PortableApps.com developer Steve Lamerton will be representing us at FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels on February 6th and 7th. He'll be giving a Lightning Talk on the PortableApps.com Platform on Saturday. You may be most familiar with Steve as the developer behind our popular Toucan backup, sync and encryption utility. Hopefully, you can drop in on Steve's lightning talk Saturday morning. If not, keep an eye out for a red PortableApps.com polo and say hi.
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Bit Late
This didn't go up properly yesterday as it should have. I heard from a friend that the lightning talk went great
Hopefully anybody else at FOSDEM can find Steve and say hi!
Was this know at an earlier
Was this know at an earlier stage so you could have promoted it on time so people could have visited FOSDEM who otherwise would not have?
Newsletter
It was promoted in the newsletter and it's on the FOSDEM site as well. As with OSCON, we don't really promote it largely ahead of time as we're more mentioning it for people attending the conference, not promoting it to the general userbase expecting them to come to the conference just for a short lightning talk as I did at OSCON and Steve did at FOSDEM. If we wind up doing a larger presentation somewhere, we'll promote that earlier and louder.
Recording
Is there a recording of Steve's talk?
I'd like to see what he said.
Don't Know, Slides
I don't know, but we may post the slides.
Just
to say I am back in the UK again after a good weekend, slides and video will go up at some point on the FOSDEM website and I'll post a blog entry in the next few days with more feedback! Thanks to everyone who turned up for the talk though!
Found the video on
Found the video on here.
http://video.fosdem.org/2010/lightningtalks/saturday/
Its supposed to go up on their youtube soon too.
http://youtube.com/fosdemtalks
EDIT: just watched it. Good talk Steve, encouraging developers to make their apps portable friendly is a great way to spread the word and get more apps and users.
Everyone should watch this, especially cause Steve has a wicked cool accent
Downloaded and watched.
Downloaded and watched.
Thanks for posting
ditto
Love the Shirt!!!
Thanks for posting that
Thanks for posting that video; I just watched it. Nice work, Steve!
Saw It
Well, he didn't choke :-).
(Subliminal Message: Everybody read Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds.)
Is
that a voice of disapproval? If so I would prefer something a little more constructive than being told to go buy something. Thankyou to everyone else for their support though!
Sorry for the delay on the blog post, currently somewhat under the weather, hopefully I'll get it done soon.
My first thought was, wow,
My first thought was, wow, he's young :p. Same thing when I finally saw JTH.
I guess the only thing I have to say is keep the slides up with you. And avoid ums. (Which is a pet peeve from taking speech classes and a music class in which we gave a speech that the teacher would have people do things like bang gongs when you said um).
Otherwise, it was a excellent talk. You did a very good job, in spite of my pet peeves. Thanks for representing the site.
(Can you tell I'm not very good at giving criticisms? Take it with a grain of salt, and yell at me when I stagger beck to IRC if needed.)
Heh. You ever give a
Heh. You ever give a presentation in front of that many people? Different from presenting to peers you know.
Not-so-Subliminal-Message: Be nice.
Re:
I can testify to that. I've done public events with 25-30 people, and it's more than a bit trying to get up in front of them. There were, what, 100 people in that room?
+5000
Not-so-Subliminal-Message #2: 'fess up, tell Steve he did a good job.
My
thoughts are now up here, continuing discussion should probably live there too!