> From: Martin van den Nieuwelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The idea you suggested where people get to showcase their wares sounds > excellent to me. Not only does it allow people some hands-on on some > locally produced solutions, but the feedback from the group would be > extremely valuable. I don't know of any other method that would be as > effective for getting immediate first impressions and criticisms for a > software package from a group of like-minded talented people.
I'm wondering if having a workshop to start with devoted solely to ideas on how to use powerpoint effectively would be handy. I know there are general classes out there on this, but it might be useful for software folk to get a feel for what can be done. I'm sure some of our multimedia folk would have useful tips.... I know I got some ideas from the ministerial meeting we had, and found it interesting to see how different our presentations were, what worked and what didn't (such as huge flowcharts in micro fonts!). A picture, as they say, paints a thousand words, and I'm not going forget in a hurry the great moving graph in the Jade presentation which listed their success while dropping them down the risk axis and pushed the big government project up the risk axis even though the latter had chosen market leaders and sure winners....(remember INCIS? Who says NZ companies are more risky than big overseas ones as a matter of course??) What do y'all think? Do we add that to the forthcoming workshops? > In light of recent events, the future of the Canterbury Software > Cluster looks very bright. It's something I'd like to be a part of, > however early next year I will be moving to Europe (Berlin, DE). This > will allow me to be closer to my target market, a market that really > doesn't exist in New Zealand. I hope to keep an eye on what the > Cluster is up to however, and would be interested to act as a > go-between for members of the cluster if they are interested in forming > or strengthening European relations. Hmm, here's another idea -- should we have a section on the CS Website (Friends of CSI? :-) which provides link and/or contact details for folk overseas who are willing to be contacted for advice or business? We could build it up as a resource -- and there are the ex-pat Kiwi organisations such as KEA which could be listed there (Sandra: would you be able to check out if that's OK with Andy Lark and any others?), as well as a plug for helpful bods like TradeNZ (Cate: got a summary or useful links for this?) Sometimes it's nice landing in a strange city to think that you've got someone to meet up with who knows about the Crusaders and Marmite! :-) Cheers, Vicki ====================================================== SPIS Ltd, Box 19-760, Christchurch, NZ http://.spis.co.nz * FREE TurboNote+ sticky note trial: http://TurboNote.com --> via Canterbury Software email forum: Success through Connections Email your messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Leave or rejoin the list: http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/forum.htm
