{"id":410,"date":"2008-02-05T16:18:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T07:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/05\/vala-day-1-tech-tips-at-a-conference\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T16:18:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T07:18:42","slug":"vala-day-1-tech-tips-at-a-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/05\/vala-day-1-tech-tips-at-a-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"VALA Day 1: Tech tips at a conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experiential learning in action<\/p>\n<p>1. When presenting slides that depend on lots of transitions on mouseclick, don&#8217;t place your body between  the radio transmitter off stage and your mouse. Took me until slide 10 to work out the problem \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>2. If you are organising a conference, check the building for wireless blackspots, or arrange a temporary sponsered wireless hosting for delegates &#8211; that covers the entire building. Really not impressed that wireless at $20 for 8 hr doesn&#8217;t have coverage in the main theatre.<\/p>\n<p>3. Some seats in auditoria have power outlets under them. If you ask the techie guys looking after the venue, they will point them out.<\/p>\n<p>4. Whipping out a power board attracts a small crowd of bloggers.<\/p>\n<p>All in all a good start to the conference. Really enjoying hanging out with people I see daily online, but haven&#8217;t met in person before &#8230; and catching up with interstate folk who I haven&#8217;t seen for ages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eduserv.org.uk\/foundation\/people\/andypowell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Powell<\/a>&#8216;s keynote this morning set a high standard of technical discussion that I read about at overseas events, but not often in Australia. Yes, we should be grappling in general library forums with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frbr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">FRBR<\/a> (Functional requirements for Bibliographic Records ) and thinking about whether an institutional based repository model allows for a global community of scholars. We should be turning our focus from enabling storage in a repository to designing an architecture that maximises discoverability on the Web.<\/p>\n<p>My presentation went OK. I was happy with it and people seem to like it.<\/p>\n<p>More thoughts about the conference as they gel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experiential learning in action 1. When presenting slides that depend on lots of transitions on mouseclick, don&#8217;t place your body between the radio transmitter off stage and your mouse. Took me until slide 10 to work out the problem \ud83d\ude42 2. If you are organising a conference, check the building for wireless blackspots, or arrange&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-6C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}