Andrew Savige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am soon to give my first Perl presentation to Sydney.pm. > Panic! I have never done this before. Worse, I have never > attended a Perl conference to learn from the masters.
Just a few hints. Other people will probably tell you to do the exact opposite-- it will always be your decision. Do you know what you are going to talk about? Don't laugh, it's essential. Try to make a sketch of what you want to talk about (topics, sub-topics). How much time do you have-- that controls how much content. Can you improvise or do you need to work it out completely? For a first time I'd advice to write the text completely and rehearse it a couple of times. Use some friends a guinea pigs. > I have heard Dominus mention the importance of entertainment and > theatre but I have no idea how to do that. Don't unless you're funny. Really, a bad joke is worse than no joke. > I have also heard that > Gellyfish, Damian and Schwern all give superb presentations. Don't try to match the masters-- be yourself! I doubt if their first presentations were superb. > A big of googling found these two: > http://axpoint.axkit.org/ > http://ppresenter.org/ > Which is better? Or are there better alternatives? There have been long threads about presentation tools. Each of them take time to master. Existing experience also plays a role. If you can afford it (CPU/Memory/Disk) use OpenOffice.org. Portable Presenter is a good alternative (and it's Perl), especially when using the XML front-end. Personally I would advise against HTML based presentations. But, as I said, long threads have been written about this already... Hope this helps. -- Johan
