[CREATE] Suggested dates for LGM 2009 Montreal

[Jon Phillips]

On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 14:15 +0530, Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Dave Neary <dneary at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >
> > 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.
> 
> I love this idea. And at least for me, anything more than 1/2 an hour
> is too long, unless it is a tutorial. You can certainly tell people
> the gist of what you are doing in 5 mins.

totally.

save the big spots for non-snoozers...


> 
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