On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Joshua D. Drake
<jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
Jonah, one of the great things about open source is that we all get to
represent our own point of view. We don't get sucked into the great
dairy farm of Oracle or Sun representation. Each person is able to stand
on their own merits.
I don't care who else does anything. I'm just saying that, to me, it has always seemed like everything went more smoothly when there were standardized templates.
If you need a standardized template to get your message across in a
useful way then you are likely not someone who should be doing public
speaking in the first place.
For the most part, I agree. But for new presenters, it never hurts to point them in the right direction. Conferences are about making sure that the people attending the session get the information they need. They're not about pacifying presenters. Poor presenters just don't get chosen to present next year, but the session time they waste in current conferences irreplacable. I'm not saying that slides fix bad presenters, just that they *sometimes* help promote best practices to people who may not know them yet.
Now... how is any of this on topic for this list?
I didn't start the topic, and it's on -advocacy which is seemingly where conferences would apply.
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