How long are the sessions? Are we dividing the time into hour blocks, or half-hour blocks, or what? How will that all work?<br clear="all"><br>- daniel parker -<br><br>"You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit." Job 10:12<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Jason Porritt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jasonporritt@gmail.com">jasonporritt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
For what it's worth, leading a session doesn't always have to mean<br>
coming with an hour-long presentation prepared. Some of my past<br>
favorites have been a brief presentation, followed by a big question<br>
and time for (very lively) discussion.<br>
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On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Brad Pennington<<a href="mailto:BPennington@media1.us">BPennington@media1.us</a>> wrote:<br>
> I would like to go to bar camp but I also am kinda nervous about<br>
> presenting anything. I'm just a hacker who has never really had much of<br>
> an opportunity to compare notes with my peers and so have no idea if any<br>
> of my skills would be of interest to anybody. I do mostly<br>
> web/javascript/flash types of things. I do have some desktop apps done<br>
> with a combination of VB and Flash, that I think are a bit unique. Would<br>
> there be any place for that kind of stuff? Probably I should just try to<br>
> get a spot on the clean-up crew?<br>
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> On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 08:54 -0400, Kyle Adams wrote:<br>
>> >> First Barcamp. Is presenting required?<br>
>> > No, but strongly encouraged.<br>
>> I would amend that a bit to say that participation is strongly<br>
>> encouraged. We're too lazy to actually require anything :-) If<br>
>> presenting scares the bejeebers out of you, then help clean up<br>
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> I'm someone who once *HATED* and *DREADED* public speaking and used<br>
> [abused?] a LUG in order to get over that problem (it is actually a<br>
> pretty important 'life skill' apparently). I can tell you that if<br>
> speaking makes you squeemish barcamp is a great place to start; everyone<br>
> is in a good mood and I have yet to witness any hostile or derisive<br>
> behavior from anyone. Everyone is peers at barcamp and the "presenter"<br>
> is really just facilitating some topic for a short period of time.<br>
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>> after or setup before. Subscribe to barcamp-organizers to see how you<br>
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>> PS - Sorry if this thread is dead; I'm just now getting caught up :-)<br>
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