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Mon, Aug 14th 11:02pm 2006: Conferences
OSCON was fantastic, pity I didn't get to see it! Or not much, anyway. Damian Conway's speaker training class on the Sunday night before the first tutorial day was great, but it meant that I frantically spent the rest of the week restructuring my talks based on his advice so I only ended up going to about 4 talks other than my own :-(
The extra preparation was worth it in the end though. My last talk (the hardware hacking one) got a fairly serious makeover in terms of structure and flow compared to how I presented it at OSDC last year, and it ended up flowing much better. I had quite a few people tell me afterwards it was the best session of the conf, which was pretty amazing and a huge compliment given the company I was in! I know I'll never be even in the same ballgame as Damian but at least I can have fun trying.
After flying back in and arriving late morning on the Monday I was back working within a few hours and haven't had time to stop since.
OSCON was fantastic, pity I didn't get to see it! Or not much, anyway. Damian Conway's speaker training class on the Sunday night before the first tutorial day was great, but it meant that I frantically spent the rest of the week restructuring my talks based on his advice so I only ended up going to about 4 talks other than my own :-(
The extra preparation was worth it in the end though. My last talk (the hardware hacking one) got a fairly serious makeover in terms of structure and flow compared to how I presented it at OSDC last year, and it ended up flowing much better. I had quite a few people tell me afterwards it was the best session of the conf, which was pretty amazing and a huge compliment given the company I was in! I know I'll never be even in the same ballgame as Damian but at least I can have fun trying.
After flying back in and arriving late morning on the Monday I was back working within a few hours and haven't had time to stop since.
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