LightningTalks
From Public Wiki FrOSCon 2008
Here is your chance to find other people who might be interested in your program, project, or operating system; or simply ask for help to configure any of them. Show everyone how you are making use of something, a good website with information. Or did you ever want to rant about some technical thing? There your go - this is your chance!
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Talks
Saturday
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Sunday
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Rules
This is how it works:
Registration
- Register your talk and your slides on this wiki page asap!
- Add yourself at the end of the Talks table.
- $LANG: Enter the language (de, en or de+en); do not leave empty.
- $NAME: Enter the speakers' names, links to homepage okay.
- $TITLE: Enter the title; make keyword first, links to the homepage of the project and slides are okay. 65 (23+42) words max.
- Fairness rules - so do not change, delete or skip anyone. Or disqualification else!
- Send your slides by email to Sven (froscon2008-lt@guckes.net).
Talk
Structure of a talk:
- HELO: Who are you? What is the topic?
- BELL: 30secs before the end your will be notified.
- SUM: give an very brief summary.
- QUIT! leave the stage.
- Next!
Hints for bad Speakers
- Just sit somewhere in the audience.
- Wait for the moderator to call you up stage.
- Plug in your laptop and dont waste time with the setup of the mirco.
- Just speak as you always speak.
- Never mind the audience.
Hints for good Speakers
- Practise your talk with friends.
- Send a copy of your slides to the moderators.
- Be in the room in the break before the slot.
- Meet to the moderators and mention your name and talk.
- Test your hardware with the projector.
- Take a seat in the front row.
- Find out who the person+talk is before you.
- Get ready for your talk.
- When called, get on stage.
- Adjust the microphone.
- Say who you are and mention the title of the talk.
- Avoid fast talk. Speak clearly and loud.
- Only say the most interesting stuff!
- Say everything else on your webpage.
- When you hear the gong/sound, summarize, and say goodbye.
- Leave the stage.
Preparation
Check your Hardware: Do not waste time with the setup of your hardware! Study how the VGA of your Laptop works - especially if you have installed Linux only to show off during the event. Test your hardware with the laptop before the show starts. The short periods during the Lightning Talks prohibit that you invest 5 minutes to the Settings of your Graphics card. (That's generally a good idea for all speakers.) Anyone whose setup does not work will be asked to go off stage and try again at the next slot. Some people need an adapter, eg Macbook MiniVGA to VGA adapter! Hopefully someone will bring one... If in doubt - bring your own!
TODO: Which kind of input do the projectors allow?
Register: Enter your talk in the overview table, ie the language (DE/EN), your name, the title, - and a short description.
Content: Usually the topic is some cool program or project and tries to create awareness or atract more people to join and participate. But it can also be a good rant.
Practise!: Practise your talk. Know your words. Time your speech. Do not waste time on deviation, hesitation, or repetition.
Presentation: Whatever the topic - dive right in, and make it count! One "word" of introduction should suffice, and then give us as many info as you can within 4:30mins as possible. Expect the audience to look up references themselves. Remember: This is not a lecture where you should define and explain all words you use - this is a lightning talk!
End: When your hear the buzzer/gong then wrap it up immediately, ie say "thanks for listening to my talk about $FOO. The website about this project is at $URL, my name is $NAME, and you can contact me on number $DECT". Then please leave the stage to ensure a fast changeover to the next speaker. Thankyou.
Links: Upload your slides and add a link to it. If you offer more than one version, however, then please just add a link to your own page, and add more links there.
Moderators: Being a moderator is a stressy job. Two moderators are better than one. So this is why Oliver+Sven are doing this together. One moderator controls the main laptop which shows webpages or whatever. Each moderator has a microphone - and the speaker has one, too. (Headset is great). Changing microphones between people costs time, too - so we are trying to make it as fast as possible. So everyone involved should have a microphone - the speakers, and both of the two moderators. As you will most probably be dealing with a laptop, you should have your hands free; use headsets! Bring some DVI/VGA adaptors - Speakers usually forget them. A moderator will sound with a buzzer/gong to notify the speaker about the end of his time (usually 30secs before the end). Moderators reserve the right to shove boring people off the stage.
Slots: The slots after a break are much referred because you get a chance to test your setup during the break. Moderators should make sure the audio and video angels are present in those breaks to help testing the setup. Be sure to get a (nick)name and a DECT phone number, too.
