On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Alexandre Quessy wrote:
== "off" presentations ==
There is something I really liked in a convetion about cooperative web usages I attending this summer in Brest. It was "off" presentations. You could choose a period in between the other presentations and write down the location and topic of your "off" presentation. The periods were something like breakfast, lunch and just before the dinner.
A concept much similar to this, is called the Lightning Talks. In this case, some extended timespan (two hours straight) is reserved for presentations of 5-10 minutes each. Submission rules are easier and you can submit talks until either the schedule is full or the schedule is printed. Well, I don't really know, but that's the impression that I had. That concept has been part of the YAPC (Perl) conferences, so I suppose that you may be able to find information about the concept there.
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