On 2008-12-18 21:09, Zeth wrote: > 2008/12/18 Dinu Gherman <[email protected]>: >> M.-A. Lemburg: >> >>> Sure, there's always a benefit in being able to access presentations >>> after they have been given. However, in the past, not even the slides >>> were made available by all speakers. IMHO, tt would be far better to >>> at least get all those together on the website, rather than discussing >>> the next steps > > Slides are not that same as a well written paper or abstract. Some of > the best talks I have seen have used the slides for additional > illustration rather than spending the whole talks reading out the > slides, indeed some people do not a video projector at all. So > collecting the slides alone does not solve everything.
Well, of course, but having the slides is still better than nothing at all, right ? ;-) > Having said that, at the last PyConUK, almost all the slides I wanted > were on the CD. Although, I have not read half of these yet. The only > talk I wanted notes from that were not on the CD were emailed to me by > the speaker. So if a talk is really vital to someone, nothing stops > that person talking to the speaker afterwards. Sure, but there are a few problems with this: * if you didn't attend the talk, it not necessarily straight forward to contact the speaker * if you don't even attend the conference, this gets even more difficult * if you want to reference the talk in a paper, blog or other talk, there's no central place or URL to reference Of course, making the talks available is an extra service by the speakers and last minute changes to the talks are frequent and common. Still, I'd rather like to see the same enthusiasm that people appear to have for getting video action (which doesn't always produce the slides in readable way) or audio recordings (which don't really work without the slides), for getting the slides up there. For technical talks, those slides are important. For Steve Jobs style keynotes, I agree, they are secondary. Cheers, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Dec 18 2008) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2008-12-02: Released mxODBC.Connect 1.0.0 http://python.egenix.com/ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
