My presentation at the Ubuntu Developer Summit
It was a few months ago, however the videos from the Ubuntu Developer Summit have finally been made available to me in a streamable form. This was a short, unrehearsed talk I gave to briefly convince the Ubuntu developer community that Wine isn’t a threat to free software, but rather an important tool that makes migration to a free platform possible.
Advice for those giving presentations
After rewatching the above, I can say the following things with confidence.
- The fewer words on your slides, the better.
- Bullet points aren’t short enough.
- If you start with a borrowed joke it will come off awkward.
- Unless you can’t be funny, write your own jokes.
- Never let someone control the slides for you.
Wine Bug Day this Sunday
Now, while I have your attention, how about you participate in the next Wine Bug Day for this Sunday? It’s very simple – mostly we’re just downloading random games and playing them for a bit to see if a bug is still there. And it all helps Wine development, so it’s good. Check out the wiki page and join us!
I packaged a Windows game called Progress Quest in 2008 for Ubuntu Hardy, and it is still available from Ubuntu Multiverse in Karmic. The package is called pq. There is a user manual available from http://www.progressquest.com/ubuntu/
Love the presentation man. You’re a real charmer.
Hey Scott nice job. You are very good at public speaking
about wow: in my class at university the ratio is actually greater 25% (2 of 7 people using wow on wine and a third one who switches between windows & wine)