[OSDC Israel] feedbacks from the conference

[Ori Peleg]

Good points!

For the less-technical aspects I like the pointers at Presentation Zen,
http://presentationzen.blogs.com/

Gaal Yahas wrote:
> Let's put this on a Wiki somewhere. For starters:
> 
> * Secure a laptop on which you'll be doing your presentation. Make sure
>   it looks like you want it to at 1024x768, which is what most projectors
>   can display. (Better: find out for sure. Some only do 800x600.) Colors
>   will be a little bit off, so either don't care about colors too much
>   or calibrate in the classroom much like musicians perform balance
>   before a gig.
> 
> * Have a plan for what to do if your laptop dies the night before your
>   talk. (I don't mean "Panic". I mean something like, "I'll need to: 1.
>   borrow a laptop running linux; 2. wget slides from $URL; 3. install
>   frobtz version 4.117. Yes, this is a lot like deploying software
>   at a client site.) If you are precisely the opposite of me and have
>   everything prepared well in advance, consider burning a livecd with
>   your talk. Make a spare.
> 
> * Dark on light, high contrast == visible. Light on dark background ==
>   audience in the dark, sleeping.
> 
> * Large fonts.
> 
> * Minimize typing. Unless you are Audrey you type slower than your
>   audience thinks.
> 
> * Think about presentation styles you've seen in real life. Optimize for
>   delivery to your live audience, not future readers online. (Personal
>   example: I thought Takahashi style was too videoclippy and
>   populistic. Now that I've seen it in action I'm considering learning
>   to use it myself.)
> 
> * "What are you saying to help me with the problem you assume me to have?"
>