On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 14:15 +0530, Kaveh Bazargan wrote: > 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.
totally. save the big spots for non-snoozers... > -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA + Guangzhou + Beijing GLOBAL +1.415.830.3884 CHINA +86.1.360.282.8624 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org IM/skype: kidproto Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
