<p>At some events, we give an opportunity to do lighting talks at the end of the event.</p><p>We're planning on doing an all lighting talks event for the Atlanta HTML5 User Group, but we want to give a wide berth for people to prepare the speeches. I put weeks of preparation into all of mine.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 23, 2012 12:27 PM, "Michael H. Warfield" <<a href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com" target="_blank">mhw@wittsend.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 11:45 -0500, leam hall wrote:<br>
> Or spread it out so they don't feel the competition and you can more<br>
> easily schedule things.<br>
<br>
Yeah, at several of my conference, these are referred to as lightening<br>
talks. Of course, at conferences, a large number are stacked into a<br>
designated period of time and spreading them out is not practical. They<br>
are also not scheduled in advance, people sign up for talks they want to<br>
give on a flip chart board at the conference and when all the 10 minute<br>
slots are gone, they're gone.<br>
<br>
For a regular user's group like us, the idea of spreading them out has<br>
some merit. Offer a 10 minute slot a head of the main speaker to people<br>
who want to come and do a fast talk on something short.<br>
<br>
Not sure how well blocking out a whole meeting to lightening talks would<br>
work.<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
<br>
> On 2/23/12, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > I had a brain storm (ok, a brief spring shower that left the gray matter<br>
> > under the trees still bone dry :).<br>
> ><br>
> > We should have a small group of local Linux-based products vendors give<br>
> > back to back pitch and QA session of 10 minutes each at a meeting once a<br>
> > year.<br>
> ><br>
> > This provides exposure on both sides and recruitment opportunities as well.<br>
> ><br>
> > --<br>
> > --<br>
> > James P. Kinney III<br>
> ><br>
> > As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to<br>
> > consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they<br>
> > please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.<br>
> > - *2011 Noam Chomsky<br>
> ><br>
> > <a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br>
> > *<br>
> ><br>
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