[cumbria_lug] Presenting presenting

[trevor at haven.demon.co.uk]

Hello trevor,

Tuesday, April 6, 2004, 1:46:29 PM, you wrote:

thdcu> Trevor thinks,
thdcu> Subject for next meeting presentation skills ? 

Please, enlighten us...


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Best regards,
 Ian

Ian,
Giving presentations is now a regular-ish thing for 
many people and I have come accross job interview 
techniques where employers ask you to give a 
five-minute presentation

Most people are both inexperianced and 
nervous about presentations

Using OSS to produce materials 
(handouts, projector-friendly screens) and
deliver presentations is not hard. 
Standing up and delivering a presentation
can be. 

I would be willing to do a presentation on 
presentation using and leaveraging
the abilitys of linux and OSS.  I would 
not suggest doing this at Russ and Jens
BUT either location of Carlisle college or 
Whitehaven (Tangier St.) or even Gleaston
Water mill (if it were possible to arrange 
a meet there) would be suitable.

Admitedly I would enlist my wifes' help 
as she has more experiance than most
in giving presentations and organising meetings.  
If I could convince her there
was more to Linux and oss than 
installing distros it would be a good thing too.

I will be in Whitehaven over the weekend and 
may 'pop in' and talk to Rob.

Oh my god, what have I done ?

Russ, you writed,
>Possibly not one of my better ideas :-) I'm not sure I'm much better at 
>presentations. I don't know if I still do this, but once when I was 
>explaining a set of rules to a table-full of wargamers, my Yorkshire 
>accent apparently suddenly broadened to the point of being 
>indecipherable :-)

First of all the armies go on the table, the gamers are suposed to
sit around on chairs. Secondly Wargame rules are idecipherable in
any accent. I have had the joy of figuring out wargame rules.
Perhaps that glazed expresion was due less to your accent and more
to the neo-gobledygook of rules systems like WRG 6th.  Of course 
if you did make them sit on the terrain then that wouldn't have helped.




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Trevor Pearson
trevor -at- haven.demon.co.uk  
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