The Goldfish Chronicles

Well… I did it. Finally talked at ApacheCon to about 20 people, so not very intimidating. Sanjiva’s WS/REST talk had one section of the conference (post Roy’s packed talk) and Sandor Temme had the other group for his 2 hour talk on HTTP Server.

I improved the talk a little with help from Bjorn Townsend, and then with some suggestions from Brian McCallister I pimped it up such that it wasn’t just a bunch of bullet points. I also pulled a chunk of the content out into post-it notes that only I would be able to see.

Unfortunately that failed at launch - I could show the audience my notes on the screen, but not reverse it so that they saw the presentation. So I had to fly without notes, which was irritating as there were various bits I didn’t cover.

Reaction to the talk was positive - and a couple of POI committer/contributors (Yegor and David) were happy that the original description was satisfactorily achieved. Generally I think the crowd was ASF aware, rather than people who are only just starting to contribute to OSS. They were probably learning about REST and HTTP. That’s one of the tricky things at ApacheCon; the business track is very attractive to the ASF developer audience, and it slowly merges into an ASF track which is less of interest to either ASF audience or ASF users.

For the presentation notes, see the following ’site’.

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