[Mpls-pm] Another lightning talk note

Dave Rolsky autarch at urth.org
Thu Nov 10 12:32:51 PST 2005


On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Jim Anderson wrote:

> Personally, I don't have a problem with it.  5-10 minutes is certainly a
> good target time to plan for, but if the group interest in the subject
> is high, and the speaker is willing to elaborate, I'm ok with letting a
> discussion go on.  If we get to the point where we have more talks in an
> evening than we have time for, then we need to do something.  As it is,
> if we really kept everybody down to 5 minutes, we'd be leaving in about
> 20-30 minutes - hardly worth the travel time.

I was more thinking that people would declare in advance how much time 
they want (up to 20 minutes max, I'd say) and I'd hold them to it.

> Perhaps a better goal is to plan for an overall meeting time of about
> 1.5-2 hours.  If a couple people want to stay with 5 minutes, no problem
> - if somebody wants 30, just make sure everybody doesn't want 30 the
> same night.

I would agree.  I'd like to get out of there by 9, basically.


-dave

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