• Ethan Watson (16/16) Jan 20 2017 Landed in my inbox while I was on holiday in Australia (why did I
• Walter Bright (1/1) Jan 20 2017 Nice work! Congratulations!
• Jacob Carlborg (4/19) Jan 20 2017 Was there a recording uploaded?
• Ethan Watson (3/4) Jan 20 2017 It's behind GDC's paywall. Need to see if I can release it from
• Jacob Carlborg (4/8) Jan 20 2017 That's a disappointment :(. I hope you can get break it free.
• Meta (3/19) Jan 20 2017 Congratulations on the successful talk. It's unfortunate that you
• Andrei Alexandrescu (4/19) Jan 21 2017 Congratulations, that looks like a very good performance! Could you
• Ethan Watson (23/26) Jan 21 2017 The core functionality is that a web link is provided that allows

Ethan Watson <gooberman gmail.com> writes:

Landed in my inbox while I was on holiday in Australia (why did I 
leave it three and a half years between visits jeez never do that 
again you fool).

http://imgur.com/a/I6GrF

In summary:

* 4.5 out of 5 audience rating. Average was 4.22.
* Head count of 51. I assume the entire rest of the conference 
was at John Romero's talk.
* Written feedback was very positive.
* Taking questions during the talk via the Google Slides feature 
was seen as a *very* good thing. I will run the same format for 
the DConf talk I plan on submitting, keep the runtime under 
control that way.
* Some people wanted more actual usage of the language than what 
we did to facilitate rapid development with the language. Fair 
call, but not the kind of talk I wrote.

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

Nice work! Congratulations!

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2017-01-20 10:26, Ethan Watson wrote:
 Landed in my inbox while I was on holiday in Australia (why did I leave
 it three and a half years between visits jeez never do that again you
 fool).

 http://imgur.com/a/I6GrF

 In summary:

 * 4.5 out of 5 audience rating. Average was 4.22.
 * Head count of 51. I assume the entire rest of the conference was at
 John Romero's talk.
 * Written feedback was very positive.
 * Taking questions during the talk via the Google Slides feature was
 seen as a *very* good thing. I will run the same format for the DConf
 talk I plan on submitting, keep the runtime under control that way.
 * Some people wanted more actual usage of the language than what we did
 to facilitate rapid development with the language. Fair call, but not
 the kind of talk I wrote.

Was there a recording uploaded?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

Ethan Watson <gooberman gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 20 January 2017 at 12:28:54 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
 Was there a recording uploaded?

It's behind GDC's paywall. Need to see if I can release it from 
its prison.

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2017-01-20 14:39, Ethan Watson wrote:
 On Friday, 20 January 2017 at 12:28:54 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
 Was there a recording uploaded?

 It's behind GDC's paywall. Need to see if I can release it from its prison.

That's a disappointment :(. I hope you can get break it free.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

Meta <jared771 gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 20 January 2017 at 09:26:10 UTC, Ethan Watson wrote:
 Landed in my inbox while I was on holiday in Australia (why did 
 I leave it three and a half years between visits jeez never do 
 that again you fool).

 http://imgur.com/a/I6GrF

 In summary:

 * 4.5 out of 5 audience rating. Average was 4.22.
 * Head count of 51. I assume the entire rest of the conference 
 was at John Romero's talk.
 * Written feedback was very positive.
 * Taking questions during the talk via the Google Slides 
 feature was seen as a *very* good thing. I will run the same 
 format for the DConf talk I plan on submitting, keep the 
 runtime under control that way.
 * Some people wanted more actual usage of the language than 
 what we did to facilitate rapid development with the language. 
 Fair call, but not the kind of talk I wrote.

Congratulations on the successful talk. It's unfortunate that you 
were scheduled at the same time as Romero.

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:

On 01/20/2017 04:26 AM, Ethan Watson wrote:
 Landed in my inbox while I was on holiday in Australia (why did I leave
 it three and a half years between visits jeez never do that again you
 fool).

 http://imgur.com/a/I6GrF

 In summary:

 * 4.5 out of 5 audience rating. Average was 4.22.
 * Head count of 51. I assume the entire rest of the conference was at
 John Romero's talk.
 * Written feedback was very positive.
 * Taking questions during the talk via the Google Slides feature was
 seen as a *very* good thing. I will run the same format for the DConf
 talk I plan on submitting, keep the runtime under control that way.
 * Some people wanted more actual usage of the language than what we did
 to facilitate rapid development with the language. Fair call, but not
 the kind of talk I wrote.

Congratulations, that looks like a very good performance! Could you 
please explain a bit how the Google Slides feature you mentioned works? 
-- Andrei

Ethan Watson <gooberman gmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 21 January 2017 at 16:32:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
 Congratulations, that looks like a very good performance! Could 
 you please explain a bit how the Google Slides feature you 
 mentioned works? -- Andrei

The core functionality is that a web link is provided that allows 
people to enter questions. Visitors to this web link can also 
upvote questions they want to see answered. These questions show 
up on the secondary window used by the speaker to control the 
presentation. At any time, the speaker can click on a question 
and the slides being displayed will be replaced by the question. 
Another click and you've either selected another question; or 
you're back to the presentation.

There's a few implementation details to keep in mind. It requires 
the presentation monitor to be a separate display to your laptop 
monitor etc. The default rendering actually shrinks your 
presentation so that it can display that web link at the top of 
the presentation - which I decided was rubbish so I installed 
Stylebot on Chrome and altered the CSS to keep the presentation 
at full size but overlay the question link (which requires you to 
keep blank space at the top of your presentation)

Question sessions also keep their history for later review.

The part that works out very well is that it forces people to 
keep their questions short and to the point; and since it's a 
vote system you don't end up spending a ton of time on questions 
that only one or two people in the audience are interested in.