Presentations Galore 2005 December 3
In the last few days I gave two presentations. One was on November 30 at a Rutgers University SCILS colloquim on “Open Source/Open Access. What’s This All About?” that I titled “An Introduction to Open Source, Open Standards, and Open Access for Librarians” (also available: Suggested Readings). It was nice to be able to go back to the old grad school and talk to the current crop of students. The other one was at the Cherry Hill Linux Users Group (CHLUG) and it was about the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS).
For both presentations I made a S5 slide show (although I didn’t use most of the one I made for CHLUG; opting to do it in more as a demonstration. although these were the first two presentations I used S5 for, I was real happy with it and I plan on continuing to use it. If you don’t mind cosing HTML by hand, it is a good choice for a slide show IMO.
The presentations both went well and I got some good, positive feed back from both of them. If I ever do another presentation on FHS though, I think I will need a longer amount of time. In fact, if I do it at LUG/IP, what I’d like to do is split it up over 3 or 4 months, doing 20 or so minutes a month on different portions of it. I think that would be the most effective way to get the information across without dedicating two+ hours to it.