[barcampgr] Topics

[Brad Pennington]

I would like to go to bar camp but I also am kinda nervous about
presenting anything. I'm just a hacker who has never really had much of
an opportunity to compare notes with my peers and so have no idea if any
of my skills would be of interest to anybody. I do mostly
web/javascript/flash types of things. I do have some desktop apps done
with a combination of VB and Flash, that I think are a bit unique. Would
there be any place for that kind of stuff? Probably I should just try to
get a spot on the clean-up crew?

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-----Original Message-----
From: campers-bounces at barcampgr.org
[mailto:campers-bounces at barcampgr.org] On Behalf Of Adam Tauno Williams
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 10:01 AM
To: Past and future BarCamp GR participants
Subject: Re: [barcampgr] Topics

On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 08:54 -0400, Kyle Adams wrote:
> >> First Barcamp.  Is presenting required?
> > No,  but strongly encouraged.
> I would amend that a bit to say that participation is strongly 
> encouraged.  We're too lazy to actually require anything :-) If 
> presenting scares the bejeebers out of you, then help clean up

I'm someone who once *HATED* and *DREADED* public speaking and used
[abused?] a LUG in order to get over that problem (it is actually a
pretty important 'life skill' apparently).  I can tell you that if
speaking makes you squeemish barcamp is a great place to start; everyone
is in a good mood and I have yet to witness any hostile or derisive
behavior from anyone.  Everyone is peers at barcamp and the "presenter"
is really just facilitating some topic for a short period of time.

> after or setup before.  Subscribe to barcamp-organizers to see how you

> can help out:
> http://lists.barcampgr.org/listinfo.cgi/organizers-barcampgr.org
> Kyle
> PS - Sorry if this thread is dead; I'm just now getting caught up :-)

Old threads never die, they just get archived.

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