After Dark - Lightning Talks

[Corey Haines]

I'd love to see about an hour or hour and a half slot put aside for
lightning talks.

I'd be willing to manage the signups, host, etc.

-Corey

[Barry Hawkins]

+1 on lightning talks, I've been especially fond of them as an evening thing or right after the main track wraps up for the day.

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[Corey Haines]

Yeah, I prefer them after the talks, rather than in their own timeslot.

[Matt Casto]

+1 great idea

< Matt

[BJ Allmon]

For those interested, I'd be interested in sharing about a non-profit learning initiative I've started called "Experience Foundation". It gets people who are brand new to software development and want to learn an opportunity to work on "cause-oriented" open source projects. I am leading a group of 7 people currently in Delaware Ohio. It gives them reference-able experience for their resume.

Best,

bj allmon

[Kevin Fonner]

+1 on Lightning Talks

[Jon Kruger]

Awesome idea!  +1

[Chris Adamson]

+1 on lightning talks. The more left-field, the better.

[MaggiePlusPlus]

+1 I was going to suggest this. I liked the Lightening Talks concept
from SCNA 2010. I don't think I'd want to sit for 1 hour for 1 talk
after a whole day of them - an hour with several short talks would be
better and would be less formal.

[Corey Haines]

My suggestion (based on previous experiences with lightning talks at
conferences) is to have at least an hour of 5-minute talks. With the
number of people at the conference, I bet we could fill 1.5 hours.

Will we have access to all the conference rooms during the after
hours? If so, then we could do a longer lightning talk session and not
disturb other people's after hours sessions.

-Corey

[Corey Haines]

For people who might not have been to lightning talks, here is the
video of the lightning talks from RubyConf this year.
http://confreaks.net/videos/741-rubyconf2011-lightning-talks?player=html5

Lots of diverse topics. Also, me. :)

-Corey

[Patrick Sullivan]

Corey, great idea. Every year I've attended codemash, a number of us
hang around after the sessions to pair program on the overheads in the
open meeting rooms. People come and go, but it's a great way to share
skill and ideas. Maybe blend fishbowl style pairing sessions in there
as well [perhaps in an adjacent space] as the lightning talks? Too
adventurous?

:patrick

On Oct 14, 11:16 am, Corey Haines <coreyhai...@gmail.com> wrote:

[-jn-]

We typically do two nights of lightning talks at each Java Posse
Roundup, and they always go over well. This year we had "on deck"
chairs on each side of the projector, so that as each speaker got up,
the next speaker was already there and the 2nd next speaker moved into
the vacated on-deck spot. This allowed us to compress the time loss
between speakers to a minimum, which really contributed to the pace
(and fun) of the entire evening.

-jn-

[Corey Haines]

Good idea.
At RubyConf, we had the effect of an on-deck (announced who the next
few were). worked fairly well.
At GoGaRuCo, there definitely was an on-deck line. worked very well.
I don't remember exactly which conference this was, but they had a
splitter, so the on-deck person hooked up while the previous person
was giving their talk. Worked fantastically.

Thanks.
-Corey