[Inpycon] Some thoughts on talks and what not to do in a tech talk

[Noufal Ibrahim]

On Tue, Sep 28 2010, स्वक्ष wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 14:35, Pranav Prakash <pranny at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Usually, most speakers allot the last five (or more) minutes for the
> Q&A session so the speaker should not be interrupted during his/her
> talk. Next year, all speakers should be asked to allot the last few
> minutes for Q&A session and also mention this at the beginning of
> their talk (maybe in the slides they prepared for the talk). Despite
> this, occasional gaffes may occur inadvertently, in which case, the
> hall marshalls should politely ask the audience member to wait for the
> question and answer session.

It's also a speaker skill to identify hecklers and to tell them that q/a
will be at the end if time permits rather than actually taking the time
to answer them but your point is valid.

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