+1 on five minutes. I'd like to do such a talk on Trinidad (I guess it's lightning like ever... w/o slides and box, but beer ;) )
-Matt On 9/6/06, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > Our initial idea was to have short (15-min?) talks about as many podlings as we > can fit in to the timeslot. Tell us what the project is about, who is > involved, why I should download it, etc, etc. You've got 15 minutes to > convince a room full of Apache folks to contribute to your project. Go forth. 15 minutes is way too long. If you can't digest it to 5 minutes their eyes have glazed over, if they aren't excited enough to dig into the project by then you failed to persuade :) Otherwise - great idea! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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