[FOSS4G2016] [Program] Lightning Talks

[Christian Willmes]

Hi all,

LT's are from my point of view a platform for short talks, from 
underdogs, that got not accepted with a full talk, or for things that 
are just emerged very recently before the conference.
The fun thing of this format is, that anybody can hand in a Talk on very 
short notice. This short notice can be some (few) days before the 
conference, but on the CCC Congress for example [1][2], you can just 
come up to the stage with a PDF of your presentation and you can shout 
out your news.
The main constraint is the time for the talk, you have 5 min. sharp. The 
session chair has to cut the microphone then and hand over to the next 
LT presenter.
Further constraint is, that this format should not contain sales pitches 
for a product. The session chair has to take care of interrupting the 
presenter if this is the case.

Further, this LT format should not have a prime spot in the program 
rooster.
An afternoon parallel session block is fine. Mostly people who don't 
know what to attend instead or just want to get random ideas attend this 
LT's as audience.

I would really like to see this kind of LT's too, its very inspiring and 
gives a stage to the underdogs.

Cheers,
Christian

[1] https://events.ccc.de/2015/12/20/32c3-lightning-talks/
[2] https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7559-lightning_talks_day_3

On 12.01.2016 16:43, Christian Mayer wrote:
> Hi Till, hi Volker, hi all,
>
> I really love the concept of lightning talks, but as Till wrote a LT has
> to be more than just a short talk. So I agree that it might be a good
> idea to have an info text what is expected by a LT and separate the LT
> proposals from the normal talk proposals. The submission by mail might
> give a bit higher boundary instead of just checking a radio button in
> the normal cfp system.
>
> For the slots: I would prefer the LTs to be a part of the plenary
> session instead of having a separate LT session.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
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>  > Volker Mische <volker.mische at gmail.com> hat am 12. Januar 2016 um
> 16:21 geschrieben:
>  >
>  >
>  > 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
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