Conference in Cloud and online meeting technology

[Timm Murray]

One little thing I found: you don't know if your jokes are landing. If
everyone else is doing it right, they'll be on mute, so you don't get
audible feedback on anything.  You might have dropped a cringe-bomb and
wouldn't know it.

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 6:58 AM James E Keenan via yapc <yapc at pm.org> wrote:

> Third of three posts:
>
> If you're like me, at this point in the pandemic you're reaching your
> breaking point with online meetings and online meetings technology.
> Alas, that's what we're stuck with for the Conference in the Cloud
> (https://perlconference.us/tpc-2020-cloud/).
>
> By now, some of us have experienced the joys and sorrows of *presenting*
> in online meetings.  I'd like to encourage some discussion of those
> experiences so that we can have a less painful experience during CiC
> next month.
>
> Specifically, I want to talk about slides.
>
> On #yapc, Todd has already mentioned that if you're presenting over Zoom
> and you're sharing slides from your laptop screen, the refresh rate of
> those slides is much slower than what you would normally desire.  Hence,
> you are advised to have fewer transitions among (or within) slides than
> you would if you were plugging your laptop into a conference-quality
> data projector.
>
> Can other people confirm that that is good advice?  (I suspect this is
> not limited to Zoom.)
>
> Also, slide layout and typography:  What have people found works best
> over Zoom?  My impression so far is that I can get away with my normal
> fonts in my slides -- but that if I go share my terminal, the font, font
> size and background color need to be chosen more carefully than usual.
>
> What have people learned with respect to sharing your screen, both in
> slides and in terminal?
>
> Thank you very much.
> Jim Keenan
>
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