{"id":799,"date":"2009-07-30T18:29:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T22:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=799"},"modified":"2010-04-27T17:16:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T21:16:26","slug":"se-for-the-planet-talk-now-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2009\/07\/se-for-the-planet-talk-now-online\/","title":{"rendered":"SE for the Planet talk now online"},"content":{"rendered":"

The recording of my Software Engineering for the Planet talk is now available online<\/a>. Having watched it, I’m not terribly happy with it – it’s too slow, too long, and I make a few technical mistakes. But hey, it’s there. For anyone already familiar with the climate science, I would recommend starting around 50:00 (slide 45) when I get to part 2 – what should we do?<\/p>\n

[Update: A shorter (7 minute) version of the talk is now available<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

The slides are also available as a pdf with my speaking notes (part 1<\/a> and part 2<\/a>), along with the talk that Spencer gave<\/a> in the original presentation at ICSE. I’d recommend these pdfs rather than the video of me droning on….<\/p>\n

Having given the talk three times now, I have some reflections on how I’d do it differently. First, I’d dramatically cut down the first part on the climate science, and spend longer on the second half – what software researchers and software engineers can do to help. I also need to handle skeptics in the audience better. There’s always one or two, and they ask questions based on typical skeptic talking points<\/a>. I’ve attempted each time to answer these questions patiently and honestly, but it slows me down and takes me off-track. I probably need to just hold such questions to the end.<\/p>\n

Mistakes? There are a few obvious ones:<\/p>\n