[LRUG] February is a short month, so we have short talks

[Richard Livsey]

Whilst not specifically Ruby, I'm doing a lightning talk at the MongoDB user group in March, so I could do it at LRUG in Feb too if anyone's interested?

It's on the topic of schema design in Mongo, how it forces a different mindset from relational databases and getting over the fear of duplicating data from years of working with Codd's normal forms etc…

I'll come up with a snappier title in due course ;o)

Cheers.

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On Thursday, 12 January 2012 at 11:17, Murray Steele wrote:

> I have 2 volunteers and I think I almost convinced someone else in the pub, but I've not heard back from them.  Who else wants the glory of doing a lightning talk?
>  
> On 9 January 2012 12:31, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com (mailto:murray.steele at gmail.com)> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >  
> > Our February meeting will be on Monday the 13th.  I'm taking the bold step of talking to you about it before the January meeting because, as is now traditional, we'll do lightning talks for the Feb meeting.  For these meetings we usually have between 7 and 9 speakers, so I want to get a head start on collecting "volunteers" to fill the slots.  
> >  
> > If you haven't been to one of our February meetings before let me explain the format we use.  We use the 20x20 format where each speaker is allowed 20 slides that must auto-tranisition after 20 seconds giving them 6 minutes and 40 seconds in which to get their point across.  You can see some examples by looking at the videos from last year (http://lanyrd.com/2011/lrug-feb-2011/video/).  
> >  
> > I'll announce this at the start of tonight's meeting, but I wanted to give everyone some warning (as if you didn't already expect it) so that in the pub when my first words to you are "Hey you should do a lightning talk in February." instead of "Hello! Why yes I would like a pint, how kind!", you've had some time to think about what you'll talk about ;)  
> >  
> > Cheers,
> >  
> > Muz
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