On Tuesday 26 April 2005 16:14, Martin Schulze wrote: > Alexander Schmehl wrote: > > Well, since this worked that well, let's try to get a step > > further: How about some kind of conference preceedings? > > Should we try collect papers / > > I guess that's overkill. > > > slides / whatever for the talks before LinuxTag, and have some > > printouts ready?
I always ask myself what the hell is the benefit of offering slides? In most cases they only have the titles of the chapters a speaker presented. From the audience point of view slides are useless. A visitor of a talk would be interested much more in having a large text he can study at home afterwards and which will give him further links to deepen the thema. If you prepare yourself for a talk it is commonly done to do a test talk whithaout audience (a stopwatch will do this :)to get a feeling of time and thema. So why not use a dictaphone and record the spoken word. Whith this you should be able to write a long text. I did so in the past though I only typed the record for my second talk ;-) > > I don't think it would be a problem to print some of them at my > > university (as long as you don't write entire books ;) > > Leaflets containing the basics may be a good idea. > > > Or do you think, that it is sufficient, to have some of the > > speakers upload their talks and just set links? IIRC that > > didn't worked very well in the last years. > > Yes. You know about the idea of a dayly LinuxTag gazette? Kurt Pfeiffle told me about that at CeBIT. That would be a good chance to place bigger articles not only slides. And if there will be no Dayly LinuxTag Gazette it might be an Idea to offer a Debian Day Booklet for a donation to SPI / Debian? Bye, TT -- Join the Fellowship and protect your freedom! http://www.fsfe.org/
