[Mpls-pm] Another lightning talk note

[Dave Rolsky]

So folks are doing a pretty bad job at keeping them down to 10 minutes or 
so.  I went way over in answering questions.

My question to the group is whether or not this is a problem.  My personal 
take on it is that I'd prefer people try to stick to a time limit, as it 
encourages you to think more up front about what you want to say rather 
than rambling cause you know you can go way over.  I think it also 
encourages presenters to limit the scope of their talks in a way that is 
beneficial to the audience, since I think that the listeners will get more 
from either very brief overviews or very narrowly focused in-depth looks 
at something, rather than an overview that tries to cover everything with 
some (but not enough) depth.

I was thinking of being more strict, and maybe even bringing a buzzer or 
something like that.  Thoughts on this?


-dave

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