Members of the organising teams of all four major Elm conferences – elm-conf, Elm In The Spring, Elm Europe, and Oslo Elm Day – come together to discuss what goes into a successful Elm conference, the lessons they've learned along the way, and what we can expect at their next conference!
Members of the organising teams of all four major Elm conferences – elm-conf, Elm In The Spring, Elm Europe, and Oslo Elm Day – come together to discuss what goes into a successful Elm conference, the lessons they've learned along the way, and what we can expect at their next conference!
Thank you to our sponsors, Ellie, Culture Amp and Joel Clermont.
Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode!
Recording date: 14 April 2019
00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:50 Sponsors
00:06:53 Blake: How Elm In The Spring got started
00:08:43 Danielle: How they joined NoRedInk and elm-conf
00:10:08 Thibault: How teaching led to Elm Europe
00:11:53 Erik: Oslo Elm Day was “the ambitious approach”
00:14:30 Blind CFPs and curating for diversity
00:27:13 Doing it all again next year
00:29:35 The organising teams
00:31:04 Elm In The Spring coming up soon
00:32:39 Blind CFPs and curating for diversity (part 2)
00:35:44 The organising teams (part 2)
00:39:06 Lessons: Respect the schedule
00:41:55 Lessons: Audience Q&A is usually a bad idea
00:45:37 Evan and Richard’s involvement
00:48:29 Elm Europe coming up in June
00:49:01 Be there for the hallway track
00:52:35 Speaking at a conferece
00:54:38 Outro