Haiku to be Presented at Numerica

I've always wished the Demoscene came to the BeOS platform...
I hope Haiku will bring coders and make it the most groovy OS, like in the ol' Amiga days ;) !

That was a really nice presentation of BeOS/Haiku! I know it's daunting to speak in public, even more so when it's not in your native language. I think François did a great job though! Kudos!

One thing that IMO often falls a bit short in presentations is the demo part. It often appears to be an impromptu affair. Maybe we can all contribute to a list of things that are worth showing and have the potential to awe the crowd.
[Let me point out that this isn't to critizise François, but to improve any demonstration.]

Let's start with

Queries

• One important thing is to prepare the demo machine with adequate data to show the strength of our query system. When showing indexed attributes it's essential to have eg. MP3s, People or Email etc. files.
• Make sure you know your files so you're able to search strings in attributes that actually exist.
• Load up the machine with a large number of files. Instant search results are more impressive when they result in a large list.
• Start with a query that returns a large list of files and continue to narrow down the search by adding different criteria. For example: search MP3s of a specific genre and then narrow down by bitrate, year, artist etc.
• Avoid a query by formula, as that tends to confuse the average user when he's not yet familiar with the system.
• Show that queries can be saved and are live by reopening a saved query, navigating in another Tracker window to a file's folder (double click on "Path" in the query result window) and doublicating a file a few times, rename them and eventually delete them while watching the result window.
• Rehearse the demo a few times to work out the kinks and optimize your setup (eg. create a query templete for the filetype you'll use and decide which attributes to show).

Actually,

KISS means Keep it Simple, Stupid!

:)