Hiking and Hacking: Two Sides of the Same Coin

[jbafford]

About You

Your Name:
John Bafford

Twitter handle (optional):
@jbafford

The best way to reach out to you:
email: john at bafford dot com

A quick bio:
John is a freelance software developer with over 20 years of experience in web, desktop, and mobile app development. He also enjoys long-distance hiking, having hiked over 5,000 miles over the last three years.

Your Talk

Title:
Hiking and Hacking: Two Sides of the Same Coin

What your talk is about:
While hiking the 2,200-mile long Appalachian Trail, I realized that planning and executing a long-distance hike involves many of the same skills and challenges as developing software. In this talk, I’ll join these two disparate worlds you wouldn’t have thought have everything in common.

This talk is a motivational, non-technical talk.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No, but I am open to suggestions on improving the title

Previously Presented
Versions of this talk have been given at php[tek] 2017, the DC PHP meetup, The Joy of Programming meetup, and Django District.

[stale]

Hi there — thanks for submitting this talk! It’s been a year since the last activity — would you mind taking a look to see if you’re still interested in presenting about this topic, and if the talk’s content is still up-to-date?

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If you’re no longer interested in giving this talk, or the talk is out-of-date, feel free to close this issue.

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Thanks for your contribution to the tech community in DC!

[jbafford]

This talk is still available for presentation.

[stale]

Hi there — thanks for submitting this talk! It’s been a year since the last activity — would you mind taking a look to see if you’re still interested in presenting about this topic, and if the talk’s content is still up-to-date?

If everything’s still good, just drop a comment here and I’ll pop back into hibernation like a good little robot.

If you’re no longer interested in giving this talk, or the talk is out-of-date, feel free to close this issue.

Should I not hear back in a week, I’ll close this issue so you needn’t feel guilty about it. ❤️

Thanks for your contribution to the tech community in DC!