As I said, it is completely at the discretion of the MC. I'm just saying that is one rationale. It's not like there's policy on this On Jun 12, 2016 17:38, "Roman Shaposhnik" <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 11:07 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > 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. > > Yes, but forbid? Why? If somebody wants one or two slides in PDF why not > make it an option? Be draconian in the deadline of when you need a PDF > (since it has to be stitched into a single slide deck on a single > laptop) but otherwise > I see no danger. > > It does place more burden on the organizer of the session (as last > ApacheCON has > demonstrated). > > Thanks, > Roman. >
