I've been helping to curate the content for JSConf Colombia for three years now and I wanted to pass on some advice I've gathered these years. The first year I worked on the selection committee, which is the first round of voting in a two round process. My second year, I was on the content team and nominated someone for the committee as well as participated in the second round of voting (where we look at the top talks from the first round and curate talks based on which make most sense for our conference and audience). This year, I'm one of three directors for the conference as well as the leader of the content team (the first time in my life rising through any ranks! hahaha). In these three years I've probably read more than 800 CFPs and there's a few things that'll help you get picked for conferences
- Research the conference
- It's like when you're looking for a job, you want to make sure that a company wants you but you also wanna make sure that you want the company so make sure you research the