interns' lightning talks at GUADEC

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com>]

Dear interns,

We have an interns' lightning talks session scheduled at GUADEC for 16:20-18:00 on Sunday, August 4. It's 
organized by me and Christophe Fergeau (cfergeau gmail com), so please send all the responses, questions, and 
slides to us.

You will have 3 minutes for your presentation, and all the slides will be compiled in one presentation file 
ahead of time. Please send your slides to us in the .pdf format by Monday, July 29. (If you are using 
LibreOffice, you can use File -> Export as PDF... to convert slides to .pdf format.) You can have up to 3 
slides with text/screenshots, and optionally up to 2 more slides with screenshots and only a short caption. 
Please include your name, project, and program on the first slide. Please practice to be sure you can 
complete your presentation in under 3 minutes.

Last year, the interns really enjoyed having an opportunity to speak about their projects for a few minutes 
after attending other people's presentations for several days. I'm sure you will feel the same way, even if 
you have never spoken publicly before. It will be the friendliest and most supportive environment to make 
your speaking debut, we promise . English is a second language for the majority of GUADEC attendees, so 
please don't be concerned about your spoken English either. Christophe and I will be happy to help you 
rehearse your talk at some earlier point during GUADEC or you can practice your talk with one of the other 
interns.

We are aware of the following interns planning to attend GUADEC. Please let us know if your plans changed or 
if you are attending, but we are missing you on the list.

GSoC
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1) Aakash Goenka
2) Alessandro Campagni
3) Anton Belka
4) Bogdan Ciobanu
5) Carlos Soriano
6) Eslam Mostafa
7) Evgeny Bobkin
8) Joris Valette
9) Kalev Lember
10) Lavanya Gunasekar
11) Magdalen Berns
12) Marcos Chavarría Teijeiro
13) Mathieu Duponchelle
14) Mattias Bengtsson
15) Meg Ford
16) Parin Porecha
17) Rafael Fonseca
18) Richard Schwarting
19) Sam Bull
20) Sindhu Sundar
21) Valentín Barros
22) Victor Toso

OPW
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1) Aruna Sankaranarayanan
2) Flavia Weisghizzi
3) Pooja Saxena
4) Satabdi Das
5) Saumya Dwivedi
6) Saumya Pathak
7) Shivani Poddar
8) Tiffany Yau

Sindhu, because you have also completed an OPW internship this year, please cover what you did during that 
internship during your presentation too. If you will find it useful, you can use additional 2 minutes and 
additional 3 slides for your presentation.

The core days schedule can be seen at https://www.guadec.org/schedule and the hackfest and BoF days schedule 
is being planned out on https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2013/BOFs . BoF stands for "Birds of a Feather", as in 
a saying "birds of a feather flock together", which means a working discussion about a specific topic of 
interest in a group of people who share that interest. Please take a look at the existing schedule and talk 
to your mentor about adding a hackfest or a BoF relevant to the project you are working on to the list, if 
it's not already on the list. At the very least, please plan to have some time for a hacking session with 
your mentor.

We'll also plan on grabbing tables together for lunch on Thursday, August 1, the first day of GUADEC.

If you have not yet registered for the conference, please do so soon!

Thanks,
Marina