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Open Conference Expectations

For conferences, it's extremely important that attendees get top-quality content from industry experts. As a highly compelling format of educating others based on experience and research, conferences stand to be one the best sources of refined knowledge available. Still, it's important for a successful event to have a few guidelines to ensure quality content from the best and most appropriate speakers. Below is a set of guidelines for conference organizers that ensure quality content for attendees and the community.

What We, As Speakers, Expect from Conferences

1. Video recordings: Organizers should prioritize recording all talks and sessions. A conference that only teaches the ~300 people in the room has constrained value and is not worthwhile to a speaker who wants to benefit the community. When recorded, video will be available online under a permissive license (CC-BY-*) within six months of the event.

2. Travel reimbursement: Conferences will reimburse travel

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# for more info: https://gist.github.com/1120938

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#!/bin/bash 
# A simple script to backup an organization's GitHub repositories.

GHBU_BACKUP_DIR=${GHBU_BACKUP_DIR-"github-backups"}                  # where to place the backup files
GHBU_ORG=${GHBU_ORG-"<CHANGE-ME>"}                                   # the GitHub organization whose repos will be backed up
GHBU_UNAME=${GHBU_UNAME-"<CHANGE-ME>"}                               # the username of a GitHub account (to use with the GitHub API)
GHBU_PASSWD=${GHBU_PASSWD-"<CHANGE-ME>"}                             # the password for that account 
GHBU_GITHOST=${GHBU_GITHOST-"<CHANGE-ME>.github.com"}                # the GitHub hostname (see notes)
GHBU_PRUNE_OLD=${GHBU_PRUNE_OLD-true}                                # when `true`, old backups will be deleted
GHBU_PRUNE_AFTER_N_DAYS=${GHBU_PRUNE_AFTER_N_DAYS-3}                 # the min age (in days) of backup files to delete

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# How Clearance / Hoptoad does it
module Clearance
  class << self
    attr_accessor :configuration
  end

  def self.configure
    self.configuration ||= Configuration.new
    yield(configuration)
  end