in reply to JAPH Workshop at Brazilian Perl Users Meeting

This is just a comment about the schedule -

I would recommend taking at least five minute break after every hour - and then a slightly longer break in the middle. Otherwise people are going to glaze over or get overwhelmed, or worse, ditch during the coffee break.

I think four fifty minute sections with two ten minute breaks and one 20 would work pretty well.

sounds fun though! good luck with it - and brazil - so jealous. --rachel

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Re^2: JAPH Workshop at Brazilian Perl Users Meeting
by rvosa (Curate) on Sep 30, 2004 at 02:54 UTC
    As with any conference - people come, to a great extent, to be entertained. The most memorable talks (other than the horrible failures) are the ones that are out of the ordinary: with cool examples, with humour.

    You have to be very, very lenient with your audience - 4 hours is long, so don't expect to give four times the amount you'd put in a one-hour-high-octane lecture. People will simply tune out. I have a tendency to cram way too much information in my talks, so I always try to tone it down. This is even more the case with long lectures.

    Good luck though, this sounds very cool.
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