[tpm] Standard for Lightning Talks?

[Olaf Alders]

On 2010-10-01, at 10:55 AM, arocker at Vex.Net wrote:

> 
> Now that USB sticks are ubiquitous, cheap, and capacious, perhaps we
> should make it a standard procedure for lightning talks to have one
> machine connected to the projector for the entire evening, and everybody
> bring their visuals on a stick to insert into it?
> 
> We might have to agree on some standards, (e.g. the machine will have
> Firefox, a bash-compatible shell, and a particular version of perl), but
> it would avoid the current inter-talk fumbling.

That would be helpful in a lot of cases, especially since there's no easy wireless in the classrooms.  If the main machine is already online, that would make for an easier transition. 


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