William R Ward wrote: > Besides, my "day job" is very important to me, and I'm not willing to > sacrifice that.
My day job sacrificed me, so I threw myself in the deep end. :-) > How do you get your name on the program? Don't you need to have > already established your name recognition first? I'd love to do that. You can get a track session slot fairly easily. Granted, conferences often get at least two submissions for every available slot, but there are always several half-baked proposals that are easy to surpass if you can write a coherent proposal and you have a good story to tell. Getting a half-day or full-day tutorial is much more difficult. There are far fewer slots available there, and a lot more politics involved. You have to know a lot about the market for that particular conference, and you need to talk to the people who run it. Attendees pay extra specifically for your tutorial, so the conference organizers will vet your proposals thoroughly. My big wins at conferences can all be traced back to name recognition, which is mostly based on my rambling around on the Internet. > Another approach that could work is to write a book. Yup. That's somewhere on my to-do list. I've got half a dozen book ideas bouncing around. > However the market for Perl books is > pretty well saturated by this point... Hmmm, good point! -- Danny Faught Tejas Software Consulting http://www.tejasconsulting.com
