Kern, I like the presentation; what I would like to point out is that you have ~30 pages with content and only 30-40 minutes to talk about them, leaving you with only a little more than a minute for each page. I suggest that you practice this presentation in front of a small audience, at a local LUG or college, for example - I believe you will be bombarded with questions and find out you won't be able to wrap it up. I gave a presentation at a local university last year about the FOSS solutions I use at my workplace; 12 slides, one hour, and it was barely enough. You could shave a bit of the technical info and highlight the following:
- Quote the poll Peter Buschman ran last year and talk about the scenarios where people are using Bacula. - Talk about the features that make Bacula a boon to sysadmins: restore estimates, direct queries to the catalog, portable Win32/*nix restores, scriptability. - Make a HW/SW compatibility matrix: SUSE, RHEL, Fedora, Debian, LTO, SDLT, VXA, autochangers. Try and make people see that Bacula is enterprise ready. - A few screenshots (Bacula web-gui, tray-monitor, wxconsole) would make things prettier. Just my $0.02. Regards, Georger ----- Mensagem original ---- De: Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: bacula-devel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; bacula-users <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Enviadas: Quarta-feira, 3 de Janeiro de 2007 12:15:54 Assunto: [Bacula-users] FOSDEM slide presentation Hello, I've posted to the web site a preliminary copy of the slide show that I plan to present at FOSDEM in Febrary, and would appreciate your feedback on it. I haven't timed the talk yet, but it should be about 30-40 minutes. I would like to have better graphics for the one graphics slide I have, but then I'm not very good as an artist. About the only other thing I am thinking about doing is showing some actual commands and output much like what is in the Brief Tutorial chapter of the manual -- the problem is that such text either is too small to read on a projected screen or requires 3 slides to get it up ... You can view it at: http://www.bacula.org/presentations/Bacula-FOSDEM-talk-24Feb07.pdf Best regards, Kern PS: I am not yet sure if I will give the talk on the 24th or the 25th. __________________________________________________ Fale com seus amigos de graça com o novo Yahoo! Messenger http://br.messenger.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
