Talks & Interviews

Deirdré speaking on "Marketing your open source project" at OSCON

Marketing Open Source (builders’ session), re:Invent, December 2019

Marketing Your Open Source Project, OSCON, July 2019 – slides

Marketing Your Open Source Project, AWS Summit Milan, March 2019

Marketing Your Open Source Project, AWS Summit Berlin, February 2019

Marketing Your Open Source Project, All Things Open, October 2018

My Career Evolution from Tech Writer to… Many Things, internal Amazon tech writers’ conference, October 2018

Unconference session on marketing open source at the Community Leadership Summit, July 2018

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)

Marketing Your Open Source Project (the AWS version), Southern California Area Linux Expo, March 2018

Marketing Your Open Source Project, Linux Foundation Open Source Summit, Sept 2017 (not filmed, but there’s a writeup and slides)

Marketing Your Tech Talent (version for technical people), OSCON, July 2014

Panelist at the Friends of Woodstock School Annual Meeting and Reunion
July 11-14, 2014, themed “Woodstock in the World”

Women in Advanced Computing Panel, USENIX LISA 13, Nov 2013

Americans in India – Woodstock School, interview on the Kamla Show, Nov 2013

Marketing Your Tech Talent (version for marketers) The Monktoberfest, Oct, 2013

Using Video to Communicate Technology – FISL, July 2012

Workshop: The Changing Role of Technology Marketers – WITI Summit, June 2012

Employees Making Videos webinar, Sept, 2010

Unconference session leader, Community Video – CLS West, January 2010

Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, 2009 – poster session on video, also interviewed about video and community for Ed & Ashley’s 5 Minute Show.

Community Leadership Summit, July 2009 – led an unconference session on Community Video

New Zealand Ministry of Education, Wellington, New Zealand, July 2009 – series of presentations on social media and video

FISL, Porto Alegre, Brazil, June 2009 – co-speaker on Using Video to Communicate About Open Software

Innovating Employee Engagement/Executing Social Media for Internal Communications, Chicago, June 2009 – invited speaker on Utilizing Social Media Tools to Build Engagement and Community

Girl Geek Dinner, Colorado, March 2009 – slides

2007 – intervista al RomeCamp, a cura di Elisabetta Locatelli per dolmedia.tv.