On Wednesday 03 January 2007 16:59, Eric Peterson wrote: Hello, > On 1/3/07, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've posted to the web site a preliminary copy of the slide show that I plan > > to present at FOSDEM in Febrary, and would appreciate your feedback on it. > > I haven't timed the talk yet, but it should be about 30-40 minutes. > > > > I would like to have better graphics for the one graphics slide I have, but > > then I'm not very good as an artist. About the only other thing I am > > thinking about doing is showing some actual commands and output much like > > what is in the Brief Tutorial chapter of the manual -- the problem is that > > such text either is too small to read on a projected screen or requires 3 > > slides to get it up ... You can view it at: > > > > http://www.bacula.org/presentations/Bacula-FOSDEM-talk-24Feb07.pdf > > > > Best regards, > > > > Kern > > > > PS: I am not yet sure if I will give the talk on the 24th or the 25th. > > Hi Kern, > > Over the last year or better there has been a large movement to bring > the developer community in my area together. The format of the get > togethers has been modeled after barcamp.org's unconferences. Everyone > is allowed/required to contribute. > > >From reading the "About FOSDEM" page, it sounds like this a little > more conference then unconference, but I think one thing still > applies: geeks, developers, or whatever you want to call people like > us like to see the product and probably won't appreciate a long slide > show as much as a demo. > > So if you're looking for an opinion, at that's all this is, I would > recommend presenting Bacula via demonstration rather than > presentation. Remember, many of us suffer from NADD -- > http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2003/07/10/nadd.html. > > Of course, if FOSDEM mandates that you give a presentation, then you're set.
I've been a bit tied up with the 2.0.0 release, then a brief rest, followed by a good deal of work on my FOSDEM slide presentation (and demo). Thanks for the comments from everyone. Based on the comments, I have reworked my presentation mainly to correct the "bugs" that we reported as well as to put the slides in the correct order (somehow I got them out of order in the last iteration). I also eliminated the duplicate items found in the 4 different Feature slides. I'll be timing the presentation later today, and hope to pare it down to 30 minutes. In addition, I have prepared (or am preparing) a demo of bweb and possibly gconsole. This demon should last 10 minutes if all goes well. I hope to make a screen shot or two of the demo in case things go wrong. Live demos are *always* (in my experience) fraught with problems, though most audiences are very understanding. Finally I hope to leave 10 minutes for questions and answers, that brings the total presentation time to 50 minutes, which is what they have alotted me. I'll answer each of the other emails in a day or two as well as post a new pdf. Many thanks for your help ... you all gave me some good ideas. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
