layout: true class: middle text-center <div class="footer">@rem // remysharp.com</div> --- class: bg-contain slide-about bottom background-image: url(/images/logos.jpg) # about:ffconf --- class: bg-contain middle hiremy background-image: url(/images/remy.jpg) # 👋 Hi, I'm Remy. ## 💾🎨 a software designer ??? This is me checking that I'm holding a laptop… This is where the depth of my knowledge exists --- class: bg-cover bg-bottom text-white background-image: url(/images/dukes.jpg) # This thing called ffconf ??? Describe what ffconf is: conference for web developers - Julie is the pratical side and implementer of everything that you can feel at the event - I am the creative side --- class: top bg-cover text-white text-left background-image: url(/images/snowman.jpg) # The back story ## …it was 2009… ??? - Julie was 10 steps ahead of me, being that she was at the time an events planner. --- class: bg-cover bottom background-image: url(/images/bar-menu.jpg) # It doesn't take a big machine ??? Minimum requirements: - Listing speakers - Possible sponsors - Venue search (original dingy hotel, then hotel du vin, then jedi mind trick) --- class: bg-contain top bg-white bg-bottom text-italic background-image: url(/images/footer.png) # Proud moments ??? - No single speaker has spoken twice, all have had their food, travel and accommodation paid for, and from 2012 all speakers were paid the same - From 2010 it was content curated - **Started a diversity scholarship**, which we set aside budget to cover tickets, travel and hotel for those who need it - including single mothers from Manchester, and a 10yr old girl who attended last year (who was 1 when we first ran our event in 2009!). And student tickets are £25 - Inspiring other events to create diversity programmes - Speaking at the 10th - Lifers and special gifts https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/398743294802673664 --- class: bg-contain text-white background-image: url(/images/ffconf-people.jpg) # The bits I love ??? - Coming up with the design palette for the site - Seeing those first tickets sell, and the buzz on twitter leading up it it - The tweets the morning of the event and seeing how people are travelling far and wide (we had a couple from NZ once!) - Meeting people at the post social and hearing how their day went - On stage at the end, and getting Julie and the kids up there - Prep work with the kids and how they're involved: it's a family run event --- class: bg-contain text-white background-image: url(/images/family.jpg) ??? - Events run from the heart - Have fancy technology, features, speakers, **but it's not that** - It's people - Making real connections. Sharing stories. My friends. - People ask me what ffconf stands for. - I like **future friends** conference. - ffconf, for me, is about people, and my family. --- class: bg-contain text-white slide-end background-image: url(/images/family.jpg) .strip[ # Thanks ## ffconf.org / @ffconf ]