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By R Geoffrey Avery (rGeoffrey) from Philadelphia.pm Date: Monday, 21 June 2010 16:00 Duration: 100 minutes Target audience: Any Language: English |
Lightning Talks Day 1
You can find more information on the speaker's site:
Schedule
Ben Mouw - A/B testing with Perl
Bruce Gray (Util) - Phalanx Lives!
Curtis Jewell (CSJewell) - Strawberry Perl Professional and other modern tools...
Josh ben Jore (diotalevi) - Ruby is eating your lunch
Christopher Bottoms - Let the humans work! (An anecdote showing how thoughtful humans can simplify tasks for computers)
Jesse Luehrs (doy) - App::Termcast - share your terminals!
Mark Stosberg - Introducing DBIx::Simple + SQL::Interp
Chas. Owens (cowens) - perlopquick - a quick reference for Perl 5 operators
scrottie's talk here
Aran Deltac (bluefeet) - Introduction to DBIx::Connector
Chris Nehren (apeiron) - Discoverable Documentation
Chris Nehren (apeiron) - Promulger: Yet Another MLM
ingy's talk here
Karen Pauley - 10 Things To Do With A Conference T-shirt
Piers Cawley (pdcawley) - This space intentionally left *#!@ing blank
More talks tomorrow R Geoffrey Avery (rGeoffrey) - Lightning Talks Day 2.
These Lightning Talks may be serious, funny, or both. They may be given by experienced speakers already giving full length talks or by first time speakers just starting out (this is a great way to get started if you have something to say). If you are a first time speaker you will win a tie with an experience speaker when the schedule is made if it comes to it. Today's first time speaker could be tomorrow's keynote speaker.
We will have about 16-20 Lightning Talks of 5 minutes each on Monday and another 10-12 on Tuesday. Submit your talk through the submit talk link on this website. The first deadline is with the full length talks in April. The second deadline is one week before the conference starts and many proposals will be accepted. At least two speaking spots on day 2 will be held open until the day before the talks to give you a chance to see something at the conference and put together a Lightning Talk response. However if you wait for the later deadlines note that there are fewer spots available and you are less likely to be accepted so please try to submit more than a week before the conference.
In addition to the five minute Lightning Talks where you get to use your computer, slides, and any other tool, we will also have some Lightning Advertisements. These are only 30 seconds, you don't have to submit a proposal, you don't get any slides, and the only AV assistance offered is a microphone. If you have a BOF to announce, an auction item so advertise or any other short message you can use the transition time that would be otherwise wasted between Lightning Talks to share your message. Just show up before we start and take a seat in the assigned seats in the front of the room.
Why Would You Want to do a Lightning Talk?
Maybe you've never given a talk before, and you'd like to start small. For a Lightning Talk, you don't need to make slides, and if you do decide to make slides, you only need to make three.
Maybe you're nervous and you're afraid you'll mess up. It's a lot easier to plan and deliver a five minute talk than it is to deliver a long talk. And if you do mess up, at least the painful part will be over quickly.
Maybe you don't have much to say. Maybe you just want to ask a question, or invite people to help you with your project, or boast about something you did, or tell a short cautionary story. These things are all interesting and worth talking about, but there might not be enough to say about them to fill up thirty minutes.
Maybe you have a lot of things to say, and you're already going to give a long talk on one of them, and you don't want to hog the spotlight. There's nothing wrong with giving several Lightning Talks. Hey, they're only five minutes.
On the other side, people might want to come to a lightning talk when they wouldn't come to a long talk on the same subject. The risk for the attendees is smaller: If the talk turns out to be dull, or if the person giving the talk turns out to be a really bad speaker, well, at least it's over in five minutes. With lightning talks, you're never stuck in some boring lecture for forty-five minutes.
