> I offer a few recommendations for presenters, not really as rules we must
> obey but guidelines to improve the presentation.
> It has been 6 months now and we've had some really amazing presentations.

> Guidelines for better presentations.

> - set expectations; present yourself to your audience, tell them what the
> purpose of your presentation is and let them know if you happen to have
> assumptions about the audience(should they understand REST, be familiar with
> controllers, etc...).
> - KISS.   It is better to present easy concepts with the option to explain
> more complex ones at question period (or at a following presentation).
> - people love seeing others coding in front of them; it's no surprise that
> railscasts.com is so popular.  Showing others how you code is a great way to
> let them pick up on valuable habits and shortcuts that you use.
> - come prepared! don't decide to present something thinking you can wing it.
>  Doing a practice run is a great idea.  (That being said remember that the
> screen resolution of the projector is not the same as your monitor so if you
> plan to code adjust yourself on your practice run)- post a follow up blog
> post about your presentation with any code/slides

> ps: I should be capable of doing a March presentation if it is prior to
> March 17th.

> On 1/16/08, Mathieu Martin <web...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I agree with the english requirement for the slides, even though I'm
> > french :-)

> > I also think JF is on to something here. Making a 30-60 minutes
> > presentation is a lot of work, as I found out when I prepared for my JRuby
> > presentation :-). So allowing quickies may tempt more of us to make
> > presentations. (It's worth it)

> > Also, as someone mentioned at the pub yesterday, the resulting hour long
> > presentations can drag a little bit. (I hope my JRuby presentation wasn't
> > too bad, last November :-)

> > 5-10 minute presentations showing little snippets of code, Ruby idioms or
> > small Rails plugins could also be good interludes between two beefier
> > presentations. Or we could even go crazy once in a while and have 5 or 8
> > different 10 minute presentations :-) This may involve too much overhead,
> > however ( e.g. setting up the equipment).

> > Cheers,

> > Mat

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