As someone who likes to tinker with my presentations until shortly before I give it, I struggle quite badly with events where I can't use my own computer, or at least use a hosted version of my presentation, when I present.
(I appreciate why an organiser might want to have all the slides stored locally, ahead of time. I get it. I just don't like it!)
@neil So extremely true! I also always get nervous about doing this, because I design my slides with multimedia (sound, video, etc) in mind. What if my cool stuff doesn't work on their machine? What if they ask for a boring old PDF? I could write the talk without it, but it's a lot less fun…
@neil @skylar at the events where we ask for slides in advance, its just in case the presenters machine breaks, is allergic to the projector etc. 99% of the time tweaking at the last minute is OK at #maccSciBar ;-)
@falken @skylar
I absolutely can do "here's a tarball containing my presentation; it works fine in Firefox, so please have that installed", so it is not the end of the world, but it is irritating.