[Chennaipy] Talks for the Next Meet

[James Mortensen]

Hey Shrayas,

The biggest bottleneck to getting people to speak is shyness and/or
introversion.  I think it's safe to say that many people in tech are
naturally more introverted than extroverted. Introverts can be people
oriented and social, but it's not their natural state.

Making the lightning talks 20 minutes instead of 10 might make the idea of
giving a talk scarier to some people, so maybe we can have some flexibility
there for first time speakers.

Also, I think another idea that could help is if we could get a group to
help people prepare for their speeches.  In my public speaking class in
college, the instructor suggested we practice in the same place where we'd
be giving the speech, so maybe IMSc would let a group come in on the 3rd
Saturday to practice in front of a small group of people.

Another idea is to do group presentations.  We have people who I suspect
would be more comfortable if they were up on stage with another person and
not just themselves.

Hope this helps!

James
Phone: * 866-707-4590*


On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 6:34 AM, Vijay Kumar <vijaykumar at bravegnu.org>
> wrote:
> > The next meetup is on 25th July, the 4th Saturday of this month. The
> > meetup will consist of short 20 min talks. If you are interested in
> > doing a talk at the meetup, please send in a talk title and short
> > description.
>
> I genuinely think more new people should present talks. Our meetup is
> going at a steady pace with a large bunch of people who come everytime
> and it would be lovely to hear them talk.
>
> If there is anything that is holding anyone back from giving a talk,
> let us have a discussion about it, on the mailing list or even
> offline. I, personally would love to help anyone that I can to give
> their first talk.
>
> Remember, the greatest of orators the world has seen were once
> hesitant too. But once they got over that emotion, they were able to
> give the world so many things to remember them by.
>
> Cheers,
> Shrayas
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