Another important reason to forbid slides is that one point of lightning talks is to offer the stage to people that would not otherwise give a talk. Thus, keeping the bar as low as possible encourages people to step up who haven't necessarily prepared anything ahead of time. On Jun 12, 2016 10:03, "Marvin Humphrey" <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 6:37 AM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > > So why No Slides? > > > > Mostly it's to prevent the switch-out of laptops which > > causes delays. This was back when the timer-app was run on > > my laptop on the podium. Since we do this differently now, > > we may consider a change ;) > > How about one slide? > > * Possible to queue with no delay (depending on projection rig and > availability of support staff) > * No fiddling with presentation tools. > * Encourage presenters to be concise. > > Marvin Humphrey >
