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• We're not; I am (Score:2)

  by 2shortplanks (968)

  We don't really need slides for most lightning talks; As the article I wrote for Perl.com will go to show (bug me when you get back to the office and I'll show you a preview)

  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…
  • Re:We're not; I am (Score:1)

    by sky (1411)

    What the fuck is a mööse?

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    • Re:We're not; I am (Score:2)

      by djberg96 (2603)

      It's that thing that once bit my sister....
• Re: Lightning talks and slides (Score:1)

  by wnodom (2030)

  I posted this to the YAPC::NA suggestion box [kwiki.org] 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 slid
  • Re: Lightning talks and slides (Score:1)

    by n1vux (1492)

    If they insist on using slides, and they're not uploaded in advance, they'd better be on a USB keyring jumpdrive!

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    Bill
    # I had a sig when sigs were cool
    use Sig;
• why slides? nobody knows. (Score:2)

  by pne (661)

  It is indeed a mystery, and I've wondered the same in the past.

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• Why? (Score:2)

  by hfb (74)

  Because who wants to look at the nervous geek when you can look at pretty pictures of babies or read text? Maybe if you had a proxy like Colin Firth or Hugh Grant talk for you ....or, well, some chick with big boobs or something...:)