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Document looks great, well written, needed and very 'jucy'. :-) However, while we are on the topic...
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One other thing that seems to happen, but, having been up front a few times, I'm not sure there's a good way to handle it without alienating the audience, is the way and type of questions that are asked *during* a presentation. Afterward is a different can of worms.
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It is difficult to be presenting and have someone in the audience decide to give 5 minute statement about how the presenter is:
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- Not addressing the topic the way they fell it should be addressed. (Depth of expertise, introduction)
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- Not covering what they feel needs to be covered. (I.e. 'I know that we are discussing HTML and how to build a web page, but I want to know how to get my PHP script to properly read the session variables as determined by the value of the cookie I set during the last session using perl?')
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- 'I do it this way and so should you.'
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I think we lose sight, sometimes, of the fact that the people presenting are not generally paid thousands of dollars to be experts in the area in which they are presenting. They are club attendees that have found something interesting and they want to share. They are not the the guys from SGI talking about the inner-depths of XFS.
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Although this is not a 'speaker topic' per se, I think it is a speaker concern. We may have more people willing to present if this issue is handled; the whole thing is less daunting when the spectre of embarrassment is removed.
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I think the only solution may be to have the group leaders, I'm assuming those of us on the Clue-Admin list, be willing to speak up when this happens. It is difficult in the position of the speaker to say 'That's nice, but not relevant. Please ask your question as a later time.' (I.e. During an installation KISS session an audience member asked two questions about installing BSD. The speaker was left to flounder and claim ignorence. Which, although accurate, is embarrassing. Completely kills one's train of thought.) To quote Grant, 'So, are there any more *good* questions?'.
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Just something to think about, feel free to tell me to find a frigid lake to go jump in, pound sand, or ask if there are any 'good questions'.
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-D
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P.S. Grant - I thought the whole thing was wonderful. Really, I did. It was great.
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On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 10:37, Jeffery Cann wrote:
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