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Daisuke asked me to translate a phrase into Latin for him:

“with technology we live, better future we build” I’m sort of planning my post-YAPC conf, and I want it to attract “People Who Build Stuff”

We live with technology, we build a better future? Is there an implied (or actual) causality between the two phrases? "“with technology we live, THEREFORE better future we build” ? It may matter for which verb mood is selected.

I guess there could be… but I wasn’t strongly trying to emphasize it!

To give you a bit more perspective on what I’m trying to do… builderscon.io

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Title Ideas:

• The 10 Habits of Highly Effective Speakers
• The 10 Commandments of Effective Speaking
• The 10 Practices of Great Technical Speakers
• 10 Steps To a Great Talk
• A 10 Step Program For Great Tech Talks <-- BOOM. There it is.

Eulogy quip? (most Americans would rather be in the coffin than deliveriny the eulogy)

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Events

• YAPC::NA
• YAPC::EU
• YAPC::SA
• Perl Oasis (on hiatus)
• London Perl Workshop
• Pittsburgh Perl Workshop
• DC Perl Workshop
• Perl QA Hackathon

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Business of Community series which I authored for opensource.com

• How community building can help an organization's bottom line; March 21, 2016
• Why community managers must wade (not dive) into communities; March 23, 2016
• How to hurdle community management obstacles; March 25, 2016
• 16 resources for measuring open source community ROI; March 21, 2016

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# Template emails

Some template emails to use when approving membership requests.

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## Brief and informal

Dear $name,

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FLOSS Foundations membership and moderation policies & process

The FLOSS Foundations list admin interface is https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/admin/foundations.

The current list of moderators is:

• Allison Randal
• Dave Neary
• Michael Meeks
• VM Brasseur

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Builderscon thoughts

Re: this file from Daisuke.

The English isn't entirely smooth in places, but meh.

Is it really necessary to list an age range when discussing the attendees?

Ooh…framework. Nice.

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Tibbs recently graduated from the University of West of Scotland with a degree in computer security. She has relocated to Portland, OR, where she evangelizes for privacy and security while doing ops work for Portland General Electric. She is passionate about encouraging small children to take the plunge into STEM and about cats on the internet, often at the same time.

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Rex would like a Latin translation of "Learn lest you die" to use for a crest for his father. He'd like it to be as short as possible to minimize the amount of calligraphy he has to do.

I'm thinking it might be something along the lines of $verb $negator $verb for "learn so that you not die".

The first verb will have to be an imperative. It's fairly commanding: "You there! Learn!"

Pretty sure the second one would be a ne plus a subjunctive. Yeah, that appears to be the case. It's a dependent purpose clause, which requires a subjunctive. ne is definitely the negator for a subjunctive in this case so, bully for me.

So, the breakdown will be: