Well, I'll +1 here, since my experience has been very similar to Harald's...
Chris
Harald Armin Massa wrote:
Michael Hudson schrieb:
"Mikael Jansson (mailing lists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I just talked to a friend who attended EP '04, and he wanted me to tell you guys that there should be a sign or such telling people _not_ to use their computers (check e-mail, irc, whatever) during sessions, as it's highly annoying, and is very disrespectful.
>Well, I have on occasion used my computer to take notes.
Apart from "taking notes" I also used my computer to immediately google up information concerning the spoken words.It gave me a TOTALLY new learning experience; I was able to connect a lot of new information with information I allready know. So in fact it put my *attentiveness *and my digestion of the new information to a whole new level.
And especially to be able to download "dateutil.py" WHILE Anna was talking, installing it and firing up PyCrust to IMMEDIATELY redo the examples was a very fascinating learning experience.
As a speaker myself I am used to people reading newspaper, eating sweats, doing all kind of stuff during my talk. If I do care, I have to improve my presentation to wake them up. A very effective way is making jokes, the second time the crowd is laughing out loud anybody gets interesseted because NOBODY can stand to be left on the outside of laughing.
I also prefer people to use IRC or ICQ to chat than speaking, because voices distract more than computers, esp. in a geeks event.
Harald
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