Saturday 3rd February was Global Diversity CFP Day. It was a day to help underrepresented groups with talk topics and proposal writing. Workshops were held all around the world. The Sydney chapter was led by Kris Howard and a group of mentors from the Sydney community (including myself) was there to help out.
On the day, we went through a short video on how to write a talk proposal, then divided the room into two groups: those with a talk idea started working on their abstract, and those without worked on coming up with a few ideas.
Ideation circle discussion happening! @gdcfpday pic.twitter.com/6gNKZ8A54l
— Kris Howard 💃 (@web_goddess) February 3, 2018
We also had a short session on how to write a bio, with some excellent tips from experienced speakers. As it’s often difficult to write about ourselves, people were paired up to interview each other and then came up with a bio about the other person. What a great idea!
Structure you can follow and questions you can ask yourself when writing your own bio. @gdcfpday pic.twitter.com/uAHpleMJYp
— Fiona Chan 🐳 (@mobywhale) February 3, 2018
Towards the end, anyone with a talk idea was encouraged to share it with the room. I was truly impressed by all of them!
As a meetup organiser, one of the hardest job is getting speakers. I really hope the workshop has given people some useful takeaways and that I’ll see their talks at a meetup or conference in the near future!