Still having trouble picking a topic, here are some suggestions:
1. Why my favorite module is X.
2. I want to do cool project X. Does anyone want to help?
3. Successful Project: I did project X. It was a success. Here's how you could benefit.
4. Failed Project: I did project X. It was a failure, and here's why.
5. Heresy: People always say X, but they're wrong. Here's why.
6. You All Suck: Here's what is wrong with the our community.
7. Call to Action: Let's all do more of X / less of X.
8. Wouldn't it be cool if X?
9. Someone needs to do X.
10. Wish List
11. Why X was a mistake.
12. Why X looks like a mistake, but isn't.
13. What it's like to do X.
14. Here's a useful technique that worked.
15. Here's a technique I thought would be useful but didn't work.
16. Why algorithm X sucks.
17. Comparison of algorithms X and Y.
Of course, you could give the talk on anything you wanted, whether or not it is on this list. If we get a full schedule of nothing but five minutes of ranting and raving on each topic, a good time will still be had by most.
- Justin Hunter (arcanez)
- Jesse Luehrs (doy)
- Curtis Jewell (CSJewell)
- Lee Aylward (leedo)
- Andrew Rodland (hobbs)
- Todd Rinaldo (toddr)
- Robert Threet (RAT)
- Alek Rollyson (al3k)
- Jon Miner (miner)
- Shawn Moore (sartak)
- Arthur Schmidt (fREW)
- Ryan Dietrich
- Tyler Riddle (triddle)
- Stephen Scaffidi (hercynium)
- Charles Phillips
- Christopher Madsen (cjm)
- Max Shughart (Maxdash McSlam)
- Christopher Bottoms
- Kenneth Graves (kag)
- James Carman (Jeremy)
- Michael Lambert
- David H. Adler (dha)
- Sterling Hanenkamp (zostay)
- Byron Austin
- Craig Barritt (gonkster)
- Jason May (jasonmay)
- Dylan Hardison (dylan)
- Will Natale
- Wes Malone (wesm)
- Nova Patch (patch)
- Kevin Smith
- Elliot Shank
- Will Coleda (coke)
- Dave Rolsky (autarch)
- Stan Schwertly (stan_theman)
- Damian Conway (damian)
- Adam Foxson (Fhoxh)
- Kurt Edmiston
- Thomas Stanton (tstanton)
- Jamie Pitts
- Benjamin McMahon
- Mike Greb (mikegrb)
- Joe Kline (gizmo)
- Patrick Michaud (Pm)
- Jacob Gelbman
- Chris Nehren (apeiron)
- Gordon Child
- john napiorkowski (jnap)
- Patrick Shuff
- Victor Stevko
- Mohammed Chaudhry (Mo)
- Chas. Owens (cowens)
- Josh ben Jore (diotalevi)
- Jason Crome (CromeDome)
- Matt Christian
- Ed Szynaka
- Makoto Nozaki (makoto)
- Kevin Falcone (jibsheet)
- Jesse Vincent
- Steve Bohlen
- gary
- John Anderson (genehack)
- Matt Follett
- Alex Timoshenko
- Andy Gorman (agorman)
- Matt Meinwald
- R Geoffrey Avery (rGeoffrey)
- Adam Prime (jsut)
- Mike Barry (derby)
- Nicholas Perez (nperez)
- jerry gay (particle)
- Robert Blackwell (rblackwe)
- John Judd
- Aaron Buechlein
- Jesse Thompson (zjt)
- Michael Schwern (Schwern)
- Brian Shilling
- Aran Deltac (bluefeet)
- G. Wade Johnson (gwadej)
- Kenny Drobnack
- iank
- Scott Beck (bline)
- Piers Cawley (pdcawley)
- Jason Coble
- Balkee Balakrishnan
- Jonathan Swartz
- Packy Anderson
- Bruce Gray (Util)
- Mark Jubenville (ioncache)
- Jacinta Richardson (jarich)
- Jay Hannah (jhannah)
- bryan abfalter
- Lawrence Hixson (Larry)
- Greg Estep
- Dan Kurtz
- Michael Moser
- Ben Thomas (ozukira)
- Philip Henderson
- Chris Hardie
- Mark Stosberg
- Kevin Shaum
- John Lightsey (J.D.)
- Jon Gentle (atrodo)
- Paul Vining
- Chris Hemmerich
- Tim Heaney (oylenshpeegul)
- R. Todd Williams