[Inpycon] Some thoughts on talks and what not to do in a tech talk

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 19:10 +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
> > +1 speakers should know how to control the audience
> 
> There was a heckler who brought up something irrelevant about the XBox
> during the Wii talk and the speaker (Asim I think) handled it *very*
> well. 
> 
> That of course is no excuse to not have a good session chair/hall
> marshal. If a speaker is doesn't have it in her to control the
> audience,
> it's our responsibility to be helpful. 

generally if the speaker knows what he is about he can control the
audience. If the speaker is clueless (like the mongodb guys), the
audience senses it and moves in for the kill.
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regards
Kenneth Gonsalves