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" wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 11:07 PM, Rich Bowen wrote:
> > Another important reason to forbid slides is that one po
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 11:07 PM, Rich Bowen 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 necessa
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,
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 6:37 AM, Jim Jagielski 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 on
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 ;)
> On Jun 6, 2016, at 5:06 PM, Shane Curcuru wrote:
>
> As a regular Lightnin
>
> Talks are 5 minutes, with a timer. Slides are not allowed unless you're
> Rich Bowen (or, can promise to be as informative *and* amusing as Rich
is!).
This began as something of an inside joke, back in Stuttgart in 2006, and
the slides thing is now entirely at the discretion of the MC. I have
