speaking at PyCon

[Eric Snow]

This is my first year speaking at PyCon, so I solicited
speaking/preparation advice from a bunch of folks, particularly
focusing on the PyCon speaking experience. I've compiled the results
and put them online:

http://ref.rtfd.org/speakers

This is still rough, and feedback is welcome, as is more advice.
For anyone speaking at the conference (or generally), I hope this will
be helpful. Thanks!

-eric

 

[Roy Smith]

Wow. As somebody who has given plenty of talks, I can tell you this is an awesome checklist (and most of it not specific to PyCon).

Let me add one suggestion -- never, ever, ever, type a URL into a browser connected to the internet in front of a live audience. You never know when you're going to make a typo and something *totally* not what you expected will fill the screen. If you absolutely insist on ignoring the good advice about not doing live demos, at least bookmark your urls and click on the bookmark. DAMHIKT.

 

[Roy Smith]

Wow. As somebody who has given plenty of talks, I can tell you this is an awesome checklist (and most of it not specific to PyCon).

Let me add one suggestion -- never, ever, ever, type a URL into a browser connected to the internet in front of a live audience. You never know when you're going to make a typo and something *totally* not what you expected will fill the screen. If you absolutely insist on ignoring the good advice about not doing live demos, at least bookmark your urls and click on the bookmark. DAMHIKT.

 

[Devin Jeanpierre]

Wow.  As somebody who has given plenty of talks, I can tell you thisis an awesome checklist (and most of it not specific to PyCon).

Let me add one suggestion -- never, ever, ever, type a URL into a browserconnected to the internet in front of a live audience.  You never know when you're going to make a typo and something *totally* not what you expected will fill the screen.  If you absolutely insist on ignoring the good advice about not doing live demos, at least bookmark your urls and click on the bookmark.  DAMHIKT.

I have to ask... was it python.com?

-- Devin

 

[python]

Roy,

Let me add one suggestion -- never, ever, ever, type a URL into a browser connected to the internet in front of a live audience. You never know when you're going to make a typo and something *totally* not what you expected will fill the screen.

Great advice!

Years ago I did a presentation on Python and then launched a browser to
give a tour of the Python website.

When I went to enter the URL, I accidentally typed in python.com (which
at the time was an adult website) vs. python.org.

Talk about getting your audience's attention!!

Malcolm

BTW: Great tips Eric - thanks for sharing.

 

[Martin P. Hellwig]

This is my first year speaking at PyCon, so I solicited
speaking/preparation advice from a bunch of folks, particularly
focusing on the PyCon speaking experience. I've compiled the results
and put them online:

http://ref.rtfd.org/speakers

This is still rough, and feedback is welcome, as is more advice.
For anyone speaking at the conference (or generally), I hope this will
be helpful. Thanks!

-eric

Good general presentation tips, I have another suggestion:
If you bring your own laptop, make sure to practice connecting it to the
projector and have a special presentation account (which you also used
for your practice and nothing else).