[Mpls-pm] Call for lightning talks for October

[Dave Rolsky]

So next month we're planning to do lightning talks.

I'm thinking that 90 minutes or so with a break in the middle should be 
good.  At conferences where this is done there's usually a pretty strict 5 
minute time limit but in our case I don't know that we'll have 16 
different talks, so I'm thinking 5-10 minutes per talk.

Please send talk submissions to me directly so I can put together a 
schedule.  The talk submission should be a title, a very brief description 
(1-2 sentences) and how much time you want.  Multiple submissions are 
great, but if we get lots of submissions I'll just pick one.

I'd like to come up with a schedule by the beginning of October so please 
submit yours soon.

Some possible talk ideas:

- Some modules on CPAN I love
- Some modules on CPAN I have to use but hate
- A great module idea
- Why I love Perl
- Why I hate Perl
- Why I love technology X
- A cool app/tool I wrote
- Cool thing you've never heard about

The great thing about lightning talks is that you really don't need to be 
a super-experienced presenter to put together 5 minutes worth of stuff.

I'd also encourage people not to worry about slides too much either. 
Realistically, you only have time for a few slides at most, so this isn't 
something that should you should spend lots of your time on.  And of 
course, with a 5 minute talk, it's easy enough to have no slides at all.

Also, for those who are interested, the tool I used to make my slides for 
the last talk is called Spork and it's on CPAN.  There's also a really 
nice plugin called Spork::Hilite for doing cool code highlighting.



-dave

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