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The presentation was a success!
Apr. 11th, 2007 02:58 pmThe presentation last night went great. Far better than I expected. I recognized only ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ahkond and an editor I knew from O'Reilly (and who I was in contact with last year about this-n-that) as people who showed up specifically to hear me, but there were maybe 30-35 people all told. Everyone seemed attentive, and as soon as I got to the slides with code examples there was a lot of discussion. Lots of requests from various people for me to back up a slide and explain things further. Sometimes other folks in the crowd would grok it quickly, and then answer those questions for me! This is rather a best-case scenario for technical presentations.
Super-geeky highlights includeddaerr fixing a bug that someone found in my example code and checking it into Subversion while the discussion about it was still going on, as well as this exchange:
Even Uri liked it! He rushed us after the talk to say that he hated games but he thought our network utilization was quite clever, though clearly we ought to be using his modules instead of our POE-based solution. That's our Uri.
I avoided talking about our business model during this presentation; that's quite literally a slideshow unto itself, the sort of thing I wouldn't be able to start explaining to a roomful of professional and business-cynical geeks without spending another half-hour backing it all up. We did talk about it afterwards to some folks who asked, though.
Anyway, I am pumped to start submitting to some really-real conferences' CFPs, now. We have missed Oscon's deadline, but they're not the only game in town. (Nor are they particularly in town, being in Portland OR.) Suggestions are welcome.
I will be posting a Flash version of the presentation soon, with audio track. This is because Keynote 3 is a pretty bitchin piece of software.
Also, I finally plugged my K-1 information into Turbotax, and even though I withdrew some taxable money from Volity's coffers last year, it's more than made up for by the fact that the company lost a lot of dough. So much so, in fact, that I'm ending up with a net refund. It's rather shocking.
ahkond and an editor I knew from O'Reilly (and who I was in contact with last year about this-n-that) as people who showed up specifically to hear me, but there were maybe 30-35 people all told. Everyone seemed attentive, and as soon as I got to the slides with code examples there was a lot of discussion. Lots of requests from various people for me to back up a slide and explain things further. Sometimes other folks in the crowd would grok it quickly, and then answer those questions for me! This is rather a best-case scenario for technical presentations.Super-geeky highlights included
daerr fixing a bug that someone found in my example code and checking it into Subversion while the discussion about it was still going on, as well as this exchange:ME: By the way, I just posted a new release of Frivolity [the Perl libraries] this morning, so it's probably still percolating its way across the CPAN even now...
SOME GUY: [looking up from his laptop] It's up. I just checked.
ME: ... OK then. It's up!
Even Uri liked it! He rushed us after the talk to say that he hated games but he thought our network utilization was quite clever, though clearly we ought to be using his modules instead of our POE-based solution. That's our Uri.
I avoided talking about our business model during this presentation; that's quite literally a slideshow unto itself, the sort of thing I wouldn't be able to start explaining to a roomful of professional and business-cynical geeks without spending another half-hour backing it all up. We did talk about it afterwards to some folks who asked, though.
Anyway, I am pumped to start submitting to some really-real conferences' CFPs, now. We have missed Oscon's deadline, but they're not the only game in town. (Nor are they particularly in town, being in Portland OR.) Suggestions are welcome.
I will be posting a Flash version of the presentation soon, with audio track. This is because Keynote 3 is a pretty bitchin piece of software.
Also, I finally plugged my K-1 information into Turbotax, and even though I withdrew some taxable money from Volity's coffers last year, it's more than made up for by the fact that the company lost a lot of dough. So much so, in fact, that I'm ending up with a net refund. It's rather shocking.