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Lightning talks at LibrePlanet

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Saturday, March 23, 2019, from 15:25 to 16:10 | Room 32-123 | 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, a short description, and (optionally) your name

to the list below. You'll also be able to sign up at the conference, or just walk up, if there is time remaining.

  • Please make sure your lightning talks are about free

software–related issues and projects, and don't advocate proprietary software or [https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html Services as a Software Substitute (SaaSS)]. There are many conferences focused on "open source," and 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 [https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html "open source"], to help us keep LibrePlanet focused on computer-user freedom. We appreciate it, and your audience will too.

  • To ensure a conference that's safe and fun for everyone, we take our

Safe Space Policy very seriously. We'd appreciate it if you looked it over before planning your presentation.

  • Please **e-mail** any slides you might want to show via an FSF-owned

laptop during your talk to membership@fsf.org by March 15 and, as a precautionary measure, bring them on a USB drive to your talk. Please make sure they are in **PDF** format, not LibreOffice (and, of course, please definitely not in PowerPoint).

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.

Our tips for an awesome lightning talk:

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

Talk Signup List

  • [your name here]
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