[ale] meeting idea

[Cameron Kilgore]

At some events, we give an opportunity to do lighting talks at the end of
the event.

We're planning on doing an all lighting talks event for the Atlanta HTML5
User Group, but we want to give a wide berth for people to prepare the
speeches. I put weeks of preparation into all of mine.
On Feb 23, 2012 12:27 PM, "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 11:45 -0500, leam hall wrote:
> > Or spread it out so they don't feel the competition and you can more
> > easily schedule things.
>
> Yeah, at several of my conference, these are referred to as lightening
> talks.  Of course, at conferences, a large number are stacked into a
> designated period of time and spreading them out is not practical.  They
> are also not scheduled in advance, people sign up for talks they want to
> give on a flip chart board at the conference and when all the 10 minute
> slots are gone, they're gone.
>
> For a regular user's group like us, the idea of spreading them out has
> some merit.  Offer a 10 minute slot a head of the main speaker to people
> who want to come and do a fast talk on something short.
>
> Not sure how well blocking out a whole meeting to lightening talks would
> work.
>
> Mike
>
> > On 2/23/12, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I had a brain storm (ok, a brief spring shower that left the gray
> matter
> > > under the trees still bone dry :).
> > >
> > > We should have a small group of local Linux-based products vendors give
> > > back to back pitch and QA session of 10 minutes each at a meeting once
> a
> > > year.
> > >
> > > This provides exposure on both sides and recruitment opportunities as
> well.
> > >
> > > --
> > > --
> > > James P. Kinney III
> > >
> > > As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
> > > consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
> they
> > > please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
> > > - *2011 Noam Chomsky
> > >
> > > http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
> > > *
> > >
> >
> >
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