[Mpls-pm] Another lightning talk note

[jira0004]

Yeah, I know I went over, I put together my talk
rather late and didn't have a chance to pair down what
I did and didn't want to say.

Generally, I think the thing to do would be to ask
folks upfront to reserve an amount of time with the
minimum being 5 minutes and the maximum being 30
minutes.

I think that folks should be able to ask
questions/make points during some one's talk so the
scheduling should include maybe an additional 10
minutes for questions/points made during some one's
talk.

Some times the person doing the persontation has said
something in a confusing way and asking them at the
time what they meant is more useful than asking
afterwards.  Additionally, sometimes some one has a
useful point to contribute, so I think as long as
people are polite, getting to ask questions/make
comments during some one's talk is a good idea.

I should note, I am strictly opposed to a buzzer; you
can always ask someone to conclude their talk and do
an applicable follow-up another night in the future.

Regards,

Peter Jirak
E: jira0004 at yahoo.com


--- Dave Rolsky <autarch at urth.org> wrote:

> 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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