[oak perl] Instant Talks

Belden Lyman blyman at iii.com
Wed Nov 13 18:37:38 CST 2002


George Woolley wrote:

> I'd like to try having a place in our meetings for very short talks,
> including "Instant Talks".
> Anyone have other names for Instant talks?
> e.g. "Hello World Talks".
> 

"Lightning Talks" is a Perl-community phrase for these
types of rapid lectures. Good-natured heckling is not
unknown during lightning talks.

Or we could coin a neologism; blurps sounds good to me.
It gets across the idea of a blurb, maybe some blabbing,
and a mental *burp*.

Belden




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