[FOSS4G2016] [Program] Lightning Talks

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Volker,

I favor the existing info-adress -- too much emailadresses and nobody 
quiet gets it any more ;-)

Looking at the times we have, there is not too much room for lightnings 
anyhow. Are you at least reachable via IRC on friday/saturday, when we 
do our working weekend here? We can discuss this more deep then.

Till

Am 2016-01-12 16:21, schrieb Volker Mische:
> Hi Till,
>
> On 01/12/2016 04:12 PM, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
>> 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".
>
> I fully agree. That sounds like a good plan. Perhaps with yet another
> email address (lightning at foss4g2016.org), so that someone can easily
> take it over if needed?
>
> Cheers,
>   Volker