proposals for 2019

packages/proposals/proposals/a-universal-design-system-substrate.md

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+# Title
+
+A Universal Design System Substrate
+
+# Description
+
+Design systems are tough to build and maintain across multiple UI
+surfaces and differing technologies. JavaScript gives us a gateway
+into reducing platform sprawl in our design systems. In this talk
+we'll cover API design that works everywhere, simplifying support to a
+single technology, and how to work with systems like WordPress once
+you've simplified your technical approach. The audience will walk away
+with the ability to simplify their design system efforts across
+typically disjointed mediums. The talk will use React for concrete
+examples, but the principles apply to other approaches as well.
+
+# Notes
+
+This talk builds on my experience building design systems at Docker,
+Dropbox, and working with clients. The goal of the talk is to paint a
+picture of a unified approach to design systems enabled by recent
+developments in the JavaScript ecosystem. By leaning on JS, we can
+vastly reduce the effort required to maintain sophisticated and high
+growth systems granting smaller teams higher leverage to achieve
+better results.

packages/proposals/proposals/lets-go-generate.md

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+# Title
+
+Let's Go, Generate!
+
+# Elevator Pitch
+
+> Please use go generate creatively. It's there to encourage experimentation.
+>
+> - Rob Pike
+
+Codegen is often thought of as mystical dark art but it's a powerful
+tool in the go toolbox. In this talk we'll demystify go:generate, and
+talk through interesting use cases in open source projects.
+
+# Description
+
+The audience will walk away from this talk equipped with the tools and
+conceptual framework they need to start using go:generate (and codegen
+in general) in their own libraries and applications. We'll cover the
+basics (what `go:generate` is, how it works, why using `go run` makes
+more sense than depending on other binaries) before advancing to
+investigating implementations in real-world open source projects like
+gqlgen, which uses codegen to maintain type safety in GraphQL
+APIs. Finally we'll touch on more advanced and creative codegen in
+projects like Kubernetes, which can generate clients and other API
+machinery using a universal DeepCopy method and has its own go package
+and comment syntax.

packages/proposals/proposals/styles-and-naming.md

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+# Title
+
+Styles and Naming
+
+# Description
+
+Building on Nicole's Object Oriented CSS in 2008, BEM
+in 2005-2010, and later Snook's SMACSS, CSS has a long and storied
+history of naming conventions that heavily affect code organization,
+design thinking, and maintenance. This talk will cover the evolution
+of naming conventions in CSS, the benefits they brought, and how the
+tools we use affect the way we think. The audience will come away with
+an understanding of how we got to where we are and how to evaluate the
+emerging crop of tools such as CSS Blocks, CSS Modules, and even
+CSS-in-JS.
+
+# Notes
+
+This talk takes a design systems viewpoint on styles and naming
+conventions using my experience building such systems at various
+startups over the last few years. As such, the overarching storyline
+will be related to how these tools and conventions impact our ability
+to deliver great user experiences through our languages and systems.

packages/proposals/submissions.org

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 | react-europe    | 2017 | advanced-static-sites                           |                  |
 | react-amsterdam | 2017 | demystifying-graphql-clients                    | <2017-04-21 Fri> |
 | qcon            | 2018 | rapidly-prototyping-with-graphql-and-prisma     | <2018-03-06 Tue> |
+| gothamgo        | 2019 | lets-go-generate                                |                  |
+| cssconfeu       | 2019 | styles-and-naming                               |                  |
+| jsconfeu        | 2019 | a-universal-design-system-substrate             |                  |