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A guide to successful FOSS conference presentationsA guide to successful FOSS conference presentationsPosted Jul 9, 2010 22:18 UTC (Fri) by dowdle (subscriber, #659)Parent article: A guide to successful FOSS conference presentations
Other tips I've found helpful:
1) Do some hands-on if at all possible - Rather than just taking about something, try to show it too
2) Don't make your slides too fancy - It is easier to read big black text on a white background. If your presentation is being recorded, plain slides are much more readable on the recording.
3) Try to test your laptop out with the presentation system before hand. Don't wait mere minutes before it is to start to discover that the projector doesn't like your default resolution. This is especially important if you are using someone else's laptop are have not used it to give a presentation before.
4) If you are at a Linux conference, for goodness sakes... use Linux as the OS on the machine you are presenting with. If it is a loaner laptop and you don't have any choice, mention that to your audience so they won't assume you don't like Linux on the desktop. If it is not Linux specific but "open source / free software" oriented, try to use free software. Macs are for elitist smucks. If you are using both Windows and Microsoft Powerpoint for your presentation, make sure to apologize and if possible, have some gifts for your question asking audience.
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A guide to successful FOSS conference presentations Posted Jul 10, 2010 1:59 UTC (Sat) by achitnis (guest, #20) [Link]
This is ONE time that I totally disagree with an article being behind a subscriber-only firewall on LWN! This is stuff that needs to be out there, read by the rookies! NOW!
Great article!
Here's an old one by me on a a similar topic: http://foss.in/info/speaker-guide
A guide to successful FOSS conference presentations Posted Jul 10, 2010 3:07 UTC (Sat) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] I can only agree. But Our Esteemed Editor is dictator here.
A guide to successful FOSS conference presentations Posted Jul 10, 2010 3:18 UTC (Sat) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]
It will be out in a week and will not get outdated in that time. Meanwhile, mail it to all your friends and ask them to subscribe :)
A guide to successful FOSS conference presentations Posted Jul 12, 2010 12:04 UTC (Mon) by macson_g (subscriber, #12717) [Link] It will be out in a week AND it will be popular and widely read by LWN readers, because the [$] mark will indicate it as an article of good value.
A guide to successful FOSS conference presentations Posted Jul 15, 2010 13:49 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]
Doesn't the [$] mark disappear after that week?
A guide to successful FOSS conference presentations Posted Jul 10, 2010 3:54 UTC (Sat) by kartik (subscriber, #54526) [Link]
"Come prepared to give your talk with no slides at all." -- Lesson learned at foss.in :)
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