[NYCBSDCon] presentations

[Okan Demirmen]

On Wed 2013.11.20 at 10:29 -0500, Michael W. Lucas 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> But if they have a legit reason, let them use their own.

I agree.  We should be communicating with speakers to get requirements,
etc, and let them know what we will have available (and why).

Patrick, is there something special on the recording side that needs
everything to be off one source laptop?

> 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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