LibrePlanet: Conference/2023/Lightning Talks

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 lightning talk at LibrePlanet 2023: Charting the Course

Please list a title, a short description, and (optionally) your name to the list below.

 * TITLE, SHORT DESCRIPTION, NAME
 * ...

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 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," 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 "open source", to help us keep LibrePlanet focused on computer-user freedom. We appreciate it, and your audience will too.

You can choose whether you want to have your lightning talk in person or online.

For remote lightning talks: Submit a recorded lightning talk by March 3

Record a 5-minute max. video. If you can't reduce your talk to 5 minutes, do not hesitate to upload. We may still find a spot for it but we can't guarantee it.

Upload your video for LibrePlanet 2023: Charting the Course by following the upload instructions.

Please upload your video by March 3 the latest. If you didn't make this deadline, do not hesitate to upload, who knows, we may still find a spot for it but we can't guarantee it.

The lightning talks will be streamed and posted online.

For in-person lightning talks: Submit your slides for an in-person lightning talk by March 7

Upload your slides for LibrePlanet 2023: Charting the Course by following the upload instructions and uploading slides in a free format.
Please make sure your slides are in PDF format, not LibreOffice (and, of course, please definitely not in PowerPoint).
Please upload your slides by March 7 the latest. If you didn't make this deadline, do not hesitate to upload, who knows, we may still find a spot for it but we can't guarantee it.
As a precautionary measure, also bring your slides on a USB drive to your talk.

Questions?

If you have questions, please send an email with your question to campaigns at fsf dot org.

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.

Watch past LibrePlanet Lightning talks for inspiration:

This page was a featured resource in October 2022.

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