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A guide to successful FOSS conference presentationsA guide to successful FOSS conference presentationsPosted Jul 10, 2010 22:42 UTC (Sat) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)In reply to: A guide to successful FOSS conference presentations by dlang Parent article: A guide to successful FOSS conference presentations
I have taken the same view as my professors did in college. I stop the talk, and ask if the person would be better off getting wifi outside the room than in it.
Or put another way, your important time is worth just the same outside the room walls as it is in. The fact that you don't find the talk interesting does not mean you have the right to affect other people who might be enjoying it. [Especially the guy who took a conference call inside, but thankfully the other people were kind enough to take his phone and throw him out for me :)]
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A guide to successful FOSS conference presentations Posted Jul 10, 2010 23:02 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
and how do you tell the difference between someone taking notes on their laptop and someone reading e-mail?
are you also going to ask someone who is reading a book to leave the room? if not, why not? what about someone writing on a pad of paper? now what about someone doodling on the same pad of paper? now what about someone writng the Great American Novel on the same pad of paper? what about someone just sketching a picture?
taking a phone call is one thing, that requires making noise which directly prevents people from hearing you.
arguing that this distracts people around the person is both insulting to those people, and meaningless unless you are going to ban _everything_ that could be distracting.
all other ways of people doing things that aren't paying attention to you should be roughly equivalent. it shouldn't matter if they are using an electronic device or not.
if you have some other hold over the people (like grades in a classroom) you may be able to assert additional control of what they do, but nothing will prevent them from finding ways to do something else (comic books in textbooks is a perfect example of this)
A guide to successful FOSS conference presentations Posted Jul 11, 2010 11:16 UTC (Sun) by tonyblackwell (subscriber, #43641) [Link]
I like to type my own notes as a talk progresses; reasonably fast typist, helps me tremendously in going over the details of a talk if it had real information content. Valid point about not distracting others; I try and sit to the rear or side of a hall so no-one behind to be visually distracted.
Most impressive typing I've seen during a lecture was a chap throwing all his comprehensive typed points straight into bullet-point slides in real-time, ready for passing on the information to those who couldn't make it to the talk.
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