[Sketching17] Presentation format/topic recommendations

[Mike Kuniavsky]

"Radical Hardware" -- In a nutshell: WHY do we create new technological 
tools? Given that tools have envelopes of possibilities--they enable 
certain kinds of products more easily than others--how do we create tools 
that intentionally make it easier for people to do the right thing than 
the wrong thing? The discussion is of course about how to define the 
blurred lines and enable the output. It's hard and ambiguous, but it's 
possible. My canonical example is the Mac Toolbox (and its descendants): 
which embodied a set of principles in a tool that made it easier and more 
desirable for developers enact those principles than to not enact them. It 
was not a universal solution, but it created a significant impact.

But, you know, you can talk about whatever you want. It's Sketching. ;-)

On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, Tom Igoe (gmail account) wrote:

> What's this year's theme, again?
> 
> On Jul 26, 2017 11:11 AM, "Mike Kuniavsky" <mikek at sketching-in-hardware.com> wrote:
>       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
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Mike Kuniavsky
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