[Steering Committee] Sc Meeting

[Adam Farlee]

Sounds like an excellent way to do a presentation.  

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Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 5:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [Steering Committee] Sc Meeting

YES!

Exactly what I've been trying to put into words.

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On Tuesday, April 27, 2010, Brett L. Schuchert <schuchert at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Basically... Or..
> Brief (3 - 5 minute) overview of where we are about to go.Then a vertical
slice through the technologyGet to a complete working exampleThen questions
(maybe going horizontal)Then another slice through the system.Then
questionsEtc.
> Going horizontal primarily to answer questions.
> What I've seen recently are presentations that try to cover way to much in
too little time. By helping the presenters to focus on concrete examples and
move away from trying to cover the whole API, I think the presentations will
be better.
> I don't want a lecture on the technology. If it is interesting enough,
I'll do that on my own time.
> Anything worth talking about probably won't fit into 60 minutes, so we
need to get presenters to get rid of details. That is, they need to model
their presentation. Where modeling is removing details to get to some
essence, or point.On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:50 AM 4/27/10, Jason Lee wrote:
>
>
> On 4/27/10 10:48 AM, Brett L. Schuchert wrote:
>
>   3. In general, I prefer bottom up presentations rather than top
> town.
>
> Meaning nitty gritty details first, then an explanation of what we just
> saw?
>
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