Note that we also have held incubator lighting talks in the incubator track (not a single unified session in the ballroom) which are perfect for what you are asking.
Historically these have been 3 sessions per hour, 15 minutes each, replete with slide decks. Exactly what you are thinking of, but tuned to the incubating, not top-level projects. On Jun 6, 2016 2:03 PM, "Benedikt Ritter" <brit...@apache.org> wrote: > William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> schrieb am Mo., 6. Juni 2016 um > 20:09 Uhr: > > > Our lightning talks have ranged from the theatrical, to the silly, to the > > deep > > tech dive into the edges of the ASF. > > > > The programming is 5 minutes. No slides are allowed (but some get away > > with them on the discretion of the MCs.) Some who use them choose the > > auto-advance program (n seconds per slide, no control/overrides allowed.) > > > > Thank you William! > > So it's not the right platform for a "I'll show you some code example to > get you started with Project XYZ" kind of talk, right? > > Benedikt > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > how are lightning talks organized at ApacheCon? I've seen very strict > > > sessions where you were not allowed to bring anything but yourself (so > no > > > slides) and less restricted ones where the only restriction was that it > > had > > > to be done in 10 Minutes. > > > > > > Thank you, > > > Benedikt > > > > > >
