So it's confirmed, I will be presenting Sugar this Saturday at Montréal Free Hacker's Union (see the announce here).

I'm still hesitating on the approach I will use for the presentation: so far I've advertised Sugar as a replacement to JavaScript for front-end web development (which is where it's most useful), but its actual goal is a bit different (Sugar is meant to be a practical meta-programming language). As a result, the presentation draft focuses as much on the conceptual background of Sugar as on its syntax and usage.

My intuition is that it's more interesting to do a presentation on things that people won't find in the Sugar source code, like its inception and design. The presentation being followed by a workshop, I have plenty of time to present Sugar in practice.

However, I know we're in North America here and that people would normally expect a "hands-on tutorial" rather than a theoretical overview followed by practical examples (which is more a French/European way of presenting). So this will be an experiment... I'll let you know how this went ;)