[darcs-users] darcs in 2010: talk/video online
Eric Kow
kowey at darcs.net
Tue Sep 14 10:52:59 UTC 2010
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 08:59:22 +0200, Karel Gardas wrote:
> Also, although UI of prezi might look kind of geeky, it's awful at least
> to my eyes. All this rotating and jumping is good enough to just get
> seasickness! And also it consumes a lot of time. My guess is 50/50 for
> jumping/rotating and reading itself.
Many thanks!
Feedback on the video (*especially* criticism) is useful to have
especially considering that we're partly communicating outside the happy
little Darcs world, so we need to work hard on getting things right :-)
If I had the energy to redo this video, I may do the following
differently:
* Turn on my camera for at least a bit of the video: one because staring
at the same slide for X minutes is boring and two because natural
facial expressions could be useful for communicating
* Send people a stable link to something like
http://wiki.darcs.net/Talks/Darcs-2010
so that I can make corrections like the missing 7th video.
* SLOW DOWN! Chipmunk on amphetamines
* TALK LESS (learn to cut) [but I guess still saying enough that
it's clear that Darcs is moving]
* Rethink infinite canvas usage: I'm experimenting with Prezi not
because of the it-looks-cool factor, but because the promise of an
infinite canvas is that you can show, visually, how ideas are related
to each other. In other words, it's all about trying to achieve clear
communication.
Here, for example, I tried to show the three development themes all
follow a Now -> Soon -> Later track, but considering Mathias's query
about annotate, I didn't do a very good job of making it clear.
Perhaps a table structure would have been easier to follow.
=========== ========== ======== ==============
NOW SOON LATER
=========== ========== ======== ==============
Performance record get huge repos?
annotate
----------- ---------- -------- --------------
Reliability Windows API patch theory 3
----------- ----------- -------- --------------
Usability UTF-8 annotate GUI
defaults rebase conflicts
interactive
----------- ----------- -------- --------------
I'm going to try using Prezi for a few more presentations. I think
that learning to use an infinite canvas effectively requires some
practice, so I'm not going to give up just yet, but just make lots
of mistakes and hopefully get better at it in the process.
--
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