[activities] SLUG - Hit by Lightning! We need your help.

Hello everyone,

With only a week to Linux.conf.au, I'm hope you are all packed and ready
for an exciting week of Open Source coolness!

As people will have lots of cool stories from the previous week will be
doing something for the SLUG meeting. Instead of running two 45 minute
talks we'll be having two sets of Lightning talks. 

For those who don't know what a Lightning talk is, it's a very short
talk to get a short overview about a subject. They are great because if
you are not interested in the current subject you only have to listen for 5
minutes. I personally have found that I always learn something cool,
exciting or new! Some examples can be found at the following URLs:
 * http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Fri/mel8-820.ogg
 * http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/07/30/lightningtalk.html

The first section will be on "General Lightning talks", each person will
get 5 minutes (and 5 minutes only) to talk about anything from something
simple as "The new idea I want help with" to the "My summary of this 45
minute talk" or even "5 cool facts about Rusty Russell".

These are where people speak for 5 minutes about a topic of interest. We
hope many people will have cool things they are bringing back from
Linux.conf.au that they want to talk about.

Please sign up at the following URL:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=t6Is2nMnHr3Q-Xt7cOAHpkQ&hl=en

SLUG will of course be running BOFs at the same time (the exact topics
will be announced later), so if awesome short talks do not interest you
there will be plenty of hacking available.

Tim 'mithro' Ansell

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