BestConferenceEver = KalamazooX
KalamazooX is the “non-technical conference for technical people”. It really is the best conference I’ve ever attended, and I go every year since the first one I went to – no …
Category: Conferences and UG Meetings
CodeMash 2016
CodeMash 2016 was awesome, as per usual. This year, I think we had a much larger turnout of testers than before. We even had some testing related open spaces! I …
Agile and Beyond 2015 recap
Storified here: https://storify.com/g33klady/agile-and-beyond-2015-recap Please forgive the giant image at the top – I can’t find a way to change it 🙁 It’s a loooooong post, a couple hundred tweets, so be …
KalamazooX 2015 recap
I put together my tweets and thoughts of KalamazooX 2015 on Storify here: https://storify.com/g33klady/kalamazoox-2015-recap HilaryI’m Hilary Weaver, also known as g33klady on the Internets. I’m a Senior Quality Engineer working remotely …
Introversion, social anxiety, and conferences
Just a warning that this is gonna get pretty honest and open about my introversion and depression. I’ve touched a bit on my social anxiety before, but not like this. …
Why user groups and networking are important
Starting a user group is probably the biggest challenge I’ve taken upon myself in a long time. Getting sponsorship and paying for it, finding a place to have it and …
On being a (not so newbie) speaker
A few months ago, I received an email from someone that attended my very first conference talk, at QA or the Highway in February. They were from $Company, and lead …
Testers meet up in Detroit – let’s do this!
Hey all – let’s get this going. If you’re interested in speaking – either full session, leading a workshop, or doing a lightning talk, let me know. I’ll get started …
Tester Drinkup in Columbus 6/15
Hi folks! I’ll be in Columbus speaking at Nationwide and Per Scholas on 6/16, but I’ll be getting into town 6/15 so let’s have a Testers Drinkup! Suggestions on a …
Care and Feeding of Needful Conference Goers
I’ve been asked a number of times by conference organizers for some help with feeding gluten free folks. So I decided to write up a few helpful tips – if …