<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Basically... Or..<div><br></div><div>Brief (3 - 5 minute) overview of where we are about to go.</div><div>Then a vertical slice through the technology</div><div>Get to a complete working example</div><div>Then questions (maybe going horizontal)</div><div>Then another slice through the system.</div><div>Then questions</div><div>Etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Going horizontal primarily to answer questions.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't want a lecture on the technology. If it is interesting enough, I'll do that on my own time.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><div><div>On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:50 AM 4/27/10, Jason Lee wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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On 4/27/10 10:48 AM, Brett L. Schuchert wrote:
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<div>3. In general, I prefer bottom up presentations rather than top
town.</div>
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Meaning nitty gritty details first, then an explanation of what we just
saw?<br>
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