[Inpycon] Development Sprints

[Noufal Ibrahim KV]

On Thu, Oct 16 2014, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:

[...]

>> That's fine. It's way better than someone with excellent presentation
>> skills talking about something they don't know in depth.
>> 
> -1
>
> Engaging the audience is vital for a talk to be well accepted.

Given a choice between an engaging speaker who's not very well informed
about what he or she is talking about and a bad presenter who knows the
topic well, I'd choose the latter.


[...]

> How would we go about verifying this ? Ask for participation
> certificates from the local user group ? Ensuring the speaker
> selection process is based on merit of the topic, quality of content,
> and presentation skills of the presenter should be enough, rather than
> put up hard filters to keep out folks.

I agree with you here. I'm saying that "presentation skills of the
presenter" is something that can be judged by experience. Take a look at
a presenter that says this

"""
This talk is an intro to technology X. It will discuss how to get
started using X and how to create a simple application using it.
"""

vs. 

"""
This talk about how I used technology X to solve a problem which could
not be solved by conventional ways. I've spoken about this at my local
user group meetups and at my college festival. 
"""

I'd pick the second.


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Cordially,
Noufal
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