[NYCBSDCon] presentations

[Bill Totman]

On 11/20/13, 10:29 AM, "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas at michaelwlucas.com>
wrote:


>On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:00:50AM -0500, Patrick McEvoy 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
>
>
>As a frequent speaker, I'd say:
>
>Ask and offer, don't demand.

That sounds reasonable.

>
>I always have my slides in PDF, because I frequently have
>issues. Stupid issues nobody else has. (It would probably help if I
>knew what I was doing.)
>
>It's not a big deal to tell people that there's a presentation laptop
>with X available, and that you'd appreciate it if they could bring a
>USB stick. Yes, some people will be copying to USB as the last
>presentation finishes.

We should definitely have backup laptops & USB ready to go.

-bt

>
>But if they have a legit reason, let them use their own.
>
>Although I will say: at NYCBSDCon 2010, when my laptop had trouble, I
>used someone else's. And the PDF reader automatically advanced slides,
>thanks to some overly clever Apple thing that I probably activated
>when I waved my hand over the keyboard. Whatever that is... turn it
>off before I get there, thank you.
>
>Keep the 5-minute break. If the presentation laptop is there, I have
>an extra 4 minutes to finish my slides...
>
>==ml
>
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