[barcampgr] Topics

[Jason Porritt]

For what it's worth, leading a session doesn't always have to mean
coming with an hour-long presentation prepared.  Some of my past
favorites have been a brief presentation, followed by a big question
and time for (very lively) discussion.

--Jason

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Brad Pennington<BPennington at media1.us> wrote:
> 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
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> 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
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>> 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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