[Catalyst] Anyone willing to demo Catalyst in Los Angeles?

[David Hodgkinson]

On 1 Feb 2006, at 22:39, Matt S Trout wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 02:20:15PM -0800, Todd Cranston-Cuebas wrote:
>> Aw common. LA isn't that bad ;) I like the idea of notes. If  
>> anybody has any
>> presentation notes/slides, I'd really appreciate it and I can run  
>> the basic
>> presentation myself or with the help of a frient. The goal really  
>> is to
>> introduce Catalyst to people who have never really seen it in action.
>
> http://shadowcatsystems.co.uk/static/london/catalyst.xul
>
> was what I presented last time, but you might be better off  
> stealing half
> a dozen slides from that for the end and running through one of the  
> tutorials
> or similar first - general reaction to my talk was that it was over- 
> technical
> and not newbie-friendly enough (at least for the audience I gave it  
> to).

Nuh-uh.

It wasn't about being overly technical, it was that the talk was about
what Catalyst is, rather than what it can do. The other talks  
demonstrated
how easy/smooth/pretty it is to do stuff with their toy.