I totally concur with what Sean says. Pictures are excellent. Pictures of people are even better.
Tell a story. That is the essence of why people come together to hear a speaker. This has been happening for thousands of years and nothing has changed except the swap of power point and a project for the campfire. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > ---------- 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 >
