Showcase Prep

[alyoshenka]

~Canvas Assignment~

• [x] What day works best to meet with Steve and go over requirements?
• [x] Revisit list of "Important Issues" and try to pare them down a little
• [x] Make a list of things that we would really like to be able to demo
• [x] Get presentation feedback from Steve
• [ ] Reach out to Michelle and BC as well^?
• [x] Should we print out resumes?
  • nah
• [x] Do we have to register as presenters for the event as well?
• [x] Architecture diagram: keep it? How can it be made better?
• [ ] What tech can we plan on having provided for us? What do we need to bring?
• [ ] Take a bunch of videos and aim for as much redundancy as possible
  • [ ] Back up SD card
• [x] Arrange a time to do prep presentations
• [ ] Practice moving hardware devices
  • [x] Make sure Pi works on phone hotspot
    • No, but can actually connect to 5GHz wifi
• [x] find old architecture diagrams to show progress
• [ ] take more videos; compress
• [x] Display some fun metrics
  • ~[ ] How many lines of code did we write?~
  • [x] How many hours did we spend?
    • ~[ ] Daily average hours~
  • [x] How many issues did we complete? Total issues? How many left?
  • [x] How many times did we (almost) smash our keyboards into the wall?
  • [x] Hour spread? (Hours per repo as a percentage of total)
• [x] Do we want to "save" anything for the official presentation?
• [ ] How can we pitch our impact in a way that will be received well by the audience?
• [ ] Change presentation framework to look nicer?

[alyoshenka]

Alexi Really Wants to Demo

• Message input
• Message scheduling
• Additional board animations (I have a couple "rainbow fill" ones that look kinda neat)
• Messages with colors
• If I could get the stock ticker working...

[alyoshenka]

From Steve

Hey Alexi, So I mean, generally we all thought you both had a great demo and project. Mostly my feedback is about tuning it for this different audience: First Impressions It’s demonstrably “cool” It’s deceptively complex General Advice Tell a story for solving problems: full circle model: start with slide or demo, return to visual slide or demo (you absolutely did this; do it again) Keep it simple: easy outward look, deep technology Show positive growth: start at A, end at B, build yourselves up Make it real: live demo wins over recording What to Do Next Create a simplified deck covering Project framing: your introductions, interest areas, college and degree User story: tell the end-to-end story that you showed Technology: show the architecture Talk about Objectives briefly: what you wanted to do, impediments, how you overcame them Future: where does this go, how does it help each of you in your future work Clean up the dashboard UX Fonts, colors, CSS / SASS Use packages for this Practice Everything Run through it for timing Run through it for me (next week?) Total time for demo, presentation, and Qs will be 15 min, so I’d aim for 10-11ish of content between the two of you

[alyoshenka]

Notes from Steve from Practice Presentation

• [x] struggles = challenges
• [x] alexi needs to list struggles
• [x] tell people we'll dive into architecture
• [x] growth slides are good
• [x] file tree? nix it
• [x] have people do it for the demo
• [x] can tease, we'll see
• [x] don't need to explain name
• [x] mention this is an independent project + a little bit about school requirements