Awesome Nick. Is there a recording or something for it?
Hadrian
On 02/04/2015 06:10 PM, Nick Burch wrote:
On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
For example, I would love to have some kind of an event at the
ApacheCON that would encourage as many folks as possible to learn
about various ASF projects. I have some ideas around running a kind
of lighting talks/reading group where each participant is randomly
given an ASF project and is required to present on it in 5 minutes or
something.
Or you could go crazy, aim for sharing information on an even greater
number of projects, pick ~40, give them all to one person, and get
them to do a 40 minute talk with a minute on each one!
I actually did two such talks in Budapest, one for content related
projects:
http://apacheconeu2014.sched.org/event/2236d3a762fd00df45922ca084ec326a
and one for big data related ones:
http://apacheconeu2014.sched.org/event/30981664d3aba98f8a84a16136602ceb
They're a non-trivial amount of work to put together, and you probably
won't fill a room, but they almost always get great feedback from
those who attend. One memorable comment was someone from a project I
covered saying I'd done a better elevator pitch for their project than
they'd ever managed :)
So, based on those experiences, I'd very much encourage people to
propose and give many-project overview talks like those, and even
better come up with ideas like this to help spread the load of
delivering them. They do work, they are popular, and we need more!
Nick
