[CREATE] Suggested dates for LGM 2009 Montreal

[Kaveh Bazargan]

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.

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Kaveh Bazargan,  River Valley Technologies
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