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Written by silverwizard on 2025-01-26 at 20:03

Thinking about #BSDCan abstracts and falling into analysis paralysis, I've no idea what an abstract looks like for this con. How many words? Do you want the talk outline? The topic and that's it?

I dunno - AP is setting in - I want to give a good idea without accidentally writing the entire talk?

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Written by pamela :flan_butterfly: on 2025-01-26 at 20:37

@silverwizard they can be short! People imagine them like a journal abstract but for our purposes it's probably better to think more about what would help you choose which room to join if you had them taped on the wall to read. Who's it for? What's the background story or prior work? What are the 3-4 biggest points you're trying to hit during your presentation, and what goal do you hope to achieve? Things like that. You don't need more that two paragraphs. Many proposals are fine with just one.

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Written by Hypolite Petovan on 2025-01-26 at 20:42

@pamela Maybe @silverwizard should just try to describe the talk here and then take it as an abstract! 😁

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Written by silverwizard on 2025-01-26 at 20:58

@hypolite @pamela Ok so the talk abstract is basically

My goal with computer is to be as stupidly boring as possible, let's talk about how BSD enables that, and what I am currently doing.

The problem is that... that... I don't know. Giving more context is way too much, but it's also not much there.

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Written by Hypolite Petovan on 2025-01-26 at 21:05

@silverwizard Why way too much?

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Written by silverwizard on 2025-01-26 at 21:14

@hypolite basically - it's a lab oveerview with a specific thesis, and the lab is horrifyingly basic, and so describing is slow

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Written by Hypolite Petovan on 2025-01-26 at 21:26

@silverwizard How about you describe the thesis?

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Written by silverwizard on 2025-01-26 at 21:56

@hypolite Yeah, the thesis is basically, BSD lets me be boring, and, most importantly, inattentive

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