Help with a presentation.

Hi!

I need to make a "freebsd advocacy" presentation
this weekend into the
BSDCon Barcelona'08. The problem is that I never make a
presentation
for anything :-(
Anybody could help me with ideas?
One of the points i would like to explain is the fact that
FreeBSD is
in more companies that the people would be think, but I
would like to
talk about other examples (not the typical Yahoo, Juniper,
etc).
Excuse me if you can't understand what I would to say, my
english is
very bad...

Thank you very much!!

-- 
Have a nice day 
TooManySecrets

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"TooMany Secrets" wrote:
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Please avoid un-necessary UTF-8. Ascii works better !

Anyway, I & others did presentations one evening last
year,
feel free to use any data or tools etc you can from eg
http://www.berklix.
com/free/talk/
http:
//www.berklix.com/free/talk/presentations/
http://www.berklix.com/free/talk/pr
esentations/export/1_intro_julian/current/
Sources
http://www.berklix.com/free/talk/pr
esentations/source/1_intro_julian/current/

PS a hint on lecturing:
Think back over all the lectures youve attended, & all
the different
weird annoying distracting ineffective methods & habits
all the
different lecturers had, & avoid that list, & you're
off to a good
start just by avoiding that list   Good Luck
!

Julian
-- 
Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult
Munich www.berklix.com
	Mail just Ascii plain text.  HTML & Base64 is spam.
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On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:04:07 +0200, "Julian H.
Stacey" <jhsberklix.org> wrote:
> Please avoid un-necessary UTF-8. Ascii works better !
>
> Anyway, I & others did presentations one evening
last year,
> feel free to use any data or tools etc you can from eg
> http://www.berklix.
com/free/talk/
> http:
//www.berklix.com/free/talk/presentations/
> http://www.berklix.com/free/talk/pr
esentations/export/1_intro_julian/current/
> Sources
> http://www.berklix.com/free/talk/pr
esentations/source/1_intro_julian/current/
>
> PS a hint on lecturing:
> Think back over all the lectures youve attended, &
all the different
> weird annoying distracting ineffective methods &
habits all the
> different lecturers had, & avoid that list, &
you're off to a good
> start just by avoiding that list   Good Luck
!

The BSDCan article of Robert Watson may also give a few good
ideas:

http://www.watson.org/~ro
bert/freebsd/2006eurobsdcon/eurobsdcon2006-howfreebsdworks.p
df

Slides also available at:

http://www.wat
son.org/~robert/freebsd/2006eurobsdcon/20061111-eurobsdcon20
06-how-freebsd-works.pdf
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Giorgos Keramidas
<keramidaceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>  The BSDCan article of Robert Watson may also give a
few good ideas:
>
>  http://www.watson.org/~ro
bert/freebsd/2006eurobsdcon/eurobsdcon2006-howfreebsdworks.p
df
>
>  Slides also available at:
>
>  http://www.wat
son.org/~robert/freebsd/2006eurobsdcon/20061111-eurobsdcon20
06-how-freebsd-works.pdf

Thank you very much to everybody!!!

-- 
Have a nice day 
TooManySecrets

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Así te ahorrarás
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Hi FreeBSD Advocates:

I used to give talks about computers among other things, so
maybe I can 
contribute. Obviously the usual approach is to talk about a
series of slides. 
But you don't need a Slide Projector if you can overcome the
usual Stage 
Fright.

One useful technique for organising your material is the
Spider-Chart. A bloke 
named Tony Buzan wrote books about these, calling them
Mind-Maps or 
Brain-Patterns, but the idea is much older. You start with a
large sheet of 
paper, like a double-spread of Line-Printer output, and you
write the central 
theme in the centre. Then you draw lines branching out to
the main topics, 
then further branches out to further associated ideas, with
interconnecting 
links between them. After collecting your thoughts this way
you organise them 
into a sequential list for your Computer Talk.

The Spider-Chart is ideal for a subject like Computing,
because the more 
abstract the material is, the better it works. It's also
good in Group 
Discussions. If everybody draws up a Spider-Chart you get an
instant picture 
of the different perspectives people have on a subject. 

