> Love the Perth crowd.. yeah, they rock.
> Once that happens, you present but it's not so much a presentation but more > of a conversation, that all are invited in. Interact share the ideas and > build up from them and you may get your next session out of it and so on... keep it free-form? like a bunch of muso's having a jam, or rather a bunch of soloists being egged on the stage to have a bit of a blow and entertain the rest? can I just float a presentation model that I've seen work really well? seen on the OnAIR bus tour but not come across it much elsewhere in Adobe circles ... the breakout. Someone with a specific issue corners a specialist/presenter and says "I've got this problem" and they find somewhere quiet with their laptops to work on it together where it's a true one-to-one to solve it and enlighten that person. Think "student with personal tutor" to solve their specific issue. it usually attracts a crowd so more than one person learns but the personal attention on something very specific can be much more valuable for that person standard presentations, and much more reason for them to turn up. > keep it CF related but the best formula is to simply rock up on the day > armed with presentation you want to give. one dynamic that's could be being missed is the fact that people do have day jobs... just today I got landed with a meeting in the morning of the day. I'm the small fry joining my boss and his boss in it. I can just imagine it now: "you want to reschedule the meeting for us all? to go to ... what? What's this 'ColdFusion' thing - is it one of our projects?" some people need buy-in to justify going Vs a day of lost productivity. I can fully imagine some ppl driving over from work, picking up a 2 hour carpark just for the sessions they really want to see then bailing back to work. It'd be nice to drag the boss along too with the rest of the team and make a day of it (one in the team gets pushed onto the stage by the others to present - the home-town supporters go nuts to egg them on) - but that's not going to work for everyone. I'm just having trouble visualising the role of local involvement outside the regular CFUG structure. I fully realise that the local user groups only represent a sub-section of the local developers (it'd be heartening if it had more) so events like this are the perfect opportunity for other locals to come out and add to the event. but with three weeks to go local involvement is looking a bit thin... I've stuck my neck out for a presso (my second choice - the bastard that bagsey'ed my first choice better bloody-well commit 'cos it's too late for me to change now) so this event is a perfect opportunity for other locals to step up and shine and they don't have to be a regular CFUG'er to chip in. http://cfcamp.pbwiki.com/ eh my 2c --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
