Lightning intros

[davidmason]

Could we have some lightning talks for presenters on the Friday night, as a way to give everyone an easy way to get an overview of all the talks and workshops? Each talk would be a quick blurb about what the talk is about, who it is aimed at, and how much fun it will be.

• allow ~60-90 seconds per talk/workshop, up to 120 seconds for a talk+workshop combo
  • that should keep it within about 30 mins
• speakers submit 1-2 slides when submitting their summaries etc. (i.e. before the camp), this could be in the form of a pull request to a reveal.js html file.

The talks could be run just before or after the schedule is released, so that everyone can decide what to attend while they watch or while everything is fresh in their mind.

[timoxley]

That was part of the idea of the "what I'm working on", but we should definitely extend it to talk intros. Maybe even each evening after/during dinner, the presenters for the next day get up and pitch.

[davidmason]

If we could video these and get them playing on a loop somewhere off to the side, people could wander over at any time and catch up on what is happening. Items could be added to and removed from the loop throughout the weekend. That would also give us some nice material by the end to edit together and show what was on over the weekend.

I don't have the equipment for that at the moment, but I'll start looking into it and see what I can sort out.

[garrows]

Maybe card holders at the end of each table instead of the notice board.
Shy people and people not good with names/faces would probably find it hard
to find people. Plus shy people can write on a card easier than do a
lightning talk.
On Jun 9, 2014 11:23 AM, "David Mason" notifications@github.com wrote:

If we could video these and get them playing on a loop somewhere off to
the side, people could wander over at any time and catch up on what is
happening. Items could be added to and removed from the loop throughout the
weekend. That would also give us some nice material by the end to edit
together and show what was on over the weekend.

I don't have the equipment for that at the moment, but I'll start looking
into it and see what I can sort out.

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[davidmason]

@garrows keep in mind that the main concept is to use lightning intros to introduce the main talks and workshops, and I think we can safely assume that those people will be ok with doing a quick presentation. Video would obviously be opt-in both for playing at the camp, and separately for use after the camp. Video might also be very handy for helping people figure out who to look for if they are interested in the presentation topics.

I think making it easier for shy people to collaborate and get involved is a separate issue, and a valuable one to consider, so I have added that as issue 40.