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dont take the title so literally - im not talking about a group discussing lightning. Think lightning fast presentations in front of an audience, all sitting waiting to give their talk.
Each talk cannot last longer than 5 minutes. Its a bit of a shame though - not much can be said in 5 minutes, and time really seems to fly by. It does raise an eyebrow of curiosity though - probably whilst ive typed this, a few of the audience have googled for various topics.
So, who turned up? Quite a crowd. Alan Cox - a master kernel hacker, who has been interviewed by Linux Format magazine. Briefly said hello, which soon turned into a question about the kernel. Probably an overly common question, too.
Ever heard of imdb.com? Go look at it - you probably have been on the site sometime in the past. It is the Internet Movie Database. One of the guys responsible for it was at the lightning talks, giving a talk about the site over the years. 15 million unique hits a month - wow. Just, wow.
Tesla gave a talk on editing wikipedia. She does alot of this - learnt a few things about wikipedia, and was rather interesting to watch. However, im unlikely to edit wikipedia, so it hardly applied to me :(.
Neil did a talk on optimisation for google. There\'s alot more that could have been said if there was more time, but 5 minutes is really short for such a topic. Would have liked to have seen more of that one.
Well, now ive been asked to do a talk on setting up a media centre on Linux. How am I going to cram all that into 5 minutes? Theres compiling the correct kernel modules, installing the player, setting up recording schedules - thats just for getting the TV section to work. Maybe they shouldnt be lighting talks - more like snail talks. Although then comes the problem of whether 15 or more people will give a talk - would take all day!
After the talk we all walked down to Earnest Willows Bar. Spent it talking about setting up a network, burning CD's etc, to Brent. Im really getting the urge to make a setup program for a complicated task - perhaps an all-out configuration of apache, mysql, and php, when compiled from scratch? Maybe.
Each talk cannot last longer than 5 minutes. Its a bit of a shame though - not much can be said in 5 minutes, and time really seems to fly by. It does raise an eyebrow of curiosity though - probably whilst ive typed this, a few of the audience have googled for various topics.
So, who turned up? Quite a crowd. Alan Cox - a master kernel hacker, who has been interviewed by Linux Format magazine. Briefly said hello, which soon turned into a question about the kernel. Probably an overly common question, too.
Ever heard of imdb.com? Go look at it - you probably have been on the site sometime in the past. It is the Internet Movie Database. One of the guys responsible for it was at the lightning talks, giving a talk about the site over the years. 15 million unique hits a month - wow. Just, wow.
Tesla gave a talk on editing wikipedia. She does alot of this - learnt a few things about wikipedia, and was rather interesting to watch. However, im unlikely to edit wikipedia, so it hardly applied to me :(.
Neil did a talk on optimisation for google. There\'s alot more that could have been said if there was more time, but 5 minutes is really short for such a topic. Would have liked to have seen more of that one.
Well, now ive been asked to do a talk on setting up a media centre on Linux. How am I going to cram all that into 5 minutes? Theres compiling the correct kernel modules, installing the player, setting up recording schedules - thats just for getting the TV section to work. Maybe they shouldnt be lighting talks - more like snail talks. Although then comes the problem of whether 15 or more people will give a talk - would take all day!
After the talk we all walked down to Earnest Willows Bar. Spent it talking about setting up a network, burning CD's etc, to Brent. Im really getting the urge to make a setup program for a complicated task - perhaps an all-out configuration of apache, mysql, and php, when compiled from scratch? Maybe.