[Mpls-pm] Another lightning talk note

[eric johnson]

I think the point of lightening talks is that they don't take very much
time.  (Hence the lightening).  The goal is to quickly introduce a
topic.  And to make a speaker focus on the central idea.  If people are
interested in the details of a subject they can delve into it on their
own time.  

If there is enough interest for detail on a specific topic then we can
schedule someone to talk the whole meeting.  


Eric


On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:32:00 -0600, "Jim Anderson" <jim at acadcam.com>
said:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:21:38PM -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, jira0004 wrote:
> > 
> > > 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'd say a max of 20.  30 is approaching full length talk time.  At that 
> > point you may as well go for 45 and just be the only presenter.
> 
> We're not conducting any other business at the meeting, so what's wrong
> with planning on up to 2 hours of presentation?  One presenter for 2
> hours,
> 2 for an hour each, or 6 at 20 minutes?
> 
> We just need to get started on time.
> 
> Perhaps another way to think about it is "Are the meetings going too long
> now?"  If we're ok on meeting length now, then there isn't much point in
> trying to get everybody finished quicker.  And if they are too long, is
> it
> because we're waiting too long to get started, or are the presentations
> taking too long?
> 
> 
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