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Neil Brown
Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

I've finally had a chance to record myself giving my presentation for FOSDEM tomorrow. I can listen to this a few times this afternoon, and polish it.

I always make sure that I prepare to give a shorter presentation than my full timeslot, since, in my experience, there is nearly always some kind of delay in getting started, or running behind schedule etc. Plus, to allow time for questions.

But perhaps I have been *too* generous in keeping in short here, as it only runs for 12 minutes at the moment...

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Tom De Moor
Tom De Moor
@tom@social.controlaltdieliet.be replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@neil same timing here. And you have one advance on many others: you are a native speaker English. You'll do fine 💙

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Neil Brown
Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@tom Thanks! Nice to know that I am not alone, timing wise.

I'm not at all worried - I do this all the time - I just try to hold myself to high standards :)

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Simon Walters
Simon Walters
@cymplecy@fosstodon.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@neil people will be asking for their money back!

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Derick Rethans
Derick Rethans
@derickr@phpc.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@neil I could prep some questions if that's helpful?

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Neil Brown
Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@derickr Thank you! I have a couple of pre-submitted questions, but more questions are always welcome!

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Bruno Girin
Bruno Girin
@brunogirin@mastodon.me.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@neil I reckon it needs more dad jokes.

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Neil Brown
Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@brunogirin

I am always very wary of doing language-based jokes in presentations where a lot of the audience may not have English as a first language (even though many will have superb English) - just a recipe for failure, IMHO!

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Bruno Girin
Bruno Girin
@brunogirin@mastodon.me.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@neil
Fair point. I wish I was there to listen to it and say hello!

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Neil Brown
Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@brunogirin Some other time :)

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