<div dir="ltr">Hi Kathy,<div> A few comments:</div><div>1. I think a speaker pack and template is a great idea.</div><div>2. Apple (for WWDC) actually rewrite people's slide decks to be "more Apple", which is a combination of high quality presentation and branding. This is regardless of speaker experience and status.</div><div>3. Great speakers tend to enjoy feedback. I suspect if we offer a "Speaker feedback" service, it would equally attract experienced and inexperienced speakers</div><div>4. I would encourage you to add the "Speaker feedback" service to the speaker pack as an option, and include anyone who identifies themselves as willing to give feedback to read the speaker pack, talk with each other and provide feedback to speakers.</div><div><br></div><div>kind regards,</div><div>Nathan</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 May 2015 at 07:07, Kathy Reid <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kathy@kathyreid.id.au" target="_blank">kathy@kathyreid.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Thanks everyone for your input to this
issue, and for your passion in wanting to make <a href="http://linux.conf.au" target="_blank">linux.conf.au</a> even
better than the five days of awesome it already is every year. <br>
<br>
One thing we need to keep in mind is that many of our Speakers are
incredibly accomplished in their field / discipline. Some are also
experienced at public speaking, and are very savvy in terms of
what makes a good presentation. There's a fine line between
attempting to help and being patronising - and I know that
everyone who's commented here has the best of intent. <br>
<br>
Therefore, the way I'm going to tackle this - as the Speaker
Liaison for LCA2016 - is to produce a Speaker Info Pack for
accepted Speakers. This pack will contain helpful hints on what
makes a good presentation. We're also planning to provide a
presentation template in something like OpenOffice or Impress.js
that can be used - and Tim, your slidelint will be a useful tool
for this template. This Pack will be based on the one that was
provided at LCA2012 Ballarat [0]. <br>
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One thing I'd like to include is a one-page, tear-out of
'Presentation checklist' or similar - specifically to address some
AV concerns that make video and streaming harder. <br>
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<br>
Where I'd like the community to do is therefore provide feedback
on a draft of the Speaker Info Pack, which is about 6 weeks' away.
A separate Subcommittee is not needed for this task. <br>
If you'd be willing to assist with this task, please reply to me
offline and we'll come back to you with the draft. <br>
<br>
<br>
Also, get ready to put your #CfP hats on. I have it on good
authority from our awesome Conference Director, Mr David Bell
(@dtbell91) that #CfP will be opening soon [1]. <br>
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<br>
As always, we appreciate your feedback, comments - and input. <br>
<br>
With kind regards,<br>
@kathyreid<br>
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[0] which I'd link here, but due to the server compromise, the
<a href="http://lca2012.linux.org.au" target="_blank">lca2012.linux.org.au</a> host is offline. Props to the Admin Team for
their huge amount of effort in resolving this and putting together
a plan to get us operational again. It's been no small task. Have
some spare time? Great. We'd love more volunteer help with LA.
Give <a href="mailto:council@linux.org.au" target="_blank">council@linux.org.au</a> a line :-) <br>
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[1] yes, we're opening #CfP 8 months out from <a href="http://linux.conf.au" target="_blank">linux.conf.au</a>. Aside
from this indicating that we're a crack team of ninja conf
organisers, it also means that we're better able to attract high
calibre international Speakers, who have busy schedules and need
to have confirmed acceptance as early as possible to get
reasonable flights. Big thanks to our amazing Papers Committee,
and special shout out to Michael Davies and Mikal Still for their
guidance and wisdom. <br><div><div class="h5">
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On 26/05/15 18:43, Tim Ansell wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">As a person actively involved with the recording and
live steaming of the content a many conferences I'm very
interested in methods of making presentations better.</p>
<p dir="ltr">One thing I've found is that even experienced people
often make minor mistakes which adversely affect the quality of
the output. These are things such as; using low contrast text
meaning the slide is unreadable from the back of the room, or
putting text too close to the edges of slides meaning it gets
cut off.</p>
<p dir="ltr">To try and fix these problems (in a more scalable way
then yelling at every presenter) I created the slidelint
project. The tool automatically checks for these common problems
in PDF presentations. It is like a code linting tool for
presentations. There is both an online version at <a href="http://slidelint.net/" target="_blank">http://slidelint.net/</a>
and an offline version at <a href="https://github.com/timvideos/slidelint" target="_blank">https://github.com/timvideos/slidelint</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">Obviously it doesn't fix problems with content but
might be a useful first start.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The project could use some love because I don't have
any time to work on it. I'm happy to help anyone who is
interested in helping out.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Tim 'mithro' Ansell</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 26 May 2015 2:28 pm, "Ian" <<a href="mailto:ilox11@gmail.com" target="_blank">ilox11@gmail.com</a>>
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<p dir="ltr">Good suggestions Phillip. I did years of
community projects and committees but when I did about 8
months with Rostrum as part of a project I found out so much
more about speaking and meeting management. Certainly
recommend the experience that either organisation can give
to those willing to learn and share. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Perhaps Kathy and the 2016 Team could put you and
myself and others that put their hands up on a sub-committee
as part of Speaker Support? </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 26/05/2015 11:58 am, "Phillip
Smith" <<a href="mailto:lists@fukawi2.nl" target="_blank">lists@fukawi2.nl</a>>
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at 09:39, Ian </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:ilox11@gmail.com" target="_blank">ilox11@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br>
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I would like to discuss - preferable off to
one side so I'm not filling the list up with
non-Linux posts - how to help presenters for
any LCA to produce a better presentation and
avoid the common presentation pitfalls.</div>
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I too would be willing to review speakers
presentations in this manner. I certainly don't
claim to be perfect, but I have been a
Toastmaster for several years so have some
experience. On that note, if there are people
who would like to present but aren't confident
doing so, look up your local Toastmaster club
and give it a go :)</div>
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