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    # Technical Speaking
    ## Basics:
    ### ( ) Introduce yourself
    Proportional to the talk

    ### ( ) Longer full-feature talk === more intro
    ### ( ) Lighting talks === more succinct intro
    - ( ) Name
    - ( ) Where you work
    - ( ) How long have you been doing this
    - ( ) Anything that can give you credibility
    - ( ) Use the Meetup board to cheat and get more intro in
    ### ( ) Be clear
    - ( ) Ensure that your message is getting transmitted; fully.
    - ( ) You can’t control reception, but you can certainly affect transmission
    - ( ) You can do anything you want on stage, except one thing; be confusing.
    ### ( ) Be Focused
    - ( ) A common trait in tutorials is to finely focus the topic by about a few minutes
    - ( ) Ted Talks, famously, have an 18 minute limit
    - ( ) Use notes from your presentation
    ### ( ) Treat the audience with the most respect
    - ( ) Give them something
    - ( ) Share what you’re going to do
    - ( ) Use Codepen
    - ( ) Use GitHub
    - ( ) Use the most common area to share, but don’t over share
    - ( ) You have statute of limitations on how long you have to share
    - ( ) Share prior to
    - ( ) Links, articles
    - ( ) Code snippets, handouts
    - ( ) Tell them how much more is left with a progress indicator
    ### ( ) Be on time
    - ( ) Use a clock to track yourself
    - ( ) Hit your time
    - ( ) Aim for ± 30 seconds
    - ( ) Remember the dot at the beginning on the blank side? That was a one pixel signal to me that the slide deck is working.
    ### ( ) Use the best tools that you can
    - ( ) If you like slides, be good at your slides
    - ( ) Popups and notifications ruin your presentation
    - ( ) Have backups
    ### ( ) Do the Prep Work
    - ( ) Spell check
    - ( ) Fact Check
    - ( ) Notes
    - ( ) Practice
    ## Advanced:
    ### ( ) Never apologize
    - ( ) Don’t give your audience something to fixate on
    #### Go easy on the live coding
    - ( ) Kind of like making jokes, don’t do it unless you know you’re good
    - ( ) Live coding can be really boring for some
    - ( ) Coding mostly goes wrong for me in private
    - ( ) If you must, then share your work
    #### Know your environment
    - ( ) Is it day or night
    - ( ) Does it have a dark room or not
    - ( ) Can people ask questions that all can hear?
    - ( ) Can you control any of the environmentals?
    - ( ) Can you perform a site survey to determine room temp, brightness, natural lighting issues, self-locking doors.
    ### Technicals
    - ( ) Use appropriate font size for heading
    - ( ) Use appropriate font size for body
    Go easy on distracting .gifs
    - ( ) Use appropriate color
    - ( ) Use a progress bar
    - ( ) Use a timer on the back end
    - ( ) One of the rudest things is to miss your time.
    - ( ) For anyone following
    - ( ) And the audience
    - ( ) Allow for bathroom breaks if longer than an hour
    - ( ) But short, bigger venues will have the logistics worked out
    - ( ) Use notes
    - ( ) Use a template if possible
    - ( ) Rehearse
    - ( ) Use a blank slide with a 1 pixel marker in the bottom so you can see it but no one else can
    - ( ) Use a remote
    ### Gear:
    - ( ) Have backups
    - ( ) Backup slides
    - ( ) Backup server,
    - ( ) Thumb drives,
    - ( ) Internet access?
    ### Appearance:
    - ( ) Look sharp
    - ( ) Dress like you’re standing in front of people
    - ( ) Hot lights, might be sweaty
    - ( ) Dark shirts can hide pitting
    - ( ) Sweaters or sport jackets
    - ( ) Deodorant antiperspirant
    - ( ) Sweaty hands? Bring a towel
    - ( ) Don't turn your back on the them
    ### Audience:
    - ( ) When asking questions, make sure all can hear
    - ( ) Mics, face the crowd, stand
    - ( ) Pay attention
    - ( ) Take paper notes if you can
    - ( ) Follow along
    - ( ) No “Stump the Chump” question
    - ( ) Have you ever been driving and your passenger gets mad that you missed a turn or chose a longer route:
    - ( ) It’s because the driver is concerned with far more than scenery. There’s pace, cadence, everyone else in the car.
    - ( ) The same is true for speakers
    - ( ) They are ensuring that each person in the audience is “getting it”, pace of the talk, time, communication between support staff.
    ### Ask for real feedback
    - ( ) A good rule of thumb for audience members is to provide 3 good, 3 bad
    - ( ) Audience members should be professional
    - ( ) Audience, give real feedback
    - ( ) If you can’t say it to the person’s face, then maybe don’t say it
    - ( ) I’m not necessarily a fan of anonymous feedback
    ### Summarize
    - ( ) Reiterate what you said at the beginging