LibrePlanet: Conference/2014/Lightning Talks

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10:55 - 12:35 on Saturday, 3/22 | Room 32-144 | Facilitator: Donald Robertson

Lightning talks are five-minute presentations given by conference attendees on free software topics they're passionate about.

If you would like to give a talk, please add a title, short description and (optionally) your name to the time slot you'd like below. You'll also be able to sign up at the conference.

Please make sure your lightning talks are about free software-related issues and projects, and don't advocate proprietary software or Services as a Software Substitute (SaaSS). There are many conferences focused on "open source," but we're proud that people come to LibrePlanet to be part of the free software movement. In your presentations, please use the term "free software" rather than "open source" to help us keep LibrePlanet focused on computer user freedom as an ethical social movement. We appreciate it, and your audience will too.

You're welcome to bring a slide deck, as long as it has no more than 15 slides and works without requiring proprietary software. We recommend PDF or the .odp format readable by LibreOffice Impress. If you are using slides, please bring them to the lightning talk facilitator before you plan to talk, to save time during the presentations. The lightning talks won't be streamed. If you'd like to suggest a topic, but not necessarily give a talk, you're welcome to make a suggestion on the Discussion area for this page.

Sign up!

To sign up, please sign in to this wiki or make an account with the links in the upper right of this Web page, then click Edit and add you talk title and your name (optional) to an unclaimed time slot.

Our tips for an awesome lightning talk:

• Be selective as possible with what you cover. (In our experience, a 5-minute talk cannot cover what a 15-minute talk covers and still be effective.)
• Use large, reader friendly font for all your slides.
• Do not visually overload your slides.

Session 1: 10:55 - 11:40

• 10:55 - 11:10: Introductions, giving slides to facilitator

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We may not have time for more than five talks in the first session, but feel free to add more, in case we do.

Session 2: 11:50 - 12:35

• Talk 1 title:
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We may not have time for more than six talks in the second session, but feel free to add more, in case we do.

• 12:25 - 12:35: Wrap up