I'd love to present at more conferences, but my topics only sort of fit your standard software conference.
- Getting Observability out of your monitoring system.
- Making on-call suck less.
- Dealing with immigrants from pathological cultures in your standup team.
@benhamill I've had trouble getting that one right. Yes, getting a new job because you want one less shitty and the new place looks like it actually cares leads to some problems common to other sorts of trauma survivors. Like, automatically assuming the worse motive of people and defending for it. Which looks to the unscarred like being a negative asshole. It *is* an immigration issue, but needs a better frame.
@sysadmin1138 Yeah. I often hear "refugees", but that's probably also a poor framing. Maybe "escape" is a good framing? People who have escaped pathological cultures? Hmm… it's hard.
@sysadmin1138 The first two totally fit many technical conferences.
@kurtm I sure think they do, but the CFP committies seem to think otherwise.
It doesn't help that the biggest conference I don't have to Hotel for doesn't really have ANY 'soft skills' track.
@sysadmin1138 i like 'em. They sound like they could be very interesting.
@phessler I'm great fun at ops-y conferences! There just not a lot of those around. DevOpsDays is the big one.
@sysadmin1138 the main *bsd conferences are half dev and half ops. Many of the Internet confs (RIPE, Apricot, ARIN, UKNOF, etc) are heavy on ops.
Monitorama might also be a good fit.
@sysadmin1138 Uh. I would attend any of those. I think those are pretty great topics for a software conference.
(I might suggest workshopping the title of the third one, though. At first I read, "Dealing with immigrants," and was like, "Excuse me what?!?").