Lightning Talks #2
Lightning Talks #2
By R Geoffrey Avery (rGeoffrey) from Philadelphia.pm
Date: Tuesday, 4 August 2009 16:45
Duration: 40 minutes
Target audience: Corporate Perl
Language:
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Schedule
* H.Merijn Brand (Tux) - So you know about CPAN, now what
* Patrick Michaud (Pm) - Rakudo Perl Roadmap
* Mark Fowler (Trelane) - XML::Easy
* Stefan Seifert (Nine) - CiderWebmail - whooping squirrelmail's butt
* Andrey Shitov (ash) - Measuring Perl in square kilometers
* Emmanuel Rodriguez (potyl) - Champlain - OpenStreetMaps widget
* Tina Müller (tinita) - XSS, SQLI, CSRF, WTF?
* Philippe Bruhat (BooK) - A decade of Perl conferences, all over the world
* Piers Cawley (pdcawley) - Short Session about Swearing
More talks yesterday R Geoffrey Avery (rGeoffrey) - Lightning Talks #1
Speakers and anyone giving a Lightning Advertisement should come down to the front of the room as soon as possible after the last of the long talks finish. The first talk is without slides and will start before all the speakers have finished setting up so please try to get to your seats quickly. Remember the front row is reserved for speakers and advertisers.
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.
Attended by: Andrey Shitov (ash), Tobias Henoeckl (hoeni), Nicholas Clark, Patrick Michaud (Pm), Laurent Dami (dami), Peter Stoehr, Leon Brocard (acme), Dave Cross (davorg), Karl Moens (CountZero), Piers Cawley (pdcawley), cjbradford, Martin Schipany (ElCondor), Pedro Figueiredo (pfig), Luciano Rocha (Strange), Damian Conway (damian), Florian Ragwitz (rafl), Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ (daxim), Pedro Frazão, José Castro (cog), Barbie, Renee Bäcker (reneeb), Elizabeth Mattijsen (liz), osfameron, Thomas Klausner (domm), Panu Ervamaa (pnu), Vincent Pit (vincent), Jesse Vincent, Peter Makholm (brother), Damon Davison (allolex), Gabor Szabo (szabgab), David H. Adler (dha), H.Merijn Brand (Tux), Joaquín Ferrero (explorer), Markus Wichmann (telemorphix), Pedro Melo (melo), Paul Fenwick (pjf), stigo, Søren Lund (slu), Bernhard Schmalhofer (bernhard), Jordi Porta, Giuseppe Maxia (gmax), Roman Baumer (rba), James Laver (jjl), Maciej Czekay (Bruno), Michele Beltrame (arthas), oleber, Roberto Henríquez, Jozef Kutej (jozef), Carlos Pires (acmpires), Luis Motta Campos (LMC), Marcel Grünauer (Marcel), Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar), Olivier Mengué (dolmen), Thierry Douez (tdz), Bálint Szilakszi (szbalint), JJ Allen, Arjen Laarhoven, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni (maddingue), Frederico Recsky (Frederico), Mário Barbosa, Ronald Blaschke (rblasch), Tom Hukins, Jorge Morgado, Jose L. Hernandez, Aristotle, Salve J. Nilsen (sjn), Abigail, Michael Zedeler (mzedeler), Wendy Van Dijk (woolfy), Rui Patinha (rfp), Petru Ratiu (rpetre), Mark Stewart, Salvador Fandiño (salva), Lars Thegler (tagg), BinGOs, Henrik Tougaard (htoug), Chisel Wright, Jorge Bras, Filipe Moreira, Pedro Rodrigues (careca), Marco Neves (themage), Joerg Meltzer (codeacrobat), Adrian Arnautu, David Faux, Stefano Rodighiero (larsen), Rosellyne Worrall (rozallin), Stelios Gikas (sgikas), Jörg Plate (Patterner), Sérgio Bernardino (smpb), Enrique Nell (e-nell), Michael Kröll (pepl), Walt Mankowski (waltman), João Carreira, Stefan Hornburg (Racke), Stan Sawa, Carl Mäsak (masak), Billy Abbott (cowfish), Dirk De Nijs (ddn123456), Alex Kapranoff (kappa), Flavio Poletti (polettix), Anders Nielsen (anielsen), Alexandru Nedelcu, Henrik Hald Nørgaard, jani, Farley Balasuriya (Questorian), Bogdan Lucaciu (zamolxes), Philippe Bruhat (BooK), Jordi Delgado (jdelgado), Wieland Gmeiner, Franck Cuny, Markus Pinkert (Bedivere), António Martins (ammartins), Markus Förster, Ulrich Wisser (wisser), Lars Holgaard, Jan Henning Thorsen (batman), Luís Miguel Braga (microft), Hugo Costa, Adam Reeks, Jacinta Richardson (jarich), Ricardo Marques (ricmarques), Thomas Netousek, Ruslan Zakirov (ruz), Cosmin Budrica (cosmincx), Darius Jokilehto, Paula Valenca (phantas), Drew Taylor (drewbie), Manuel Gomes (wagemage), Luis Rodrigues (goblin), Alex Muntada (alexm), Christian Westgaard (ComLock), Edmund von der Burg (evdb), Francisco Lourenço (fml), Henrique Alves (Halves), Hermen Lesscher (hermen), Abe Timmerman (abeltje), Lutz Gehlen, Alistair MacLeod (anm), Nicolas Mendoza (nicomen), Jørgen Elgaard Larsen (elhaard), David Leadbeater (dg), Smylers, Jose Plana, Lech Baczyński (lechu), Andrew Beech, Luís Mendes (big), Bartosz Jakubski (migo), Andreas Hetey, Sergio Arias, Thomas Heine, Herbert Breunung (lichtkind),