Brian Sinclair brianarn

Speaker Rider

Last updated 14 April 2021

What is a speaker rider?

As speaking comes with immense privilege, I have crafted a speaker rider to set expectations and boundaries around my engagement. I am grateful to all the conference organisers who have brilliantly hosted me. I would love to continue to exercise this privilege to speak at conferences, and use this privilege to make the landscape more accessible and beneficial to tech's most historically excluded and marginalised communities.

Considerations

😫 I provide a lot of explanations for those of you who never had to consider these things. Most thoughtful conferences I've attended check most of these boxes intrinsically, particularly when conference runners are experienced speakers. They get it.

Meownica's packing list

I travel a lot so I'm down to like 30 minutes of packing per any kind of trip. I always bring one carry-on suitcase for any trips up to 2 weeks (that I never check in unless forced) -- I have an Away suitcase because it's got a built-in (removable) battery, and amazing wheels.

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🆔Wallet & Passport
💧Travel water bottle
💳Travel credit cards (don't pay foreign currency fees!)
💳Insurance cards
💵Local currency you have
🚎Local public transport cards

Collaborative

i said a hip hop (old school vibe): https://open.spotify.com/user/helenhousandi/playlist/2LET2901xHzy31zExZf3x6
2000s (hip-hop/rap focused): https://open.spotify.com/user/helenhousandi/playlist/2GX7oshVtXkYz0fXDQ859I
Slow Jams (needs work): https://open.spotify.com/user/helenhousandi/playlist/0u8eQV3ktOjndsv4KrgflE
R&B thing (bit of a dumping ground right now): https://open.spotify.com/user/helenhousandi/playlist/1L0wSOpiPSD9rEhUVugsfJ
leggo (party playlist): https://open.spotify.com/user/helenhousandi/playlist/13YXwge7rAXnOSXPxKE35L

Other

two up two down (my VA artist playlist, a lot of stuff doesn't show because they're local files) https://open.spotify.com/user/helenhousandi/playlist/2tSDB3z1IVVG5CxkHVUa6b
throwback (includes plenty of nostalgic garbage): https://open.spotify.com/user/helenhousandi/playlist/7DNEzTGNsc0MIvLhBZEYqT

JSConf Slides, Codes and Notes

These are all the JSConf 2014 slides, codes, and notes I was able to cull together from twitter. Thanks to the speakers who posted them and thanks to @chantastic for posting his wonderful notes.

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# vim: set fileencoding=utf-8
	#
	# USAGE:
	# Back up your tmux old config, run the script and redirect stdout to your conf
	# file. Example:
	#
	# $ cp ~/.tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf.orig
	# $ python ./tmux-migrate-options.py ~/.tmux.conf.orig > ~/.tmux.conf
	#

	#!/bin/bash

	# Args: input video file, start time in HH:MM:SS, duration in seconds, output
	# gif file.

	# Tmpdir
	rm -rf /tmp/video2gif
	mkdir /tmp/video2gif

	mplayer -nosub -ao null -ss "$2" -endpos "$3" "$1" -vo jpeg:outdir=/tmp/video2gif:quality=100

	# Description: Boxstarter Script
	# Author: Jess Frazelle <[email protected]>
	# Last Updated: 2017-09-11
	#
	# Install boxstarter:
	# . { iwr -useb http://boxstarter.org/bootstrapper.ps1 } \| iex; get-boxstarter -Force
	#
	# You might need to set: Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
	#
	# Run this boxstarter by calling the following from an elevated command-prompt:

	# Backup
	docker exec CONTAINER /usr/bin/mysqldump -u root --password=root DATABASE > backup.sql

	# Restore
	cat backup.sql \| docker exec -i CONTAINER /usr/bin/mysql -u root --password=root DATABASE

	//
	// README:
	// - Listens for PUSH events
	// - Fetches the ref pushed via the given remote
	// - Sets the repositories HEAD to latest ref
	// - Checks out the new HEAD (--force)
	// - Install dependencies from package.json
	// - Calls `npm run reload` (My app uses this)
	// - Calls `nginx -s reload` (My app also uses this)
	//

	var j5 = require('johnny-five');
	var Leds = require('./leds').Leds;
	var board = new j5.Board();
	var delay = 20;

	var leds;

	board.on('ready', function() {
	leds = new Leds(4, 13);
	var button = new j5.Button(2);