From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2008-06-20T01:09:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Presentation on Ruby, require suggestions

Srijayanth Sridhar wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My company has a policy which requires that at least one person
> present a topic every week. The topic is unspecified and can range
> from anything to salmon fishing in Newfoundland to The Beatles' LSD
> experience. I want to present Ruby. While a large section of the
> audience consists of developers, the audience will also consist of non
> technical people from depts such as HR, Accounting etc. I have to gear
> my presentation so as to not alienate any single group and make it
> interesting all the same.
> 
> Can you guys provide suggestions? As of now this is what I have. It is
> meant to be an hour's worth of presentation. I figured I'll have 10
> slides, 6 minutes on each slide along with code snippets. I also have
> written solutions for several problems that some of the people in
> accounting/hr face. The purpose of my demonstration is to prove that
> Ruby, even for non programmers, can be used to solve small scale
> problems in their lives.


I held an introductory presentation about Ruby a few month ago, which 
you can find here:

http://www.ntecs.de/blog/articles/2008/02/09/ruby-the-way-back-to-productivity

And another one I gave 2003 is here:

http://www.ntecs.de/blog/articles/2003/05/25/ruby-talk-at-gpn2

Regards,

   Michael