[CREATE] Suggested dates for LGM 2009 Montreal

[Dave Neary]

Hi,

Anders Brander wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 13:18 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
>> I don't think that most people are there for the presentations, so I
>> don't think "packing out" the schedule is important. It's important in
>> conferences where attendees pay a lot of money to go, and need to
>> justify the expense to their bosses by pointing out all the great
>> content that's scheduled. We're not in that situation.
> 
> Well. We shouldn't have lots of presentations, with the sole purpose of
> selling the idea to our bosses. But; I don't see why we should avoid
> people talking about their small and specialized projects. Some of the
> talks I enjoyed most at LGM2008 were some of the very specialized talks.

Lightning talks! This is exactly the format small specialised projects
need - you get 5 minutes (an eternity!) to present what your project is,
some of the cool stuff people do with it, and what you're interested in
getting at the conference (Users? Hackers? Features? Feedback?)

The additional advantage of lightning talks is that you can do say 2
hours of them, and have 25 presentations, thus keeping lots of those
small projects happy. A third advantage: if one comes along that few
people are interested in, it's like the commercial break, they'll stick
around & watch it anyway, because in 5 minutes there's another one coming.

Cheers,
Dave.

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