[Speakers] Transitional/Introductory Presentations

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > Overall, I think what you're charting here is a kind of introductory tour.
> Yup.

Is that like a "three hour tour",  because we know how those turn out.

> > As such, it's a different vantage point than many earlier efforts, and if
> > it brings in the crowds and keeps 'em, great. 
> We won't know unless we try.
> > >They can see pictures of the stuff on the SuSE box in Bestbuy.
> > They CAN, but it is dangerous to assume they have.
> I'd never assume that.
> I'm only saying that people are much more impressed with the real thing,
> compared to pictures of it.  That want to SEE that things really run
> without a BSOD, they are responsive, and not "cheap imitations" of the
> "real thing" as some people associate with "free" software.

Agree, and I'm all for falling out of the presentation.  But I'd like to
leave that up to the presenter since we don't know who will be giving
this presentation, and leaving it with as few knowledge requirements is
a good thing.

> > >I would even go as far to start the presentation at the login screen,
> > >login, start OO-impress, open the slides, and continue from there.
> > >(providing that logging in doesn't screw up the projector)
> > Well, we know it does....
> No we don't.  GUI login screen to GUI desktop _may_ work fine.
> We simply need to test it before we decide.
> There is no need for "LTSP" to ever be mentioned.  For our purposes it
> appears exactly the same as a normal desktop machine.  The newbies never
> need to know that it's not a standard desktop PC.

Yep.  Maybe that is something to mention in presentation 4 or 5 - that X
is network transparent.  But certainly not up front.  X seems to be
something that blows people circuits.

> I'm thinking LTSP (or some standard box) is better because we know and
> control what software is loaded.  I may not have OpenOffice loaded on my
> laptop.  Adam's laptop may be missing something else that we should
> demo.  Using the same hardware/software every time has real advantages.

The LTSP client will be there on the cart.  I'd say we just go with
using that,  and we'll have it set to setting we know the projector is
happy with.

> It doesn't have to be the LTSP box, but I don't know of any other
> desktop that we can leave at the chamber for this purpose.
> Unless we want to reformat/reinstall a desktop on the driftwood box
> (since we officially canned that project last night).

I'll look at migrating OGo off the driftwood box after my vacation and
the ESR thing.  Then people can have it for anything they like.