[Inpycon] Development Sprints

[Rejy M Cyriac]

On 10/16/2014 01:46 PM, Noufal Ibrahim KV wrote:
> 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.
> 

Those are two extremes, and the choice is obvious. :-)

> 
> [...]
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
Close to what I was talking about. However, even if the last sentence
were missing from second example, it could still be an interesting talk
to deserve a look-in by the panel, and not be screened out.

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Regards,

Rejy M Cyriac (rmc)