Re: TPAC Slides Update

Hi Matthew and Lisa,

I just finished reviewing the slides, and overall very well done! I have
one minor bit of feedback, and it's that I think you've sorta hidden the
actual "Thing" we are doing until slide 15, and specifically:

   - *We're aiming for the sweet spot, where a small addition of
   machine-readable semantics supports a wide range of helpful adaptations.*

Might I suggest that we move that critical bit of info closer to the start?
Perhaps slide 2 with, or part of, the bullet: "We've developed a
specification that will help content authors do this."

Revision:

"We've developed a specification that will help content authors do this, *where
a small addition of machine-readable semantic metadata supports a wide
range of helpful adaptations.*" (yes, leave it bolded, and note the
addition of the term metadata - a key concept I don't see anywhere else in
the slide deck...)

...taking a cue from the 90's pop band Roxette, who famously released a
greatest hits record titled "*Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus!*" - in
other words, let's tell attendees right up front what we're doing.

My $0.02 Canadian (which is kind of difficult, as Canada no longer has
1-cent coins...)

JF

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 5:08 PM Matthew Atkinson <matkinson@tpgi.com> wrote:

> Hello TF,
>
> Lisa and I took a couple of hours this morning to really improve the
> slides, and think they're in much better shape now. I also have extensive
> notes (currently in some of the slides as HTML comments) about emphasis I
> need to put on what COGA will need to know, and what we'll need to know
> from them, so I will be sure to address that as we go through. I still may
> cut out some slides—at the very least some will be moved to "appendix"
> sort-of material—but I don't think any more need to be added. (There are
> some placeholders for code samples I just couldn't get to this evening;
> will add those very soon.)
>
> PR URL: https://github.com/w3c/personalization-semantics/pull/199
> Preview URL:
> https://raw.githack.com/w3c/personalization-semantics/tpac-2021-talk/talks/2021/tpac/index.html
>
> We've made general changes to keep the focus on our core use-cases,
> pre-empt questions about i18n issues, clarify how we're aiming to solve
> problems and generally ensure that proper terminology is being used.
>
> Feedback welcome though hopefully we're pretty close now.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Matthew
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