On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Steve Howell <[email protected]> wrote: > No worries. A good lightning talk should be educational, informative, and > entertaining at a bare minimum. Any code should run without error on 1.5 and > 3.2. It helps if you speak in a deep voice like James Earl Jones (if you are > male). There should me an element of catharsis. Avoid passive voice. The > good guys should prevail at the end. Allusions to a certain comedy troupe > from England are pretty much mandatory. A lot to cram into five minutes. No > pressure.
For those new to lightning talks, the second sentence is the important one, and change the "and" to "and/or". Some talks are just informative or just entertaining. Talk about your Python project, especially if there's something the audience can download or use or collaborate on. Announce a Python event or just tell what your company is doing wi th Python. Or tell a funny joke or run a funny demo. In the past we've demo'd the Marklar web proxy and the world's smallest agenda topic generator (a list, and ``random.choice``). Anything that is plausably related to Python is OK. And make it five minutes or less. For the audience, the motto is, "Don't worry if it's boring, it'll be over in five minutes." -- Mike Orr <[email protected]>
