TMI: Practice Talk 2: Electric Boogaloo

I arrived in Portland yesterday and spent today working on my talk slides, then giving a practice talk at the New Relic office in downtown Portland. I don't think I'd ever been in that tall a building in Portland before (28th floor), and the audience exceeded my expectations both in size and attentiveness and quality of questions! Thanks to Tom Lee for, somehow, bringing in many interested people. I'm just hoping when I do a final run through the slides tomorrow I'll remember some of the questions and take them into account into adjusting the slides.

I had to skip over quite a few slides at the end to stay within the time limit, and while I probably won't get quite as many questions during the conference as I did during the practice talk, I suspect part of my time tomorrow is going to be spent tightening up the earlier part of the talk; I don't want to run out of time and have to skip pointers altogether!

Tomorrow, some combination of attending Open Source Bridge talks and finishing my talk (as is the day-before-talk conference tradition in general, I think), probably while taking advantage of the hacker lounge there.