A clarification to the Lightning Talk process for NANOG 39: Lightning talks will be presented in two sessions during this meeting, three talks on Monday and three on Wednesday. To have your talk considered for both sessions, please have your submission in by 5:00pm EST today. Talks submitted by 5:00pm EST Tuesday will be considered for the Wednesday session. Steve Feldman PC Chair On Feb 1, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Steve Feldman wrote:
We have reserved one hour of the NANOG 39 agenda for "Lightning Talks".
A lightning talk is a very short presentation or speech by any attendee on any topic relevant to the NANOG audience. These are limited to ten minutes; this will be strictly enforced.
If you have a topic that's timely, interesting, or even a crackpot idea you want to share, we encourage you to consider presenting it.
The Program Committee will decide which submissions are relevant (using criteria based on the NANOG mailing list AUP) and choose the best six to be presented.
Use of slides is optional. All slides must be in PDF or Powerpoint format, and will be loaded in advance onto the speaker laptop on the podium.
There is a good overview of the use of lightning talks at the Perl conference at http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/07/30/lightningtalk.html.
Although their format is slightly different, many of their ideas will apply here.
To submit a lightning talk proposal for NANOG 39, go to http://www.nanogpc.org/lightning/
See you in Toronto! Steve Feldman PC Chair