[ale] meeting idea

[Charles Shapiro]

And of course we could always try a Pecha Kucha (
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/ ) It's sometimes tough to find people
who'll sign up for this though.


-- CHS


On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Cameron Kilgore
<ghostfreeman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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