[wplug-plan] A suggestion for a future gum

[Rick Smith]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:42:35PM -0500, Mark Sikora wrote:
> I must admit; I do like the lightning talk idea.

I'm still interested in contributing "Old Tools That Rulz".
(First I'll work on actually showing up at a gathering)

My understanding of a lightning talk (from Perl conference) is
5 minutes, to keep it fast and to the point.

-- Rick

> On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, David Ostroske wrote:
> 
> > This sort of discussion would be ideal as a "lightning talk," the
> > sort of thing that James suggested a while back.  Mike, you could
> > spend 10 minutes talking about email programs.  Someone else could
> > talk about (say) web browsers.  Someone else could discuss
> > configuring a favorite editor, et cetera. 
> >
> > If we were to have such a lightning talk session at a GUM, we should
> > announce it well enough in advance on the regular list, so that we
> > could invite new folks to give short presentations.  They could
> > cover a lot of "bread 'n butter" topics that we might otherwise
> > overlook, and it might lead to bolder presenters and presentations
> > in the future. 
> >
> > http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug-plan