talks

Talks of mine at conferences and meetups

Keynotes

What is sustainable open source?

• Keynote at Evergreen Annual Conference, Remote, April 23, 2024

A rose by any other $variable

• Keynote at Interdisciplinary Open Practices Workshop, Burlington, VT, October 28, 2023

Talks

Mapping the Open Source Ecosystem for Climate Science and Sustainable Technology

• November 22, 2025
• In person
• Kiwi Pycon 2025
• Wellington, NZ

Codex Mutabilis: Preserving The Reasons For Changes In Scientific Names

• November 5, 2025
• In person
• Wellington, NZ
• iPRES 2025

Institutional Policy Pathways for Supporting Research Software: Global Trends, Local Actions

• Online, September 23, 2025
• With Michelle Barker of ReSA and PRO4RS
• NZ-RSE Conference
• PDF

[Write all the things? The process of collaboratively writing papers]

• Online, September 19, 2025
• Research Software Asia Australia Conference 2025
• PDF

Lūdente linguā: Language Use and Performance in Zoological Nomenclature

• August 29, 2025
• New Historians PHANZA Conference, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
• PDF
• PPTX

10 quick tips for making your software outlive your job

• 2025 IEEE Postgraduate Symposium Nz Central
• August 25, 2025
• PDF
• PPTX

OSS UN Sustainability

• August 5, 2025
• Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington Takahuri Sustainability Seminar Series
• PDF

PhD Proposal: Building Tools for Community Science Datasets to Model Bird Populations and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza

• Wellington, July 22, 2025
• Part of my formal PhD process
• PDF
• PPT

What’s in a name? Understanding scientific names for birds

• Auckland, June 1, 2025
• 85th Birds NZ Conference,
• [What’s in a name? Understanding scientific names for birds](./taxonomy/Littauer Taxonomy Talk.pdf)

Open Refine

• Christchurch, May 17, 2025
• NZ WikiCon 2025
• PDF

Open Source Lecture

• Wellington, March 2025
• Part of ENG 402
• PDF

From Core to A'Tuin: Citing Software all the way down the Stack

• US-RSE 2024, Albuquerque, NM, October 17, 2024

Using iNaturalist, eBird, and Python to become a community scientist

• Kiwi PyCon, Wellington, NZ, July 24, 2024
• Recording

eBird Seamounts Lightning Talk

• GUADEC, Denver, July 23, 2024
• Recording

Using FLOSS to plan your daily exercise by birding!

• SeaGL, Seattle, November 3, 2023.
• Recording

Gulls do gull: Using Node, D3, React and occasionally grep to get insight into bird subspecies distribution

• SeaGL, Seattle, November 4, 2023.
• Recording
• No slides.

Birds by Starlight: Tracking Nocturnal Flight Calls Using Open Source Software

• SeaGL, Seattle, November 6, 2021.
• No slides that I remember.

NVC over MVC

• Open Source Montréal, 2018

Hacking the Git protocol

• Polyhack Toronto, August 29, 2017

bootstrapping your flipflops

• Aerolab and Hacker Paradise, January 31, 2017

git yolo

• BrooklynJS, November 19, 2015
• ArcticJS, January 20, 2016. YouTube

name-your-contributors

• BostonJS, March 3, 2016

paperswelovebos-cryptography

• Papers We Love Boston, March 24, 2016

nomadism

• Hacker Paradise, June 30, 2016
• Hacker Paradise, January 14th, 2017

multiformats && ipfs-mtl

• Decentralized Web Montreal, March 20, 2016
• Note: I never got to talk about Multiformats (time)
• Note: The IPFS slides were borrowed from @jbenet from IPFS

Standard README

• Node.js LIVE, Washington DC. October 26, 2016
• Nodefest.jp, Tokyo, Japan, November 13, 2016
• JS Montreal, Montreal, April 11, 2016