How to Host an Instructables Show and Tell

Step 5 Sign up to present, and the theory of the evening

Find a giant whiteboard or large piece of paper, and encourage people to sign up to present their projects. Don't worry if you only have a few people signed up by the time the presenting starts. Once the momentum of the evening starts, and people see how things are working, they'll jump in.

I'm pretty sure we got the "self-organizing" format of the Show and Tell from O'Reilly's FooCamp. However, considering that only half of the people that show up will have RSVP'ed telling you what they're going to show, and half of the attendees won't sign up to present until the presentations are actually underway, this seems the only logical way to do it.

Also, have people put on name tags, and sign an attendance list with their emails so they'll know about the next one. We've swapped back and forth between signing in on a computer or paper. Paper is a lot easier, but some portion of the handwriting will be illegible.