Silly description of internal state
As mentioned before I am speaking about KDE today in a congress.
I always get very jittery when I have to speak to an audience. Which, to someone that teaches 3 or 6 3-hour classes a week, is pretty stressing.
On one hand, I am pretty sure I can speak about the life of crabs for two hours and have the people thank me on the way out. I am pretty good at this.
On the other hand, I have a tendency to underprepare when it's a once-off affair (like today).
I don't like using slideshows, so I just hook my comp. to the screen and start speaking.
I don't have notes.
I don't have a set of points planned.
So, every time I speak, it is a different thing. Which is good. But it makes me very nervous.
What will happen if today I fail to figure out what to say? What happens if I come 20 minutes short? Well, nothing happens, I just stretch the Q&A section a bit and let them go get free food earlier.
But it still makes me nervous.
I'm sure you did well. Only a few people have the hability to speak many hours about nothing (which, on the other hand, can look like 'speaking many hours about everything').
Now that the talked finished, what can you say about it? (Sorry I did't assist to it, 80 bucks was too damn expensive to me).
Well, didn´t suck too much.
I will be putting up something about the event soon, but the PyDS computer is at home right now instead of in the office, so while I can write it, I can´t post it :-)
On the other hand, seing all that people talking and talking about money and companies and politics really made me want to write some code and docs to cleanse my mind, so I am writing a new realtime tutorial, this one about creating a spatial file manager in two days.
So far it´s spatial, but doesn´t manage much ;-)