Re: [Myexperiment-discuss] new talks

[Linde, A.E.]

Giovanni,

Carole is a highly experienced and very engaging speaker: any meeting which can retain her as a keynote speaker is guaranteed a large audience and that is why she is in such high demand. She will have designed her slides to suit the audience she was addressing: that they are made available afterwards for others to peruse is down to her own generosity and desire to allow others to learn from them. Looking at them from outside the audience is to take them out of context and criticizing them on that basis is grossly unfair and unreasonable. 

I am not directly connected to myExperiment but am using the code on my own project and I can assure you that it is entirely open source and the community open and welcoming.

Cheers,
Tony.

-- 
Tony Linde
Project Manager
Department of Physics & Astronomy
University of Leicester

On 16/10/2008 22:08, "Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Well, I don't want to be rude... but honestly, if I can give you my opinion, I've found that presentation a bit irritating :).
>
> First of all, the slides are too much full of text. You should redistribute the contents in more slides, and maybe cut something. For example, in the first slides, the first two points are enought.
>
> Second, please don't put that many 'windows vista like' screenshots. 
> I really hate them.
> They gave me the feeling that myExperiment was just another 'just for cool windows-mac and java programmers' thing, so well, maybe we other OS users are weird people, but we exist anyway.
>
> Moreover, your slides are only available in office 2003 and 2007 format. I don't own a license for any of these two programs.
> Can you please upload an odt or pdf version, too?
> And can you put on slideshare, also?
>
> The problem is that I always intended myExperiment as a sort of opensource-like community.
> I can't explain you exactly why, but honestly, with that presentation, it gives me the feeling that it is not.
> Please don't get mad at me, it's just my opinion :)
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:22 AM, David De Roure <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Carole's latest talk is now available on the myExperiment wiki – called "Curating Data? Curating Services!", it was delivered last week at the 21st International CODATA Conference, Ukraine, Kyiv and features myExperiment and Biocatalogue. 
> >
> > It's available with all our myExperiment slideware on http://wiki.myexperiment.org/index.php/Presentations where you'll also find the much talked-about presentation to the British Library on the future of research.
> >
> > All Carole's recent keynote talks are available in the pack http://www.myexperiment.org/packs/33
> >
> > -- Dave
> >
> > http://www.myexperiment.org/announcements/19
> >
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