2008/11/11 Anders Brander <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@brander.dk">anders@brander.dk</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
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On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 09:21 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:<br>
> >> I don't think that most people are there for the presentations, so I<br>
> >> don't think "packing out" the schedule is important. It's important in<br>
> >> conferences where attendees pay a lot of money to go, and need to<br>
> >> justify the expense to their bosses by pointing out all the great<br>
> >> content that's scheduled. We're not in that situation.<br>
> ><br>
> > Well. We shouldn't have lots of presentations, with the sole purpose of<br>
> > selling the idea to our bosses. But; I don't see why we should avoid<br>
> > people talking about their small and specialized projects. Some of the<br>
> > talks I enjoyed most at LGM2008 were some of the very specialized talks.<br>
><br>
> Lightning talks! This is exactly the format small specialised projects<br>
> need - you get 5 minutes (an eternity!) to present what your project is,<br>
> some of the cool stuff people do with it, and what you're interested in<br>
> getting at the conference (Users? Hackers? Features? Feedback?)<br>
><br>
> The additional advantage of lightning talks is that you can do say 2<br>
> hours of them, and have 25 presentations, thus keeping lots of those<br>
> small projects happy. A third advantage: if one comes along that few<br>
> people are interested in, it's like the commercial break, they'll stick<br>
> around & watch it anyway, because in 5 minutes there's another one coming.<br>
<br>
</div>I'm not so interested in keeping small projects happy, I'm more<br>
interested in keeping the listeners happy. As a listener I really<br>
appreciate the very specialized and technical presentations and<br>
discussions - besides the mainstream talks that most people enjoy.<br>
<br>
Well, maybe I'm weird ;-)</blockquote><div><br>We sure would like to welcome the Anders' team to Montreal. ;-)<br><br>I am sure there will be some specialised and technical presentations... and discussions, of course.<br>
<br>The schedule is not going to be set within its tiny details in the present discussion. It takes time and we're going to use it. For now, we need to secure the dates. That way, people can book their plane and we can move on with the sponsors.... Sponsors.... my next topic! :-)<br>
<br>Cheers!<br><br>Louis<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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/abrander<br>
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