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

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

Koen Martens wrote:
> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 12:07:44PM -0400, Mario Gonzalez wrote:
>>  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.

You should basically count 6 minutes per lightning talk to allow for the
time for someone to get off the stage & get the next person up. So more
like 15 or 16 talks.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org