[FOSS4G2016] [Program] Lightning Talks

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Hi Volker, @all,

because I recently received an email with this question - how do we 
proceed with Lightning Talks? I am not quite sure, but I think in the 
past years, it was possible to submit lightning talks via the normal cfp 
system.

To be honest: I am not a fan of this, because lightning talks are only 
a nice format, if the talker is really good and has understood, that a 
lightning talk is more than just a "short talk" on any topic. So my 
suggestion would be, that we create kind of text about lightning talk 
for the homepage (as we do for the general talks as well) and call for 
lightning talk submission via email directly to us 
(info at foss4g2016.org). Review and acceptance of lightnings could be 
made, when we fix the content of the "come together sessions".

An alternative would be to have a lightning talk session somewhere in 
the program, like the OSM guys normally do on FOSSGIS conferences - but 
there lightnings are really more a short talk and not a entertaining 
attunement to the conference, as I understand them. So that's not my 
favored solution...

Any ideas?

Till