[LRUG] In the grim darkness of the far future there is only alternative presentation formats

[Murray Steele]

After the last LRUG the conversation I was having with some LRUG members
moved onto what kind of different-style evenings we could have at LRUG, we
all agreed that most folk seem to have a positive attitude towards a
lightning-talk based evening, but we wondered how best to organise it.  A
quick think later and someone suggested basing an evening round the Pecha
Kucha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha) style of presentations
(Executive Summary: 20 slides, 20 seconds each, no interruptions till the
end).  Although I believe we can't actually use the term Pecha Kucha as it's
trademarked and they got a bit nasty about it apparently, so ssshhh!!


This seems like a lark, as nothing makes a presentation more fun than having
to follow strict rules.  In our beery wisdom we decided that the February
meeting (11th Feb) would be the best time to do this, not December as there
could be parties or whatever and not January as folk might not be here or
still be unrecovered from Hogmanay excess.


We have the room for ~90 minutes so we'd need at least 9 folk to do
something, but I'm sure we could accommodate more or less people.  I figure
with a 4ish month lead time this shouldn't be too hard to drum up enough
people.  To make it easy, if people want I could come up with some templates
for Keynote, Powerpoint, S5 and whatever the Open Office one is called, but
I have terrible design skills so it'll just be based on the default design
templates.

So, what do people think?

Muz
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