Why do people seem so obsessed with slides? I've seen a great many lightning talks and they almost all had slides. Lightning talks are only 5 minutes. Generally people spend a minute or two setting the projector up. You have five minutes to get your point across and the way to do that is to talk to your audience, not read bullet points off a Powerpoint presentation. I shall boo at people with slides at the London.pm Lightning Tech Meet tomorrow ;-)
Of course I am overly concerned with slides...because I'm organising everyone else and if they are going to use slides then I want them NOW so I don't have 14 nutters running around on the day each trying to get their laptop plugged in.
Oh, and I'll be using slides. But mainly because I can't describe “møøse…” in words. Pesky unicode.
Re:We're not; I am
sky on 2004-07-21T12:17:55
What the fuck is a mööse?Re:We're not; I am
djberg96 on 2004-07-21T15:49:18
It's that thing that once bit my sister....
I posted this to the YAPC::NA suggestion box after the conference:
Minimize the setup time for individual Lightning Talks, as originally mandated by MJD. Specifically, have presenters either use transparencies, or have all presentations on a single machine that stays connected the entire time, or something. The delays between each talk kill the momentum.
Perhaps enforcing the "your presentation starts the moment that the previous presentation ends" rule would encourage people to be a little less slide-obsessed?
--Bill
Re: Lightning talks and slides
n1vux on 2004-07-21T18:35:59
If they insist on using slides, and they're not uploaded in advance, they'd better be on a USB keyring jumpdrive!
