Hi!
I just got this idea, a lot of people are working on different open source projects, and want to host a hack session during fudcon about that. Maybe it would be a good idea to let those people present their (new?) project in 10 or 15 minutes (lightning talks) before the actual hack sessions start. that way the attendees will learn about new project, and it will be probably easier to get new people involved with smaller or new projects.
What do you think about it?
regards, Bert Desmet
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Bert Desmet bert@devnox.be wrote:
Hi!
I just got this idea, a lot of people are working on different open source projects, and want to host a hack session during fudcon about that. Maybe it would be a good idea to let those people present their (new?) project in 10 or 15 minutes (lightning talks) before the actual hack sessions start. that way the attendees will learn about new project, and it will be probably easier to get new people involved with smaller or new projects.
What do you think about it?
I love this idea, Bert. At the last FUDCon in North America I remember speaking with Luke Macken about lightning talks. We hadn't done them at Toronto but we both thought they would be an excellent idea at an upcoming event. I especially like the idea of doing them early so that people can hear them and get excited about an upcoming hackfest. When we start putting together more details on the FUDCon wiki page, please feel free to remind us to have a set aside time for lightning talks!
Paul
On 07/17/10 at 05:10pm, Bert Desmet wrote:
Hi!
I just got this idea, a lot of people are working on different open source projects, and want to host a hack session during fudcon about that. Maybe it would be a good idea to let those people present their (new?) project in 10 or 15 minutes (lightning talks) before the actual hack sessions start. that way the attendees will learn about new project, and it will be probably easier to get new people involved with smaller or new projects.
What do you think about it?
regards, Bert Desmet
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Bert,
I like this idea. We have done lightning talks several times at the local LUG meetings at they go over well.
This would be a good way to give people an intro to many different projects and encourage participation.
On 17-07-2010 11:10, Bert Desmet wrote:
Hi!
I just got this idea, a lot of people are working on different open source projects, and want to host a hack session during fudcon about that. Maybe it would be a good idea to let those people present their (new?) project in 10 or 15 minutes (lightning talks) before the actual hack sessions start. that way the attendees will learn about new project, and it will be probably easier to get new people involved with smaller or new projects.
What do you think about it?
regards, Bert Desmet
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Hello guys.
We are doing it in the FUDCon Latam Santiago in that exact moment!
Lightning talks are very good and fun :-)
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Rodrigo Padula rodrigopadula@projetofedora.org wrote:
On 17-07-2010 11:10, Bert Desmet wrote:
I just got this idea, a lot of people are working on different open source projects, and want to host a hack session during fudcon about that. Maybe it would be a good idea to let those people present their (new?) project in 10 or 15 minutes (lightning talks) before the actual hack sessions start. that way the attendees will learn about new project, and it will be probably easier to get new people involved with smaller or new projects.
What do you think about it?
For the past several North American FUDCons we've had "pitches" before the hackfests similar to the barcamp pitches. (ie: who you are, brief description of what you'll hack on.)
I think that lightning talks would be a good addition but depending on the number of separate hackfests, we might want to do both.
I was thinking of something like this (just my thought, feel free to tear it apart :-) use lightning talks to help interest people who are thinking about attending hackfests but not sure, that they would like it. Do this by having three lightning talk sessions:
Day 1 barcamp opening (FPL or other organizer) barcamp - pitches - voting - sessions lightning talks barcamp closing (FPL or other organizer)
Day 2 hackfest opening pitches lightning talks hackfest lunch (if ordering pizza/other food delivered) -- lightning talks
People go to fudpub
day 3 lightning talks hackfest
lightning talks could be five minutes or ten minutes each. 30 minutes to an hour seems like a good length for the lightning talk sessions. Probably signup in advance.
Having them on the hackfest days has the following ramifications: - May encourage more people to come to the hackfests (ah, I'll go see what the lightning talks are in the morning... Ooh that lightning talk about transifex was neat and I'm already here so maybe I'll stay and hack on it) - means, logistically, we'd need a room to hold everyone on the hackfest days.
