[Orgmode] Re: Back from FOSDEM

[Andrea Crotti]

Bastien <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> we have had a good time at FOSDEM.  It was great to meet Carsten, Stefan
> Vollmar, Sebastien Vauban, Jose E. Marchesi, Brian Gough and others.
>
> Special thanks to Stefan, who presented a very nice use cas at his lab,
> and to Sébastien who presented a few Org Babel examples.  Org cannot be
> presented without Org Babel.
>
> The devroom was fully packed, which is about 100 people.  I expected to
> "introduce" Org and to try to convert some people, but about 70% of the
> audience was already using Org!  So the presentation was really a mix of
> generalities and a live demo of some features (to be honest: I was a bit
> stressful and tired, I wish I did a better job.)

I was there and you all did a great job, thanks!

The only things that could be made better imho is the readability.
The font was too small for all three presenters, and the minibuffer
unreadable already from the middle of the room.

Also something to popup the keys (is there anything like growl for
linux) would be very useful in this kind of presentation

>
> Note for later: when talking to hackers, forget about the slides and
> have direct fun with an Org-mode buffer, display the *magic* of with no
> taboo -- questions will come along as you hit some neat feature.

Not totally sure, some slides for giving the same background to everyone
are always useful, and they increase the hype and curiousity to see the
tool in practice.

I think that in general hackers always don't stand very well magic, they
would always like to know what key was pressed, what command given and
so on to do them by themselves.

>
> I've put my slides here:
>
>   http://lumiere.ens.fr/~guerry/u/org-fosdem-presentation-beamer.pdf
>
> One point I made : what's special about Org is that it's a reflexive
> tool, one that lets you discover the way you work and the way you want
> to work.  Forget about getting "disciplined" by some external digital
> secretary, start by having fun discovering yourself with a tool that 
> has virtually no learning curve (or "just" that of Emacs itself...) 
>

Yes that was a very nice point, might steal it in the future ;)