> On Sep 2, 2015, at 8:50 AM, Ned Batchelder <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 9/2/15 12:17 AM, Dan Stromberg wrote: >> Hi folks. >> >> What are people's experiences with doing lightning talks at a meetup? >> >> I guess the thing that concerns me the most is setting up a half dozen >> laptops on a projector they've never been hooked up to before. >> >> Do people do a "designated laptop" for the talks, and ask presenters to >> bring their slides on a USB flash drive? >> >> Also, what's a good duration? Maybe targeting 5-10 minutes? >> >> Thanks.; >> > > For a local user group, I don't find much need to be strict about time. > About using a shared laptop, there's a trade-off: I'm surprised at how many > people are completely baffled by using a machine with a different operating > system than they are used to. Sometimes it's just better to spend the 30 > seconds up front to let them use their own machine, and then they can present > smoothly from a laptop they are used to.
Yes, the only time I encourage the use of a shared laptop is if the presenter can’t make their system work with the projector. That’s unusual, but it does come up from time to time. > > Also, as someone else mentioned, the laptop-switch time can be used for Q+A > by the previous speaker. In Atlanta, we use the time to let the wait-staff offer a round of refills. :-) Doug _______________________________________________ Group-Organizers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers
