[yapc] Talk submissions are closed

Dave Rolsky autarch at urth.org
Thu Apr 29 11:06:33 PDT 2010


On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, David Fetter wrote:

> I know you meant well by this, but please, NEVER encourage anyone to do 
> their not-accepted long talk as a lightning talk.  It simply won't fit 
> in the time allotted, and makes the speaker look like a desperate fool. 
> A lightning talk is a completely different beast from any other kind, 
> and is something you write from the ground up as a lightning talk.

I think you're reading too much into this. If you wanted to talk about 
Project X for 40 minutes, there's no reason you can't talk about Project X 
for 5 minutes instead.


-dave

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