The Ruby on Rails Podcast

Episode 263: 263: Abstractions and Generalist Strategy with Sarah Withee

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Sarah Withee is a polyglot software engineer, public speaker, and mentor located in Pittsburgh, PA. As the Director of Programming for Abstractions, a multi-disciplinary conference with an open CFP, Sarah offered advice for potential speakers and shared her thoughts on being a generalist.

Links for this episode:

  • Abstractions CFP
  • How to come up with conference proposal ideas
  • Sarah's Site
  • global diversity CFP day
  • Sarah on Twitter (@geekygirlsarah)
  • Abstractions on Twitter (@abstractionscon)
  • Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  • Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
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