Re: [activities] Re: [SLUG] Experimental Live video streaming

Marghanita da Cruz <[email protected]> Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:15:14 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.slug.festivities
Organization Ramin Communications
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jeremy Visser wrote:
> Tim Ansell said:
>> At 10 minutes a talk, you get 6 talks a night.
> 
> Is it just me, or is ten minutes way too long for a lightning talk?
> 

For timing purposes allocating 7 minutes per speaker (to allow for 
changeover) and 5 minutes talk, means a first half of 40 minutes - 20min 
break-30min second half, would look like this:
<http://ramin.com.au/linux/meeting-agenda-rundown.shtml>


> For a talk thata^EUR^(TM)s often made up on the fly, that gives a lot of leeway
> to those that drag on and on and on (ZZZzzz). Give them some incentive
> to cut it short and spit it out.
> 
> That said, Ia^EUR^(TM)d take ten minutes over many two hour presentations any day.
> 
> 


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Marghanita da Cruz
http://ramin.com.au
Tel: 0414-869202



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