Congratulations on setting up these very useful notes on making presentations. I especially appreciated the links to some of my favourite models, such as Dick Hardt’s OSCON 2005 presentation and Carlos Ghosn’s rhetorical methods. (Also check out Lawrence Lessig’s OSCON 2002 lecture , whose message, by the way, is really important.

I have suffered on both sides of the presentation table in Malaysia. We are in dire need of the discipline you recommend. I wish you luck in reaching as many as possible with your message, and I hope you keep up the web efforts and draw others to share your project. Why not hold a presentation contest of some sort, or have people submit sanitised models, both negative and positive, to a repository that you can organize and make available online? Nothing like seeing examples of our own failings and successes.

John