speakers.io will connect speakers and conferences

Check out my post about speakers.io:

speakers.io will connect speakers and conferences tl;dr: speakers.io is an app to connect speakers and conferences. It’s going to be awesome. I’ve been a conference organizer for almost 6 years now (and a speaker for slightly longer), and year after year I’ve hit the same points of friction in my work. Seeing someone encounter the same thing with BritRuby made me realize that we could fix it! Partially, at least. An aside about BritRuby I had a long diatribe written about how everyone should stop forcing their priorities on event organizers and likewise organizers should find ways to include more people and people shouldn’t whine about people being passionate about diversity, but really it can just boil down to this: stop being a jerk . If you think that statement could be about you, then it probably is. So, stop it. And let’s get back to organizing mindblowing Ruby events...

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