[Sketching17] Presentation format/topic recommendations

[Mike Kuniavsky]

I realize it's the 11th hour, but if you're presenting, here are some 
recomendations for how to think about what to present:

The Skeetching presentation format is quite open and the content is up to 
you, but it should ideally have two qualities:

1. It should be about something that is exciting to you.
2. It should be 18 minutes long, and no longer. We are going to be very 
strict about time limits because the schedule is so packed.

If possible, we request that presentations should be on something that you 
haven't talked about elsewhere, and you should try to address this year's 
theme. If the thing you're really excited about doesn't fit the theme, 
though, that's fine, too.

PLEASE minimize biographical information. If you'd like to present a 
retrospective of your work to set the context, please keep it to 3 
minutes, but the bulk of your presentation should be about something new 
or something old that's totally awesome.

Likewise, please limit any video you show to 1 minute or less, unless it's 
so awesome that it can't be contained in 1 minute. In that case you get 3 
minutes.

Past presentations have been on everything from reviews of recent 
research, to descriptions of specific projects, to demonstrations of new 
devices and software, to describing the work students have done, to 
impassioned challenges to the community.

Your audience will be technically sophisticated, but not necessarily 
engineers, so please calibrate the technical content of your presentations 
accordingly.

Thank you and see you all very soon!

-- 
Mike Kuniavsky
mikek at sketching-in-hardware.com