On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:17 PM, James Broadhead wrote: > On 19 March 2012 12:43, Nicholas H.Tollervey <nt...@ntoll.org> wrote: >> >> Last week the London Python Code Dojo cat-herders were discussing the >> possibility of making the lightning talks a permanent feature with the >> following considerations: >> >> * Talks *strictly* limited to 5mins with an additional 2mins for >> questions. >> * No more than 3 lightning talks per dojo. >> * At least one of the talks to be titled "Module of the Month" where >> someone gives us the skinny on a core module or well known / useful >> external module. >> * Lightning talks to be recorded and posted on a ldbpydojo YouTube >> channel and aggregated via http://pyvideo.org/. >> >> We'd want to post the videos under a CC like license (c) whoever the >> speaker is. Within only a few months we'd have quite a number of >> short, useful videos on Python given by a diverse number of dojo members. >> >> We'd like to know if this idea is a go-er..? > > Definitely a good idea - provided that there's an obvious timer > available to the presenter.
+1 > Perhaps a "no interactive demos" rule would be good, as these always > take more time than you'd imagine. > > For weeks with fewer than 3 talks, it might be nice to show videos > from other events in that time slot(or from other Dojos etc.). > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk ---- Rami Chowdhury "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade - it makes the hand bleed that uses it." -- Rabindranath Tagore +44-7581-430-517 _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
