On 17 October 2010 10:44, Chris Lyon <[email protected]> wrote:
> I could make it there for 7:30 ( I'm coming from Chester and might well > have a bike!) if that's not to much of a problem or imposition. I'd prefer > to do a longer talk as there is a fair bit of context. I'll aim for half an > hour, such that if people are interested we get 15 mins of discussion and if > it's boring they don't have to put up with too much of it. > > A longer talk would work really well to complement the two lightning talks slated by myself and David J. I'm more happy to accommodate starting talks a 7:30pm. I'd imagine the first half hour will be dedicated to general Pythonic chat and getting the projector to behave. > On 28/09/10 14:58, Safe Hammad wrote: > >> On 27 September 2010 16:57, Chris Lyon <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Well I'll see what I can put together. How long do you like things >> to be? >> >> There's no hard and fast rule but in keeping with other groups / >> conferences, talks often fall into one of two groups: >> >> - Lightning talk: hard limited to 5 minutes each, the idea being that we >> get through many talks at a shallow level to give people the flavour of >> a topic, but generally not enough time to get into the nitty gritty or >> to open up for discussion / questions. >> >> - Full talk: depends on the talk itself, the number of talks and time >> available, but 45 mins might be a sensible average plus time for >> discussion / questions. >> >> So far we have 2 lightning talks and 0 full talks signed up. The choice >> is yours! >> >> p.s. What time do your meetings start? I'm abit like the Boomtown >> rats and don't like Mondays but other than that most days are ok >> with a bit of notice. >> >> >> Meetings so far have in theory started at 6pm though people will roll in >> later than that, particularly those coming from further afield. Unless >> there are any further advances, the talks themselves could start at >> 7pm. Looks like we won't be meeting on Mondays but will send a separate >> mail once confirmed with the venue. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Safe >> > -- To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west
