Really enjoyed the lightning talks. Some benefits I see, -Wider variety of topics. Some topics may be difficult to stretch as a full presentation, but just about ANYTHING can be talked about for 5 minutes. -Wider variety of presenters. Some people may have difficulty putting together a long presentation or simply do not have the time to. Lightning talks require little to no preparation. It's also less daunting for an inexperienced presenter. This opens the doors to new presenters where they can build up experience.
I don't see an issue with 10 min. talks. Info from my presentation Code: https://github.com/despertargz/demo-tailrecursion Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ab6Z_ttUMwpobPgb1AZooco4w8TyoP2i0cmcvVDmI2Q/pub?start=true&loop=false&delayms=60000&slide=id.g4b6c40694_11 Best Regards, Christopher Mevissen On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Todd Rinaldo via Houston <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 1:15 PM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston > <[email protected]> wrote: > > For those people who came, did you like this format? > Yep. worked out good. Gives a something for everyone. Sometimes just > one talk isn't interesting to everyone. > > > For those people who presented, would you do it again? > > > Sure. > > > A request was made afterward to allow the talks to run to 10 minutes > > rather than being limited to 5. What do you think? > The hard cutoff is entertaining but given some of us probably had > limited time to prep, I think extending to 10 minutes might be a > better idea. 5 mins is way harder than 30 mins for me to prep a talk. > > Todd > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ >
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