[TriLUG] Meeting 14 May: How to Give a Tech Talk

[Bill Farrow via TriLUG]

Topic: How to Give a Tech Talk
Presenters: Brian Gerard, Daniel Farrell, Jason Hibbets, Sandi Metz,
Chris Collins
When: Thursday, 14th May, 7pm (pizza from 6.45pm)
Where: NC State Engineering Building 2 Room 1021, Centennial Campus
Parking: The parking decks and Oval Drive street parking are free after 5pm
Web: https://trilug.org/2015-05-14/giving-a-talk

Synopsis:
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Giving a tech talk can seem daunting. Come get some tips and tricks
from folks who have done it before.

This presentation will be a panel discussion about how to give a
technical presentation. Panelists Brian Gerard, Daniel Farrell, Jason
Hibbets, Sandi Metz, and Chris Collins will join us to talk about how
they prepare to give a presentation, what to do and avoid during a
presentation, how they handle questions from the crowd, and other
aspects of presenting.

Bios:
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Brian Gerard has been working with various *nixes, and Linux
specifically, since the mid-'90s, as a Systems Administrator, a
Software Engineer, and an end user. After eight years developing abuse
defenses for Yahoo! and training their engineers, he now uses his
expertise doing deployment automation and security work for WebAssign.

Daniel Farrell is a Software Engineer on Red Hat’s SDN Team, where he
contributes to upstream OpenDaylight and OPNFV. He has been involved
in SDN’s development since it emerged from Stanford, including early
OpenFlow and OpenStack work. He’s now an active committer on
OpenDaylight’s Integration Team.

Jason Hibbets is a senior community evangelist in Corporate Marketing
at Red Hat where he is a community manager for Opensource.com. He has
been with Red Hat since 2003 and is the author of The foundation for
an open source city. Prior roles include senior marketing specialist,
project manager, Red Hat Knowledgebase maintainer, and support
engineer.

Sandi Metz, author of "Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby",
believes in simple code and straightforward explanations. She prefers
working software, practical solutions and lengthy bicycle trips (not
necessarily in that order) and consults and teaches and speaks on all
things OOP.