About this page

This submission site is designed to elicit presentation proposals from Ignite presenters.

Why not just use a Google form?

As your Ignite gets more popular, you may find that you get more submissions from people who've never attended your event. They may be semi-professional speakers who submit proposals to speak everywhere.

This can lead to people trying to sell from the stage (which the audience hates) and presenters who have no idea about the 20-slide x 15-second rule of Ignite.

This submission site helps by forcing presenters to slow down, and read a bit of information about Ignite before they submit their proposal.

Won't we lose presenters if we make it too hard?

If presenters can't be bothered to click through 4 short pages, they probably don't have the stamina and dedication to prepare and deliver a good Ignite talk, right?

How to use this site

• download the code to your computer
• open the files in your favourite code editor (or use Notepad/TextEdit)
• search for IgniteXYZ and replace it with your Ignite name
• search for CHANGE_ME and change to a meaningful value
• see the Social Media section at the top of the index.html file and make any changes as necessary. Use these links to test how the page will look on Facebook and Twitter
• create a form in Google Drive, and add the questions you want to ask of your presenters:
• update the section GOOGLE_FORM_LINK in page3.html with the URL to the Google form
• upload the entire directory to your web server. A suggestion is to make a subdirectory such as http://IgniteXYZ.com/submit
• share the link http://IgniteXYZ.com/submit with your potential presenters
• the submissions will go into the Google form (you can set a notification to email you when they arrive)

This content is shared under the MIT license.