[NYCBSDCon] presentations

[Wiley, Glen]

We found that switching to speakers laptops took about 5 minutes on
average during vBSDcon and it seemed to fit naturally with the breaks we
had between talks.  Those breaks were important for ensuring that folks
had a chance to chatter about what they just heard and to give them a
chance to leverage personal connections related to the topic.  We got a
lot of positive feedback on the hallway track.

Another problem we had was that many presenters were finishing their
slides up to the last minute so they simply didn't have them ready to put
on a common laptop until they were on their way up to the stage.
-- 
Glen Wiley
KK4SFV

Sr. Engineer
The Hive, Verisign, Inc.




On 11/20/13 10:00 AM, "Patrick McEvoy" <patmcevoy at mac.com> wrote:

>I would like to ask all presenters to use the same presentation laptop.
>It would make the transitions between talks go much smoother.
>Last time we lost some momentum dealing with video sync issues. We could
>put together a laptop with multiple slide presentation programs and
>collect the talks from the presenters beforehand. It would make it
>easier to record the slides during presentations and help the con move
>smoothly.
>I would like to talk about this early as to have the presentations run
>as smoothly as possible and to solicit any additional ideas from
>presenters
>
>
>Presentations applications would include:
>
>Open Office (NeoOffice if Presentation machine is a Mac)
>MS Office (PowerPoint)
>KeyNote (Again if Presentation machine is a Mac)
>Adobe Acrobat Reader (and additional PDF readers if requested)
>
>Additional:
>-Connection to the internet for Google slides and any additional online
>presentation options.
>
>** Please add your thoughts.
>
>
>P
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