In article <49637591.1080...@wrkhors.com>, Steven Lembark <lemb...@wrkhors.com> wrote:
> Many of the talks given at YAPC &c are available online. > If you check with authors beforehand they normally don't > mind if the talks are recycled (feel free to use any of > mine). That would solve a major issue: having time to > compose the slides. I've thought about this sort of thing for speaker training. Give someone a ready-made presentation, give them a chance to research it a bit, and then give the presentation. Talks that teach skills rather than research report talks could do very well here. I started a couple of "soft" topics like this: Conferences for Beginners (José and Skud both have versions too, I think): http://www.slideshare.net/brian_d_foy/conferences-for-beginners/ If people want to try a hand at another one of my talks (or run some program that uses one), get in touch with me: http://www.slideshare.net/brian_d_foy/slideshows
