How We Build SRCCON Events

We put a great deal of emphasis in capturing the work involved in putting SRCCON together. Here’s our ongoing series of documentation on the logistics and thinking that go into SRCCON events.

Sessions & Proposals

• SRCCON Facilitator Guide: How to Run a Great Session
• SRCCON Proposal Guide: How to Craft a Great Session Pitch
• How We Facilitated A Huge, Participatory, Highly Charged SRCCON Session
• 3 Ways to Facilitate a Great Conference Session
• Five Things We’ve Learned About Sessions
• How to Plan a Great SRCCON Session

Participant Experience

• SRCCON Participant Guide: How to Have a Great Time at SRCCON
• Why You Want a Code of Conduct & How We Made One
• Making SRCCON Good for Humans
• Thursday Nights at SRCCON

Logistics

• Why We Wrote Our SRCCON Proposals Guide
• Why We Expanded Our Scholarship Program
• How We Planned & Ran the SRCCON Travel Scholarships
• SRCCON Ticketing: What We Did and Why
• Why You Want a Code of Conduct & How We Made One
• The SRCCON Ticket Lottery: What we Learned
• Captioning a Multi-Track Conference - How SRCCON Did It

Other Resources & Inspiration

• 2015 Will Be the Year You Pitch a NICAR Lightning Talk by Sisi Wei
• Alcohol and Inclusivity: Planning Tech Events with Non-Alcoholic Options by Kara Sowles
• Anti-Harassment Policies from the Ada Initiative
• Convention Tension by Jenn Bane & Trin Garritano
• Help People Afford to Attend Your Conference by Ashe Dryden
• Hire More Women in Tech by Karen Schoellkopf
• How Much It Cost Us to Make More Attendees Feel Safe and Welcome at .concat() 2015 by Stephan Bönnemann
• HOWTO Design a Code of Conduct for Your Community from the Ada Initiative
• Increasing Diversity at Your Conference by Ashe Dryden
• We Are All Awesome by Tiffany Conroy
• You Can Choose Who Submits Talks to Your Conference by Julia Evans
• Your Next Conference Should Have Real-Time Captioning by Lindsey Kuper