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InnerSource – Using open source best practices to help your company
At Minnebar in March 2017, I spoke to developers about a way to improve their corporate cultures by piggy backing on some best practices from the open source community. It remains a topic that I believe in (at least of 2024), but one that remains difficult for large corporations to adopt.
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The Blessings and Curses of Offering a Free Public API
In 2016, I gave a presentation at API World. The topic was “The Blessings and Curses of Offering a Free Public API“. This was before Twitter made accessing their API a challenge, and Reddit also raised their API fees. Although the topic was appropriate for its time, the audience for this messaging was miniscule. It…
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Startup Presentation at Minnedemo 2013
In 2013, I was fortunate to present my startup – TrackIf – to an audience of 700 people at the fantastic Minnedemo event. It was the 2nd time that I was able to present, the previous being in 2006 for Fetchster (now LinkUp) – that was before anyone had the idea to start recording the…
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Jobseeking: As Tough as it Sounds?
In 2010, I had the chance to try a presentation at Ignite Minneapolis. I’m not particularly proud of this presentation, although I think the content itself stands the test of time. An Ignite Presentation puts you at the mercy of your PowerPoint. You have 5 minutes (after which your mic is turned off), and the…