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

[Murray Steele]

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> 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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