a lunch. There will be a private bar reserved on the Friday Evening before the event sponsored by Eligo (bar not drinks): Date: Friday 19^th June 2015 Time: 7pm onwards Venue - Britannia Hotel, Portland St, Manchester M1 3LA (We have reserved a room with a bar for which will hold up to 40 people, however bar is next door so we have overflow) ---- Thanks all. -mdk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: