We encourage anyone interested in presenting at DOSUG to send a proposal our way. We also like to maintain a list of our favorite presenting-improvement resources in the form of the lists below.
Social Networking Resources
1) LinkedIn and FaceBook Group
Consider joining our Linkedin Group
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=59016&trk=anet_ug_hm
or Facebook Group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11881581006&ref=search&sid=6585117...
for more networking opportunities.
Del.icio.us Bookmarks
Many of us at DOSUG bookmark a lot of interesting open source related projects. You might want to add our usernames to your "network" on Delicious.com
http://delicious.com/matthew.mcculllough
http://delicious.com/tlberglund
http://delicious.com/scryan7371
http://delicious.com/brucesnyder
http://delicious.com/emwendelin
RSS Feeds
Scott Ryan and Matthew McCullough extensively share items onto an RSS feed, filtered off dozens of Open Source feeds. You can see our Google Feeds in the margins (sidebar) of our Blogs, linked below or link directly to the shared feeds here:
Matthew McCullough's shared Google Reader Feed
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/10670781028191995952
Blogs
You might also want to consider adding our blogs, as well as those of other open source advocates to Google Reader as your RSS browser (http://www.google.com/reader/)
Matthew McCullough, Ambient Ideas' Denver Dev Blog
http://ambientideas.com/blog/
Tim Berglund's Development Blog
http://www.augusttechgroup.com/tim/blog/
Scott Ryan's Development Blog
http://scottryansblog.blogspot.com/
Presenter Resources
We'll be providing more helpful presenter links here on an ongoing basis, so check back regularly.
RSS Feeds
As Scott and I talked about last night, we both pervasively share items onto an RSS feed, filtered off dozens of Open Source feeds. You can see our Google Feeds in the margins (sidebar) of our Blog Homepages. You might also want to consider adding our blogs, as well as those of other open source advocates to Google Reader as your RSS browser (http://www.google.com/reader/)
Presenting Techniques
Here are a couple of great presenting resources to get you started with your slides.:
http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2007/09/steve-bill-redu.html
http://delicious.com/matthew.mccullough/presenting
http://delicious.com/matthew.mccullough/speaking
http://www.presentationpatterns.com
Presenting Images
http://www.morguefile.com/
http://www.istockphoto.com/
http://delicious.com/matthew.mccullough/stockphotography
http://ambientideasphotography.com
National Open Source Conferences & Events
Below is a list of national events around Open Source that we're happy to help promote:
-No Fluff Just Stuff Tour
http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/
-JavaZone
http://java.no/
-Oredev
http://oredev.org/