Re: [guadec-list] Fwd: Gnome Design-Thinking Workshop and Lightning Talk

[Koen Martens <gmc sonologic nl>]

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 12:07:44PM -0400, Mario Gonzalez wrote:
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Koen Martens <gmc sonologic nl> wrote:
> >
> > As for the rest, we should probably send out a call for lightning talks asap,
> > to collect proposals. I don't think we need to have a selection process, as
> > with lightning talks it's basically 'anything goes'. As long as it is not just
> > commercial product placement or promotion for racist behaviour or something
> > like that :)
> >
> 
>  My concern is in 60 minutes we can assure 11 or 12 LTs to be
> presented (5 minutes each), so if we receive 15 proposals or more,
> what can do with them? Put them in the "bench" awaiting for some extra
> time or some other stuff?

We currently have 2 slots of 45 minutes for lightning talks, so that's
90 minutes or 18 talks basically. There is some spare room in case we
receive considerably more.

>  I we wouldn't have any selection process, then the chosen LTs are the
> ones that arrive first right?

I think we should just see how many lightning talks get proposed anyway,
and go from there. If we get 50 or 100, we need to select indeed, and then
I think its mostly on relevance and 'hotness'. I doubt that we'll get that
many though.

Gr,

Koen