Richard A Steenbergen wrote: >> We might also want to invest in a timer that moves from green/yellow/red >> based on the alloted time. I noticed that some people were held to a >> rock solid standard, others weren't. It's distracting when the speaker >> gets verbal time warnings(not anyones fault, it just is). Time ticks are >> needed, but there's a better way to do it, methinks. > > Wholeheartedly agreed. Even a $5 alarm clock with a big LCD on the stage > would be an major improvement, it's difficult to tell how you're doing for > time or if you should speed things up or slow things down when you're in > the middle of a presentation.
When I mc part of the program, I have a powerpoint slide deck with 10 5 and 1 minute markers which I place in the plane of view of the speaker at the appropriate moments. Not sure if the lightning talks speakers appreciate that but monday 12:00-13:00 ran smoothly. _______________________________________________ Nanog-futures mailing list Nanog-futures@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog-futures
