I recently spoke at the Open Mobile Exchange (OMX), at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON). Now, a totally fantastic thing about OSCON, is that there is an easy way for audience members to provide feedback to speakers via the conference website. (Unfortunately, I was spending too much time prepping my slides to give useful feedback to my other speakers, which I must apologise for.) I really hope that the zookeepr guys add similar functionality so linux.conf.au can have similar feedback mechanism.
So, the great thing is that I got some great feedback from my last talk, which confirmed something I was worried about in my talks. When giving a talk, there is always a lot of background material that I feel I need to cover to adequately explain my position, but the problem is that I then have a lot less time to present the crux of my position.
So I’ve decided that I’m going to try and cover background information on my blog, so that I can refer to that in my talk, rather than going into lots of detail during the talk. This also gives all those people with laptops something useful to do during my talk.
Stay tuned!