Talking to Video camera
After solaris became opensolaris, Our team in IEC has got a lot of chance to evangelise solaris
Being the only solaris group in IEC, We have got a lot of chance/opportunities to go to colleges, customers and ISV to brief them about solaris technologies and encourage them to work on Solaris.
I myself has gone to few colleges and given demo, tech talks on solaris
But my experience on last wednesday was quite different. I spoke to camera for the first time.
Vishweshwara Technical University conducts a video educational program for all the associated 120 engineering colleges. It invites companies to give Tech talks through this program
The aim is to get students aware of whats happening in Industries. It is another step to bring the gap between Industries and Institute.
Sun Microsystems India took this opportunity to introduce solaris to students. Though Computer science students have Operating Systems subject in 6th semister, they don't learn Solaris as case study.
This course is a step to push VTU to include solaris as a case study in OS course.
It was a 15 hours course. Our talk was scheduled 2 pm - 3 pm every wednesday. Since this was the introduction course, we aimed for all semister/branch students. So the talk was more intended to introduce the technology without going into the internals.
I spoke about Process model in Solaris and Proc tools. My presentation is at
http://vtu.ac.in/~edusat/Prog4/sunmicro/process-model.pdf
I am used to give talk in a open forum and interactive session. So it took a while to get the feel of talking to camera. It was like talking in a auditorium without audience.
If it was interactive session, then speaker can look at audience face and sense if they are following what ever talk is being delivered. But hear there is no such instant feedback. One will not know how many are attending this talk. So even at the end of my talk I was not sure what the feedback was.
The audience were supposed to ask question through forum
http://forum.vtu.ac.in/viewforum.php?f=59&sid=b1f0f5a32dfd20f925923680727da1d2
I got one feedback saying that talk was good. I was happy that atleast one person was there at the other end
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10:02PM Apr 08, 2006
by madhu in General |