---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Sean Owen" <[email protected]> Date: Jul 16, 2010 4:58 PM Subject: Re: Feedback required: Mahout presentation at OSCON To: "Robin Anil" <[email protected]>
What's the audience like? Why do you imagine they are motivated to come to the talk? Maybe they want an intro, but I imagine those at OSCON who pick this talk already know basically what this is. I personally would largely skip introduction and overview. I would also skip code samples - they can't use it during the talk. That is wiki material. Instead I'd tell a story about an interesting problem like ones they may have, and sketch the fun and interesting parts of an answer. Presos in my opinion should have less text than this. If they can just read what you say you lose attention. It is not meant to be readable on its own. Pictures and diagrams are superb If you could really cover an interesting clustering case I think that would be dynamite. FWIW see what I did for Berlin Buzzwords. On Jul 16, 2010 1:44 PM, "Robin Anil" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hopefully covers everything mahout but, I dont know if I can squeeze it in > the time period. Looking for ways to prune it. Would love to hear your > thoughts of the stuff that can be done without. > > Robin
