PHP UK Conference 2019
20 - 22 Feb 2019
at The Brewery
Talk comments
I missed the first 10 minutes, and was still able to follow along and learn a great deal of useful information which i’m going to be able to use.
Great talk.
A very interesting talk, easy to follow for someone with no experience in the subject. Well delivered with some light hearted jokes throughout.
Very good. Nice to hear some people are struggling with serious maths too.
The font was too small on some slides or its contrast too low, last slide.
Please keep doing live demos, they bring excitement and realism into talks.
The topic is important but was not well presented.
Definitely not a keynote talk.
The first 15 minutes were setup to the message (how to improve communications within your company, especially with minorities and the less confident) and after they were done the speaker admitted that they weren’t necessary and were just filler to get to the talk.
Lack of representation is a huge problem in tech, but the delivery wasn’t strong enough to cut through.
He talked about the fact that he’s a remote worker, who hasn’t managed everyone or been in an office environment for some time, before giving recommendations about how to run meetings.
He talked about the fact that he’s not a fluent English speaker, and then gave recommendations about how to use the language.
These could both have been interesting points, but instead of saying “this is how I, as someone outside the privileged world have encountered problems and seen them solved”, he kept apologising about his lack of experience, before giving pronouncements about how to run things. Most of these were helpful, but a few were actively harmful to team-building (eg no usage of domain-specific terminology or, in-jokes).
The talk was also misadvertised. It wasn’t about learning from the Lego movie, but was about the problem of under-representation in tech. Which is a *huge* problem, and one which *does* need addressing. But if you’re pitching a talk as being about learning from the Lego movie, it needs to do that.
Badged as a talk about better representation and helping people who don’t fit with the dominant culture, and delivered with confidence and real-world examples, it could’ve been awesome.
Interesting and important talk!
Really informative and interesting!
Really good, insightful workshop. The instructor was very patient and helpful.
Useful and informative.
It felt like the last quarter of the day was a little rushed compared to the earlier parts; this may well have been because the speaker was very generous in taking questions in the first half of the day.