Speaker's Tips and Tricks

From MtlPy Wiki

Giving a good presentation is mostly about find an interesting subject and talking about in with passion. Some tools and tricks can help presenters to pass their message around.

If your a scheduled to speak at a Montréal-Python event see also instructions for speakers.

[edit] Emacs

If you use Emacs for your development, it makes sense to also use it to show code. If you do, you will certainly want to increase the font size; you can do so with shift-right-click in then buffer then "Increase buffer text size". If you prefer to use CTRL+ and CTRL- like you would in your favorite Web browser, add the following to your .emacs:

 (global-set-key [(control +)] 'text-scale-increase)
 (global-set-key [(control =)] 'text-scale-increase)
 (global-set-key [(control -)] 'text-scale-decrease)

It also helps to have a good antialiased font that displays well at large size. Inconsolate is one such font and you can install it on Ubuntu with apt-get:

 sudo apt-get install -y ttf-inconsolata

You then have to tell Emacs to use it by putting the following in you .emacs:

 (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "Inconsolata")

[edit] Latex

If you want to create slides with latex, latex-beamer is worth having a look. Look at this post for a full example.