[LCA2019 Chat] Lightning talks

[John Carter]

Lightning talks are always my favourite part of any conference.

Most trilogies should be novels, most novels should be short stories, most
lectures should be lightning talks.

It's like injecting a stream of ideas straight into your cortex.

> I think the main issue is that there's always *too many* proposals.

So break 'em up into streams and run two streams...

I'm a flea that lives on the end of the long tail...

What's on a curated list of talks is what the hive mind thinks is great.

The great thing about lightning talks is it allows the long tail to wag.


On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 9:39 AM martin f krafft <madduck at madduck.net> wrote:

> also sprach Simon Lyall <simon at darkmere.gen.nz> [2019-01-18 08:18 +1300]:
> >Lessons could perhaps be learnt from the signups for the Hardware
> >Miniconf.
>
> I think the main issue is that there's always *too many* proposals.
> It's been great to see the team last year switch from
> first-come-first-picked to a curated process. Opening the
> submissions for that even earlier will just put extra burden on them
> to select the few lightning talks we can have. I think there is
> definitely value in requiring people to physically submit a piece of
> paper (= effort) at the right time (= need to pay attention) as
> a means to pre-filter the submissions to just the set of people who
> really want to speak, rather than just those who are just quick to
> put their name down for everything.
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