[Inpycon] Minutes of a meeting that took place today

[Noufal Ibrahim]

On Wed, Apr 20 2011, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 15:31 +0530, Diptanu Choudhury wrote:
>> +1 on 5 mins Lightning Talk. But Noufal, does it have to be
>> impromptu ?
>> How would you judge whether it is a good talk? 
>
> you do not judge - after all it is only 5 minutes (although even that
> would seem like an hour)

You don't. People talk quickly about all sorts of things during
lightning talks 
        - Smaller python related conferences.
        - Tiny projects that they're doing.
        - Social issues that might have been tackled using python.
        - Books/articles relevant to Python.

The person who manages the lightning talks should take entries on both
the days and do a quick filtering of obvious disasters e.g. companies
trying to advertise their junk and hire people, totally pointless rants
etc. It's subjective (based on the lightning talk MC's decisions) but
that's okay.

As for "bad" talks, that's the beauty of the 5 minute time limit. If it
totally sucks, by the time you tweet saying that the talk sucks, it'll
be over and you can check out the next one.

There is the issue that good talks might not make it to the list and
that can be remedied by making people aware of this as early as
possible. 
        

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