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Happy days for Gwen Diagram and Veerle Verhagen hosting MoTaCon. They are the ultimate conference co-hosting combo. This brings me joy! ๐คฉ
Answers about podcasting are available on this collection: https://www.ministryoftesting.com/collections/ama-about-podcasting
Yet please do keep the questions coming.
Answers to the above questions are available on this collection: https://www.ministryoftesting.com/collections/ama-about-exploratory-testing
Yet please do keep the questions coming.
So glad to see Rahul will be running a workshop at MoTaCon. ๐คฉ
Context engineering is super important right now and I have a good feeling attendees will value learning from Rahul's expertise.
Bug congrats! ๐
Wonderful reflection and advice. Thank you for putting this into written form.
How would someone deal with a developer who was reluctant to take testing lessons from a tester/quality person?
Thanks for reading, Ady. I like that you could apply it to other situations.
Nice one, Sunitha.
We're glad you're part of the MoTaverse.
Yay for good tester/worst developer!
Team MoTaverse are a fan of yours. ๐๐ป
Simon Tomes
Community Lead at MoTaverse
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Hello, I'm Simon. Since 2003 I've had various roles in testing, tech leadership and coaching. I believe in the power of collaboration, creativity and community. ๐ MoT-STEC qualified. I get real joy working with and supporting our wonderful MoTaverse community.
โThanks for making me feel so confident about myself.โ | โI'm so grateful for all you do in the MoTaverse community, I learn so much as a result!โ | โA simple chat with Simon in person absolutely changed everything.โ | โSimon is one of the best people that I've ever met to have conversations with. He's so grounded in his way of thinking and articulates his thoughts so well and his feelings and his knowledge about community and everything.โ
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