Note: This page is being continually updated. Don’t miss the lessons learned at the end.
How I became a tech writer, and what happened after that
1988
1991
1993
1996
1998
1999
2000
2001
2005
2006
2007
^ Intervista al RomeCamp, a cura di Elisabetta Locatelli per dolmedia.tv.
- (Some of) What I did at TVBLOB
- My history in customer service
- Sun Broomfield August
- SNIA SDC September – the first conference I filmed for Sun
- Web Women Weekend, Lecco, October
2008
- Open Source Grid & Cluster Summit, Oakland
- Sun Community One, San Francisco, May
- The OpenSolaris Developers’ Summit, Santa Cruz, May
- Go Game at the OpenSolaris Developers’ Summit
- Visiting Sun Bangalore
- Bollywood, Bangalore
- Open Storage Summit
- Sun offices in Eagan, MN October
- Sun’s SC08 Student Party, Austin, November
2009
- The First Colorado Front Range Girl Geeks Dinner, Broomfield, March
- South by Southwest, Austin, March
- CommunityOne, San Francisco, May
- Innovating Employee Engagement/Executing Social Media for Internal Communications, Chicago, June – invited speaker on Utilizing Social Media Tools to Build Engagement and Community
- FISL – Porto Alegre, Brazil, June – co-speaker on Using Video to Communicate About Open Software
- New Zealand Ministry of Education, Wellington, New Zealand, July 2009 – series of presentations on social media and video
- Kernel Conference Australia, Brisbane, July
- Community Leadership Summit and OSCON, San Jose, July
- Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing – poster session on video, Ariza. Also interviewed about video and community for Ed & Ashley’s 5 Minute Show.
- Oracle Open World, San Francisco, October
- Front Range OpenSolaris user group meeting, Broomfield, October
- Solaris Security Summit at LISA, Baltimore, November
- SuperComputing
2010
- Community Leadership Summit West, Bay Area, January – Unconference session leader, Community Video
- NAB, Las Vegas, April
- Workshop: The Changing Role of Technology Marketers – WITI Summit, Santa Clara, June
- Sun Product Management Team meetings, MPK
- The last Sun Tech Days, Hyderabad
- Farewell, MPK – August
- Employees Making Videos webinar for Communitelligence
- Oracle Open World, San Francisco, October
- LISA 10, Santa Clara
- The Faces of Sun farewell video, November
2011
2012
2013
- Open ZFS Developer Summit
- Marketing your tech talent at the Monktoberfest
- LISA 13 and metrics workshop
- Women in Advanced Computing Panel, USENIX LISA 13
2014
- Joyent retrospective May
- Joined Ericsson
- Stockholm June
- Marketing your tech talent talk at OSCON
- That marketing thing (that I do)
- Netflix 50M Party September
- Stockholm and Ericsson September
- OpenStack Summit Paris
- LISA
2015
[more to add here]
2016
- The Techies Project, April
- Visit to Facebook’s Prineville Data Center, August
2017
- Dockercon
- First week at AWS, Seattle, June
- Netflix 100M Party, June
- AWS Evangelists’ Summit, Seattle, July
- Marketing Your Open Source Project, Linux Foundation Open Source Summit, Los Angeles, September (not filmed, but there’s a writeup and slides)
2018
- Marketing Your Open Source Project (the AWS version), Southern California Area Linux Expo, Pasadena, March
- AWS Summit Milan, March
- I Will Survive: How Deirdré Straughan Built a Career in Tech Without Being An Engineer, May 2018 (I was a guest/interviewee on my friend Melinda Byerley‘s podcast, Stayin’ Alive in Tech)
- EkoSystem Day, San Francisco
- Amazon Linux 2 launch, San Francisco
- Unconference session on marketing open source at the Community Leadership Summit, Portland, July
- VMworld, Las Vegas, August
- Dreamforce, San Francisco, September
- My Career Evolution from Tech Writer to… Many Things, internal Amazon tech writers’ conference, Seattle, October
- All Things Open – Marketing Your Open Source Project, Raleigh, October
2019
- Marketing Your Open Source Project, AWS Summit Berlin, February
- Marketing Your Open Source Project, AWS Summit Milan, March
^ Marketing Your Open Source Project, OSCON, July – slides
- Marketing Open Source (builders’ session), re:Invent, Las Vegas, December
2020
2021
Lessons learned
About being a woman in tech
- The Bi-Professional Couple: A Conundrum Close to the Bone
- Twenty Years of Being a Woman at Tech Events
- Sex and Tech
- Giving Women Credit
- Men, Women, and Salary Negotiation
- Toxic Things I Once Believed
- Remote work (or lack of it) is a diversity issue
About tech in general
- Letting Go of a Beloved Technology
- Red flags in interviewing: How do they treat wait staff?
- “You Can Always Go to a Startup”
- Problematic employers in tech
Remote work
Long-Distance Working – A Tale of Two Companies
Remote work, in good times and in bad
Remote work (or lack of it) is a diversity issue