Wellington
Perl Mongers
Lightning Talk Meeting - February, 2018
The February 2018 meeting will be a combined group: The Linux User Group
& Perl Mongers. It will be a lightning talk meeting and we need
you to be a part of it! Here's how it will work:
- Instead of the usual one or two long talks, we're aiming to have about a
dozen very short talks. Each one will be a maximum of five minutes
long (you don't have to use all five minutes).
- We'd like people to 'sign-up' in advance. Email grant@mclean.net.nz
with your name and talk topic.
- One person can sign up for more than one talk so sign up early and
often.
- Slides are definitely not mandatory, it's probably more important
that you practise what you're going to say.
- If you are going to use slides, you can streamline things by sending your
slide files in advance so they're already available on the presentation PC.
HTML format (will be viewed via Mozilla Firefox), PDF or the OpenOffice.org
'Impress' formats are the most likely to work smoothly.
- You can bring your own laptop and plug it in but if you are able
to send your files in advance then that would probably be a smoother
experience for everyone.
- If you have something that's going to take longer than 5 minutes, great!
You can do that one another evening :-) For this meeting, think of something
that won't take as long.
- Rants are good - it is interesting to listen to someone talking about
something they feel passionate about.
What can you say in five minutes?
Here's a list of ideas stolen from Mark-Jason Dominus' lightning talk
page:
- Why my favorite module is X.
- I want to do cool project X. Does anyone want to help?
- Successful Project: I did project X. It was a success. Here's how you could benefit.
- Failed Project: I did project X. It was a failure, and here's why.
- Perl Heresy: People always say X, but they're wrong. Here's why.
- You All Suck: Here's what is wrong with the Perl community.
- Call to Action: Let's all do more of X / less of X.
- I stopped coming to Perl Mongers meetings because ...
- Wouldn't it be cool if X?
- Someone needs to do X.
- Perl Wish List
- Why X was a mistake.
- Why X looks like a mistake, but isn't.
- What it's like to do X.
- Here's a useful technique that worked.
- Here's a technique I thought would be useful but didn't work.
- Why module X sucks.
- Comparison of modules X and Y.
- We should be paying more attention to X.
- My Favorite Perl Feature
What do I do now?
Email perlmongers@catalyst.net.nz
with your name and talk topic.