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Abstractions (conference)

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Abstractions is a software conference first held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, organized by Code & Supply, a local software community.[1]. The first Abstractions was held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center[2] on August 21–23, 2016[3] and had 1700 international attendees[4][5]. The conference’s attendees are software developers and other software professionals [6]

A second Abstractions conference is scheduled for August 2019 in Pittsburgh.[7]

Program

The event featured many prominent names in software delivering presentations.[8] Some of the notable names include: Joe Armstrong, Jono Bacon, Raffi Krikorian, Sandi Metz, Allison Randal, Richard Stallman, Larry Wall, and Jeffrey Zeldman. The conference had 134 sessions total.[9][10] Most sessions were presentations from a mix of invited speakers and sessions chosen from a call for proposal [11]. Some topics covered in the sessions include Nodejs, Kubernetes, Docker, Javascript, APIs, and open source software[12]


References

  1. Lyons, Kim (May 17, 2018). "Code & Supply is here for Pittsburgh's 'awesome' software community". Technical.ly. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
  2. "Abstractions". Visit Pittsburgh. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
  3. James, Jesse. "Jesse James Shares Some of His Highlights from the First Ever Abstractions conference in Pittsburgh". .net magazine. Retrieved November 26, 2018 – via PressReader.
  4. Slaby, MJ; Hughes, Sarah Anne (March 14, 2017). "Who's Next: Technology; These 18 people are transforming Pittsburgh". The Incline. Pittsburgh. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
  5. Gradeck, Bob (August 24, 2016). "Abstractions Reflections". Western Pittsburgh Regional Data Center. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
  6. Lyons, Kim (February 8, 2016). "Abstractions software conference will draw big developers to Pittsburgh". Retrieved November 26, 2018 – via Next Pittsburgh.
  7. Leswing, Kif (April 28, 2018). "Engineers from Apple and Google are loving this viral Twitter challenge about describing their job in 5 words". Business Insider. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
  8. "Tickets for Abstractions". Retrieved November 27, 2018 – via Showclix.
  9. Webb, Laura R. (2016-10-13). "Airtable, APIs, and Thinking Through a Problem". LRWebb.com. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  10. "Abstractions Schedule". Abstractions. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  11. Porter, Remy (2016-02-03). "The Abstractions Conference: Pittsburgh". The Daily WTF. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
  12. Nicholson, Deb. "New tech event, Abstractions is forward-thinking". Opensource.com. Retrieved November 26, 2018.


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