Rodrigo mentioned that we were having a lightning talk session in FUDCon Santiago just about the time this was sent :-) One thing I thought worked well was to have the count down projected on the rear wall (side wall where both the speakers and audience could see it might be even better). A second thing that worked well was to have the buzzer when time expired make everyone laugh a bit. That way if the speaker is going on and on, they leave the stage with people laughing and clapping rather than a buzzer that reminds you of getting a question wrong on a quiz show.
-Toshio
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 05:09:55AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Rodrigo Padula rodrigopadula@projetofedora.org wrote:
On 17-07-2010 11:10, Bert Desmet wrote:
I just got this idea, a lot of people are working on different open source projects, and want to host a hack session during fudcon about that. Maybe it would be a good idea to let those people present their (new?) project in 10 or 15 minutes (lightning talks) before the actual hack sessions start. that way the attendees will learn about new project, and it will be probably easier to get new people involved with smaller or new projects.
What do you think about it?
For the past several North American FUDCons we've had "pitches" before the hackfests similar to the barcamp pitches. (ie: who you are, brief description of what you'll hack on.)
I think that lightning talks would be a good addition but depending on the number of separate hackfests, we might want to do both.
I was thinking of something like this (just my thought, feel free to tear it apart :-) use lightning talks to help interest people who are thinking about attending hackfests but not sure, that they would like it. Do this by having three lightning talk sessions:
Day 1 barcamp opening (FPL or other organizer) barcamp
- pitches
- voting
- sessions
lightning talks barcamp closing (FPL or other organizer)
Day 2 hackfest opening pitches lightning talks hackfest lunch (if ordering pizza/other food delivered) -- lightning talks
People go to fudpub
day 3 lightning talks hackfest
In accordance with the feedback received at the previous FUDCon, we are extending the technical sessions into day 2. I'm not sure yet whether we need to do an entire additional day, or whether we'll use half the day for those talks. With too much going on at once, it's difficult for people to get to the talks they feel they need to see to contribute effectively, so we want to narrow the tracks (instead of running, say, 6 rooms at once, we could run 4).
lightning talks could be five minutes or ten minutes each. 30 minutes to an hour seems like a good length for the lightning talk sessions. Probably signup in advance.
We could set length based on how many people are signing up in advance, but I suspect given our audience we'd easily fill an hour at 5 minutes per.
Having them on the hackfest days has the following ramifications:
- May encourage more people to come to the hackfests (ah, I'll go
see what the lightning talks are in the morning... Ooh that lightning talk about transifex was neat and I'm already here so maybe I'll stay and hack on it)
- means, logistically, we'd need a room to hold everyone on the hackfest days.
We should be able to do this with existing space since we're going to have the assigned classrooms for 2 days instead of just 1. That will include a larger space seating at least 100 (and probably holding somewhat more). We also have the capability of an overflow room and *possibly* piping video there.
Rodrigo mentioned that we were having a lightning talk session in FUDCon Santiago just about the time this was sent :-) One thing I thought worked well was to have the count down projected on the rear wall (side wall where both the speakers and audience could see it might be even better). A second thing that worked well was to have the buzzer when time expired make everyone laugh a bit. That way if the speaker is going on and on, they leave the stage with people laughing and clapping rather than a buzzer that reminds you of getting a question wrong on a quiz show.
Hee hee, I like this idea. We'll need to come up with a spectacularly funny sound, then!
Toshio Kuratomi said the following on 07/20/2010 05:09 AM Pacific Time:
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Rodrigo Padula rodrigopadula@projetofedora.org wrote:
On 17-07-2010 11:10, Bert Desmet wrote:
I just got this idea, a lot of people are working on different open source projects, and want to host a hack session during fudcon about that. Maybe it would be a good idea to let those people present their (new?) project in 10 or 15 minutes (lightning talks) before the actual hack sessions start. that way the attendees will learn about new project, and it will be probably easier to get new people involved with smaller or new projects.
What do you think about it?
For the past several North American FUDCons we've had "pitches" before the hackfests similar to the barcamp pitches. (ie: who you are, brief description of what you'll hack on.)
I think that lightning talks would be a good addition but depending on the number of separate hackfests, we might want to do both.
I like the combo idea. Having the proposer/owner of the session explain what it is and why they are passionate about it is key.
At the Community Leadership Summit last Saturday there were no pitches for the talks. It made it much harder to know which sessions I wanted to attend and less engaging.
John
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