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• Mike Kanakos
PowerShell Summit

10 Tips for PowerShell Summit Presenters

PowerShell Summit 2020 is less than 60 days away! The list of presenters is final, and those presenters are putting finishing touches on their presentations. PowerShell Summit is a unique opportunity for presenters to show off their work to the community. For some, it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity, but it’s also a nerve-wracking experience for many. I have been lucky enough to be a presenter at Summit 2019. Now, I am on the team helping run the event. I am one of the few individuals who can say they were an attendee, a presenter and event planner for the summit. I thought I would offer some tips and advice for first-time presenters who are not sure what their first Summit presentation experience may be like. I’ve come up with a handful of tips that presenters can use to help prepare for PowerShell summit. The list reads like a top 10 list, but there’s no real order here. Rather, it is a list of useful things for presenters to consider as they prepare their work.

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• Don Jones
Books

Book: "Shell of an Idea," the Untold History of PowerShell

I’ve launched a new book project, which I’m hoping you’ll support: Shell of an Idea, the Untold History of PowerShell is now available for pre-purchase at a $10 discount on Leanpub. You’ll get the initial introductory chapters right now, and when I start pumping out the main manuscript in April-May 2020, you’ll get that too. The price will rise to the final $30 after the first 100 preorders, so don’t delay too much if you want in on the deal.
This is a big project, and it’s involving a few flights up to Redmond for sit-down interviews with key folks - hence the pre-order, to help fund those trips. I’m going all the way back in time to the earliest days of PowerShell Monad Babylon Kermit, yeah it went through a lot of names and concepts! I plan to fill this not only with interesting facts, but also personal anecdotes from the folks who were there, and some back-of-house stories about the inevitable politics and challenges the shell saw on its path to life.
I’m also collecting personal anecdotes from people who’ve been impacted by PowerShell. I’d love to hear about life before PowerShell (how easy was automation back then, and how important was it to you?), how PowerShell changed your job or career, or anything like that. I’ll weave all of that into the book too, because the story of PowerShell is mainly the story of the people who made it and the people who adopted it.
Thanks for your support, and tell a friend!

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