On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...] > > Lightning talks! This is exactly the format small specialised projects > need - you get 5 minutes (an eternity!) to present what your project is, > some of the cool stuff people do with it, and what you're interested in > getting at the conference (Users? Hackers? Features? Feedback?) > > The additional advantage of lightning talks is that you can do say 2 > hours of them, and have 25 presentations, thus keeping lots of those > small projects happy. A third advantage: if one comes along that few > people are interested in, it's like the commercial break, they'll stick > around & watch it anyway, because in 5 minutes there's another one coming. I love this idea. And at least for me, anything more than 1/2 an hour is too long, unless it is a tutorial. You can certainly tell people the gist of what you are doing in 5 mins. -- Kaveh Bazargan, River Valley Technologies www.river-valley.com www.river-valley.tv www.bazargan.org _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