Your talk can become alot simpler if you encourage Audience
Participation. 
Just read a brief Introduction or Summary and ask whether
anybody has any 
questions already. It's alot less daunting to talk to a
single member of the 
audience than to address the whole crowd simultaneously. You
may find the 
whole occasion takes on a life of its own, with the audience
doing half your 
talk for you. Obviously you need an excuse for questions you
can't answer, 
like explaining you're also researching what people want to
know about. You 
can note down on all the topics you didn't think of and
check them out for 
your next presentation. 

You still need to go back to your prepared notes
occasionally when the debate 
dies away. You can find alot of your material has been
covered and you need 
to pick out the bits nobody thought of yet. Just go through
the next topic 
briefly and ask if there are any more questions again. You
need this feedback 
anyway, otherwise you risk going on without being understood
by half your 
audience. If there is any misunderstanding, that gives you
more stuff to 
discuss.  At the end you can discover that you kept people
interested for 
three hours and only used half your material.

Faictz Ce Que Vouldras: Frank Mitchell

On Wednesday 16 April 2008 14:45:49 TooMany Secrets wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I need to make a "freebsd advocacy"
presentation this weekend into the
> BSDCon Barcelona'08. The problem is that I never make a
presentation
> for anything :-(
> Anybody could help me with ideas?
> One of the points i would like to explain is the fact
that FreeBSD is
> in more companies that the people would be think, but I
would like to
> talk about other examples (not the typical Yahoo,
Juniper, etc).
> Excuse me if you can't understand what I would to say,
my english is
> very bad...
> 
> Thank you very much!!
> -- 
> Have a nice day 
> TooManySecrets
> 


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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Frank Mitchell
<mitchellwyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> wrote:
>  One useful technique for organising your material is
the Spider-Chart. A bloke
>  named Tony Buzan wrote books about these, calling them
Mind-Maps or
>  Brain-Patterns, but the idea is much older. You start
with a large sheet of
>  paper, like a double-spread of Line-Printer output,
and you write the central
>  theme in the centre. Then you draw lines branching out
to the main topics,
>  then further branches out to further associated ideas,
with interconnecting
>  links between them. After collecting your thoughts
this way you organise them
>  into a sequential list for your Computer Talk.

Hummm... I never heard about that. Looks like a great way to
make a
presentation, and also participative way for the assistance.

Thank you for your great help.

Regards.

-- 
Have a nice day 
TooManySecrets

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Así te ahorrarás
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On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:49:40 +0200
"TooMany Secrets" <toomanytoomany.net> wrote:

> Hummm... I never heard about that. Looks like a great
way to make a
> presentation, and also participative way for the
assistance.

Don't forget to do some practice before the real thing. 
This way you avoid stage panic, or at least reduce it
considerably.

-- 
Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
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  "Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to
worse."
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On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:38:20 -0300, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
<rnsanchezwait4.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:49:40 +0200
> "TooMany Secrets" <toomanytoomany.net> wrote:
>
>> Hummm... I never heard about that. Looks like a
great way to make a
>> presentation, and also participative way for the
assistance.
>
> Don't forget to do some practice before the real thing.
 This way you
> avoid stage panic, or at least reduce it considerably.

Good point 

I have discovered that giving a similar talk to multiple
places helps a
lot too.  The second time a talk is scheduled (and all the
subsequent
times) I have at least the following advantages over the
first time I
gave it:

  * The questions of the audience from the first talk are
_very_ helpful
    in expanding the "interesting" parts and
trimming down what they
    didn't seem to take a very active interest in.

  * I've practically had a chance for "live"
practice of the same talk,
    by giving it in the past.

I also like preparing for a talk by firing up
"presentation mode" and
keeping a sheet of paper and pencil/pen nearby for notes. 
While I am
timing the talk, I use the paper for notes like:

    "5>6 no connection"
    "10 too many bullets in one page"
    "29 needs more"

and other random scribblings about anything that seems
"odd" about the
talk style, content, or timing.

Then I go through the notes and the actual slides, looking
for places
where improvements can be made.  It takes me two or three
iterations to
catch some of the obvious stuff, but the whole process helps
me a lot!

Naturally, I don't always have the time to do *all* of this,
and I've
given talks after staying very late at night and furiously
stuffing
slides with text and images.  These presentations/talks tend
of be major
disasters or mind-numbingly boring sessions of "See?  I
can so totally
read the text on the big white thing!  Oh, where was
I?".

I have learned to avoid that now 

HTH,
Giorgos

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