Sessions

Give a Great Tech Talk

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Accepted Session
Culture
Long Form
osb2010-0315
Scheduled: Tuesday, June 1, 2010 from 10:00 – 11:45am in St. Johns
Session notes

Excerpt

Why do so many technical presentations suck? Make sure that yours
doesn't. Josh Berkus and Ian Dees will show you how to share your
ideas with your audience by speaking effectively and (when the
situation warrants it) showing your code.

Description

While a terrific presentation may take talent, making a good one is a
matter of science and practice. As generations of Toastmasters have
proved, anyone can do it. Veteran conference presenter Josh Berkus
will go over his tech talk tips in detail in order to help you improve
your presentation skills. Programmer and slide-slinger Ian Dees will
take on the specific topics of showing code to an audience and
composing your slides.

  • How to prepare for a talk
  • Nobody cares about your slides
  • … but make good ones anyway
  • 7 terrible habits of ineffective presenters
  • Audience interaction 101
  • When your demo crashes
  • Curate your code examples
  • The audience outside the lecture hall

Speakers who are giving talks later in the conference are especially
encouraged to attend.

Tags

tutorial, presentations, meta, talks

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Speakers

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    Josh Berkus

    PostgreSQL Project

    Biography

    Josh Berkus is best known as a Core Team member of the world-spanning PostgreSQL project. He is CEO of PostgreSQL Experts, Inc. and in his 12 years as a database consultant he has worked with CouchDB, MySQL, Oracle, and MSSQL Server as well as Postgres, and is heavily involved in many OSS communities, including BIRT, OSCON, OSfA, Noisebridge and more. He’s also a potter and a mean cook.

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    Ian Dees

    Biography

    I’m a Portland-area software utility player who spends his (heh) “spare time” recklessly concocting music, teaching the rug rats how to bicycle, and composing lists in threes.

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