[LCA2019 Chat] Lightning talks

[Hugh Blemings]

On 18/1/19 08:27, Christopher Neugebauer wrote:
> Hello from your favourite Lightning Talk Czar!
 >
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 13:10, John Carter <john.carter at taitradio.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think the main issue is that there's always *too many* proposals.
>>
>> So break 'em up into streams and run two streams...
> 
> At LCA, there's _always_ too many lightning talks. In most years,
> we've had numerous miniconfs with lightning talks, as well as plenary
> lightning talks at the end of the main conference.
> 
> We experimented with curation last year to make sure that new speakers
> got a chance to go on stage, and also to make sure that some of the
> same old faces didn't chew up all the available time. Curation really
> helped with that. It also really improved the quality, and let us make
> sure we had a truly wide range of topics. I really hope we continue
> curating talks into this year too.

I'll volunteer to give you a hand with this curating Chris - many hands 
make light work and all that :)

Cheers,
Hugh