Simon works at we::code in Enschede, Netherlands and has been working with SilverStripe for 6 years. He presented at StripeCon in London on his experiences organizing and attending the conference. Some of the topics he discussed included planning and logistics, sessions, sponsors, and the after hours social activities. Looking ahead, he hopes to share photos and videos from the conference online and potentially meet up for beers with other attendees in the future.

1. Hello,
My name is Simon
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2. Who am I
Slightly crazy
Rude
Work at we::code
Live in Enschede, Netherlands
Two cats, Dodge & Tesla
Working with SilverStripe for 6 years
I’m not antisocial, I’m just not user friendly
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3. Sorry, here are some better pictures
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4. Now that you know who I am
Most presentations have some sort of ToC.
Behind the scenes at StripeCon.
The conference
I’m going to be talking
Looking back
What is StripeCon about
After hours
What’s next 42

5. Behind the scenes at StripeCon
Getting started
Organisation
Calling and e-mailing and chat
Did I already mention a lot of calling, e-mailing and chatting?
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6. The conference
How this year got started
Why we chose for London
How I got to the Rainmaking Loft
You were there, so…
What did you miss
What did you like
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7. Please keep talking until I come up with the next top
icPlanning ahead is everything
Having someone at location is a must
Errrr….
Food and drinks
Budget
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8. What have we learned
Ecommerce
Lightning talks
and how not to run behat tests
Edit core files (or maybe not)
SilverStripe Platform
Rant about customers
And faster database functionality
And that’s just friday
● Breakfast!
● Deployments, frontend workflow
● And a lovely terminal
● And leave the CMS out
● Bulletpoints always go left
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9. What is StripeCon about
Some stories of things that happened
Meeting people
Learning new things
Do new things
And of course, SilverStripe
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10. Sponsors (and logos)
SilverStripe
7DOTS
JetBrains licenses
FTPloy licenses
BigFork
CSL
Twisted Bytes
Create Film&Video

11. After hours
What happens at the pub, stays at the pub
Yep, beers! More beers!
And possibly too much beers
And Pizza
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12. What’s next
Photos and videos online
No after-conference hacking at hackerspace
But maybe a beer?
Next year?

13. Thank you
Here are some places you can try to find me
github: github.com/Firesphere
twitter: @SphereSilver
real world: Netherlands, currently
irc: Depends on my mood, but should contain something with ‘Sphere’ in it
speakerdeck: speakerdeck.com/firesphere (nothing there yet)
Ow, and do not forget to visit this URL: goo.gl/QPFWx0 (It’s case-sensitive)
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