[haiku] Re: Tips on making presentations about Haiku
- From: David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:34:31 +1000
2009/8/26 Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>:
> I am going to have two opportunities in the next month to make some
> presentations about Haiku. For both I also intend to talk about the
> WebKit porting and browser project as well. So I want to be able to
> quickly present Haiku, it's benefits, our motivations for creating it,
> etc.
>
> One presentation will be at a "Web Monday" meet-up group, which should
> be pretty small and informal, and will be a good testing ground. The
> other will be at a Software Freedom Day being held in my Florida
> county, Palm Beach County. I'm not exactly sure what the attendence
> will be on that, but certainly more than the Web Monday meetup. But
> Haiku certainly fits the bill for such an event, and will break up
> some of the potential Linux monotony.
>
> Anyhow, I am looking for some tips on presenting Haiku, especially
> from folks like Jorge, Urias, Scott and François who have attended
> conferences and demoed Haiku. What are some of the more compelling
> features you point out? How do you present the motivation for the
> development of Haiku? Any standard responses to some of the inevitable
> "why not Linux?" questions? The latter has some risk because you don't
> want to be too negative about Linux but at the same time it is hard to
> avoid since we all do have good reasons why we aren't Linux
> developers...
>
> I guess I'd rather focus on Haiku's positives than Linux (or other OS)
> negatives.
>
> Finally, while I'm sure I could make the case for Haiku myself, I
> think it makes sense for us to collaborate to present a coherent
> message.
Before I forget again.
When I last did a demo of BeOS, the things that they really liked were
live queries
replicants
multi-desktops with different resolutions.
--
Cheers
David
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