Speaker guidelines

Thank you for speaking at the Los Angeles R User Group!

Preparation:

In order to prepare the meetup and advertisements, please provide:

• Your name as you would like it to appear on advertisements
• The title of your talk
• A short description of your talk
• Your twitter username (optional)
• Your website (optional)

During the talk

• Please limit your time to 20-25 minutes and a few minutes for questions (unless otherwise discussed with the organizers)
• We have basic adapters for our HDMI projector, but please let us know if you need other support or need to use our local computer to host slides
• Please try to use a microphone when speaking to respect participants with hearing issues

Uploading talk materials

• Please provide materials from your talk, such as slides. You may email us (larusers[at] gmail [dot] com) or open a pull request at laRusers/presentations.

Additional details:

• If you are looking for resources on how to give good tech talks, we recommend Notes on preparing a tech talk by Emily Riederer, particularly if you are newer to speaking.
• We are happy to give feedback on slides or content. Just let us know!