[Edinburgh-pm] New open-tech lighting-talks meetup

[Miles Gould]

Hi everyone!

We now have a date for this - *Wednesday March 16th*, i.e. two weeks from
today. We've got the room booked from 6:30 to 8:30. There should be a
meetup.com event, but I see it hasn't been created yet. Anyway, you can see
our shiny new homepage at https://totes-edinburgh.github.io/, and suggest a
talk at
https://github.com/TOTES-Edinburgh/TOTES-Edinburgh.github.io/issues/new?assignees=&labels=Talk%3ASuggestion&template=offer-a-talk.md&title=.
We're planning to be pretty flexible about the length of talks, so don't
worry if you have an idea you can't fit into five minutes. Tony, if the
date works for you could you submit your tree-planting suggestion? Or I
could do it if you send me a slightly longer abstract.

Cheers,
Miles

On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 at 11:49, Miles Gould <miles at assyrian.org.uk> wrote:

> *tap tap* this thing still on?
>
> A couple of friends and I are trying to put together an evening of
> five-minute lightning talks for early March, to be hosted in Codebase (and
> streamed online, but we really want to make it an in-person event like in
> the Before Times insofar as possible). We're soliciting talks on open tech,
> defined very broadly: if there's a cool open-source project you want to
> show off, or open data source that people might find useful, or some aspect
> of licensing that isn't widely understood, or - you get the idea - then
> we'd love to hear about it! It doesn't have to be something you've worked
> on personally, it's fine if it only runs on Windows/AWS/other proprietary
> platform, it just needs to be open in some way. If the first night goes
> well, we're hoping to make it a monthly event, maybe mixing up lightning
> talks with some longer ones.
>
> So, two questions:
>  - Are you interested in attending such an event? (in-person or virtually)
>  - Are you interested in giving a talk?
>
> Cheers,
> Miles
>
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