[Mpls-pm] Another lightning talk note

[Jim Anderson]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 02:02:08PM -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> I was thinking of being more strict, and maybe even bringing a buzzer or 
> something like that.  Thoughts on this?

Personally, I don't have a problem with it.  5-10 minutes is certainly a
good target time to plan for, but if the group interest in the subject
is high, and the speaker is willing to elaborate, I'm ok with letting a
discussion go on.  If we get to the point where we have more talks in an
evening than we have time for, then we need to do something.  As it is,
if we really kept everybody down to 5 minutes, we'd be leaving in about
20-30 minutes - hardly worth the travel time.

Perhaps a better goal is to plan for an overall meeting time of about
1.5-2 hours.  If a couple people want to stay with 5 minutes, no problem
- if somebody wants 30, just make sure everybody doesn't want 30 the
same night.

If I get my a** in gear, I'm planning to do a talk or two on Perl/Tk,
and I can probably expound on that for as little or as much as people
are willing to tolerate, perhaps even making it an hour talk, but broken
up over 3 or 4 meetings.

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