[grand-rapids-pm-list] Call for Speakers

[mheusser at charter.net]

Thank goodness this is perl mongers. Please forgive the typos in my one-off intro. :-)

--heusser
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The Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference (GLSEC) will be October 25/26 at the Prince Conference Center at Calvin College.

More information is available at www.glsec.org.  (Speaker info form is on the website)

If you are about software development and want to make a difference in west michigan, why not put in a application to speaker?

-heusser

Call for Speakers
To submit a presentation for consideration, fill out the Speaker Information Form and email to program at glsec.org

Proposals are due by Tuesday, July 31, 2006, and should fit one of the following broad categories:

Software Development
Management, Analysis, Process
QA and Testing
Special Topics

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Gathering and writing requirements 
White-box/unit testing 
Black-box/functioning testing 
Programming tutorials—Perl, C#, Ruby, etc. 
Test driven development 
Open-source solutions to programming problems 
Web development with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl) 
SQL—Intermediate, advanced, performance tuning, etc. 
Database design and data modeling 
Extreme programming 
Agile software development 
People issues in software development 
Software performance—from requirements to testing 
Exploratory testing 
Refactoring 
Design patterns 
Use cases 
Project scheduling 
Metrics 
Object-oriented development 
Reviews, walkthroughs and inspections 
Presenter Benefits
One complimentary conference registration will be given for each accepted track presentation. Additionally, a small stipend is available for tutorials. Track speakers also receive a 50 percent discount on tutorials.

Presentation Format
GLSEC 2006 will have four different presentation formats:

Full-day tutorial: A 6-hour presentation 
Half-day tutorial: A 3-hour presentation 
Track session: A 45-minute session, including 10 minutes for questions 
Lightning talks: A 5-minute presentation 
Tutorial slots can also be used for workshops which are more interactive, group-learning exercises.

Requirements
Tutorial instructors should provide a tutorial guide (it may correspond to the slides used in the presentation).

Notes on Submitting Presentations
To submit a presentation for consideration, fill out the Speaker Information Form and email to program at glsec.org or send paper to:

GLSE Conference
C/O Atomic Object
941 Wealthy SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49506 

The contact information you provide on this form will be used for future correspondence and should reflect a location where you can be reached throughout the conference planning period. Please notify us if your contact information changes. Applicants will by notified of acceptance in June of 2006.

Important Dates for Speakers
Submission Deadline: July 31, 2006 
Notification Date: Aug 15, 2006 
Speaker Materials Due Date: September 1, 2006 
Conference Dates: October 25-26, 2006


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Matthew Heusser, www.xndev.com
mheusser at charter.net
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