[baylisa] Google Ops Presentation and Meeting Formats

Fri Jan 27 10:41:11 PST 2006

    I also had to bug out at 10 PM, about half-way through the Google 
presentation -- which I found fascinating. 

    The first presentation had about 5 minutes of interesting 
information -- which was on the last slide.  The remainder of the 
presentation was a sales pitch, which is lost on techies, who usually do 
not have actual purchasing authority.  We want neat technical hacks, not 
reasons to spend money.

Sam'l B.

David Alban wrote:

>Yes!  I'm glad my inside voice didn't make it "outside" last night.
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>Perhaps, for those folks who might perceive this as a limitation on
>creativity/speech/etc., a compromise, voluntarily self-imposed by
>willing individuals, might be:  everyone limit yourself to one,
>simple, easy-to-communicate, non-compound question without follow-ups,
>before the presentation is over, then go nuts.
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>On 1/27/06, Danny Howard <dannyman at toldme.com> wrote:
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>>while I found the presentation
>>engaging, I had this growing desire to jump up on the desk and yell at
>>everyone to just shut up for half an hour and let the guy present ...
>>but that would have been overly stereotypical SysAdmin behaviour, which
>>would have defeated the point.  And while I would have phrased my
>>suggestion that everyone shut up politely, I didn't want to be the
>>guy-who-never-shows-up-then-proposes-that-BayLISA-change-its-format-halfway-through-the-presentation.
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