AMK's Journal

Today I looked at my slides for the 2009 'Giving a Talk', and took inspiration from how random my images were. So I gave up on the idea of a travelling theme and just thought up possible images for each individual slide, not trying to unify them with a concept. That made it easy to find a suitable image for each slide. Therefore, my slides are now done! All that's left is rehearsing!

I showed Barb my slides and we discussed what sort of images would make sense for what's a fairly abstract talk about writing and editorial guidelines. I eventually decided upon a 'travel' theme -- a "What's New" shows you the terrain -- but finding images is still difficult. Maps are obviously relevant and very abundant online. Users vs. developers can be illustrated by tourists v. tour guides, but it's surprisingly hard to find an image that says "tour guide". After an hour or two of searching I only managed to find about half the images I need.

Today I produced a rough first draft of my WriteTheDocs slides, creating first-cut versions of the slides and writing the speaker's notes. Tomorrow, I'll make a revision pass and then do a run-through while alone in my office.