On Mon 09 Jul 2007, Chris Prather chris@prather.org wrote:

So I have a talk this Thursday to the MPLS.pm group about OpenGuides. Since I haven't given a public talk in years, I was wondering if anyone would care to comment on my slides.

http://chris.prather.org/og_slides/slides.html

Slide 2: "A Open Source Project" should be "An Open Source Project"; "metadtata" should be "metadata"; "an geodata application" should be "a geodata application" (also see comment on slide 3). It would also be more consistent to have the first point start "A Collection". Finally, why all the capital letters?

Slide 3: I'd put a comma after "OpenGuides", and take the brackets away from "Geodata". Also "a geodata application" is a bit of an ugly phrase; how about "a geographically-aware application", or "a geoaware application"?

Slide 4: "seperated" should be "separated"; and why is "Metadata" capitalised? Can you actually do the "all restaurants open at noon" search?

Slide 5: Why are "Long", "Lat", and "Searching" capitalised?

Slide 6: I'd change "first US guide" to "first US OpenGuide" (or do we prefer "Open Guide"?)

Slide 7: Either take the leading "The" away from the first point, or add one to the second point.

Slide 8: Earle is spelt "Earle", not "Earl" :)

Kake

should we be sticking up all the presentations we've done into a central collection somewhere for reference (and plundering when we get put on the spot and ask to create a presentation quickly)?

Happy to put up my Wikisym 06 presentation and paper.

Mark

Mark Gaved Knowledge Media Institute The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes, UK MK7 6AA

http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/mark

-----Original Message----- From: openguides-dev-bounces@lists.openguides.org on behalf of Chris Prather Sent: Mon 7/9/2007 10:30 PM To: OpenGuides software developers' list Subject: [OGDev] Upcoming Minneapolis.pm Talk

Hi,

So I have a talk this Thursday to the MPLS.pm group about OpenGuides. Since I haven't given a public talk in years, I was wondering if anyone would care to comment on my slides.

http://chris.prather.org/og_slides/slides.html

Also I feel I should publicly thank Kake and Ivorw for the material they had online that I shamelessly stole ... "researched" for these.

Thanks -Chris

On Jul 13, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Kake L Pugh wrote:

On Wed 11 Jul 2007, "M.B.Gaved" M.B.Gaved@open.ac.uk wrote:

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should we be sticking up all the presentations we've done into a central collection somewhere for reference (and plundering when we get put on the spot and ask to create a presentation quickly)?

Happy to put up my Wikisym 06 presentation and paper.

Yep, I think this is a good idea. Maybe we could start by just having a page on the dev wiki where we link to these things? I can provide hosting of papers/slides/etc if anyone needs it (as, I'm sure, can many others on the list).

Speaking of:

The talk I gave went well. The slides are (now permanently) available at http://twincities.openguides.org/mplspm_slides/index.html

I think I may have gotten some people interested in adding to the guide, and I certainly sparked an interesting discussion of Geodata and it's relative openness in the US vs in the UK. I also got an offer from Dave Rolsky who runs VegGuide.org for a dump of his data which is a very clean source of Vegan/Vegetarian restaurants (especially here in the Cities). I also got the feeling that he might be open to more inter-working between the guides and his website if we have a way to standardize our interstitial communications. He (and Ian both actually) suggested I try talking to some of the local media and Dave knew someone who might be interested in that vein. I may try to follow up on that sometime soon and start trying to pimp the Twin Cities guide some more.

-Chris