Lighting talk

[Ahik Man]

Hi (again),

There is a suggestion to have a "lighting talk" session in our coming (busy) meeting. 

The idea is to provide an opportunity to everybody to present a relevant subject to the audience.

What is lighting talk? Form Wikipedia :

"A Lightning Talk is a short presentation given at a conference or similar forum. Unlike other presentations, lightning talks last only a few minutes and several will usually be delivered in a single period by different speakers."

So if you are interesting to give an about 5 minutes Lighting talk, please send me an email that include subject of the talk and short description. 

The Lighting Talk session in the depends on the suggestions and demands.

Ahik

[Tal Einat]

Ahik Man wrote:

There is a suggestion to have a "lighting talk" session in our coming (busy) meeting. 

The idea is to provide an opportunity to everybody to present a relevant subject to the audience.

So if you are interesting to give an about 5 minutes Lighting talk, please send me an email that include subject of the talk and short description. 

The Lighting Talk session in the depends on the suggestions and demands.

I would love to hear short bits about debugging Django (either in GAE or not), sounds like a good subject for lightning talks since someone can tell about a bug he had and how he traced it down or one can describe a certain debugging tool/method. Or perhaps that's better suited to be a subject for a future meeting?

I'd also love to hear about how people are handling persistent data which can't easily be modeled to fit in a normal relational database, e.g. complex Python objects. But again perhaps this is a subject for more than 5 minutes...

If there's interest, I could show a few nice bits about the Django DB API, a few examples showing how to write nice, clear, efficient queries, since I've been doing that quite a bit lately, and it's really wonderful :)

- Tal

[Ahik Man]

Hi Tal, All,

Your suggestion for lighting talk about DB API examples, seems very interesting. 

Django debugging worth more time the 5 mins.

Ahik

[Sivan Green]

Hi all,

 In view of the suggestion to have a lightning talk, and in the light that django documentation seems a bit sparse and a bit overwhelming to the uninitiated, I would like to suggest that we devote some of the lightning talk time to randomly talk about inherent Django principles, to ease understanding of the further lectures.

How does that sound?

Sivan

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Best Regards,
Sivan Green

[Tal Einat]

"Sparse" greatly surprises me... I certainly wouldn't call it that. Perhaps a short session about using the Django documentation is in order.

Sivan's suggestion sounds good to me.

[Ahik Man]

Sivan,

The lighting talk is for people who like to present something relevant in 5 minutes. It is not intended for discussions. (only one question if there is a time).
Hence, unless someone would like to make a 'Django principles in 5 min' presentation, it seems that it is more suitable for the general discussion part (last slot in the agenda). Note that some of the 'long' presentations will touch this issues.

Ahik

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Sivan Green <siv...@gmail.com> wrote: