so, here it is: The video of my 3-minute Elevator Pitch at FOTB09, courtesy of Peter Elst, my SQLitewrapper "partner-in-crime":

Elevator pitch - SQLite goes heavyweight from Peter Elst on Vimeo.

Thank you for filming this Peter!

Apart from the fact that the top and bottom edges were chopped off my slides, all went smoothly.

Our first rehearsal on Sunday wasn't quite so smooth. Bear in mind that this session involved 20 speakers, all with their own laptops, and add in audio and microphone-swapping and you're faced with a real logistics challenge. We found that nearly every laptop (some windows, some macs) needed adjustments to match the resolution to that of the lovely 16:9 projector on the stage in the Brighton Dome. Mine didn't want to talk to the projector at all at first, until about 20 minutes' worth of power had been pumped into it.

Monday evening's rehearsal was another story: an initial logistics talk-through and then we worked through all of the presentations, including microphone-swaps and all. Around 5-10 minutes longer than the session needed to be, this set us up for Tuesday.

08:45 on Tuesday and we were all ready, lined up on our 20 chairs behind stage and ready to go...

The rest is history, as they say

Thanks again to John Davey (@FOTB ) for the opportunity and to the audience for their support, despite tearing themselves away from their beds after Monday's party