[Poll] Presentation handouts

[dancefloorlandmine]

A musing following on from the last two days presentation-fest ... if you're attending a presentation carried out via PowerPoint or similar, do you like to receive a copy of the slides, and if so, how? Also, if you do presentations, how do you usually do it?

[Poll #1145827]

Comments

[vatine]

I like having the presentation material for later reference. In some cases, I also want the presentation material in paper-form, so I can make notes. The latter is more important for long presentations (an example would be the 6h presentation on enterprise network stuffs that I sat through in Barcelona in January; scribbling on paper was truly useful, but it is a seriously small subset of presentations that more closely resemble 'lectures').

As for the exact shape presentations are available as, afterwards, I am partial to "PDF on digital storage media or as download". Paper is, at times, handy, but by far not necessary. I prefer after-session slide handouts to have all slides (possibly merging "multi-stage" slides into the final version). If there were skipped slides, they too could be included (handy way of having more data tables and what-have-you that are interesting for people to look at, pertains to the subject of the presentation, but not vital enough to be actually mentioned during the session).

Since I may end up having to do a slide show towards the later end of the year, my intent is to have the slides punted to PDF and an accompanying paper with the juicy stuff (in some ways making the slides redunant).