[Noisebridge-discuss] Musings

[aestetix aestetix]

I've chatted with a few people and tried to flesh this out more.

I like the idea of five minutes for two reasons: it's a good way for new
speakers to help counter speaking anxiety (and get their name on a speaker
list) without giving a huge long talk, and it's also experience for things
like job interviews and product presentations. SF is a huge startup culture,
and if you can't explain what your startup is doing within five minutes,
nobody will listen.

Mitch: it could definitely be a monthly event. Consider it something like
open mike night at noisebridge. I'm also hoping it could lead to a lot of
diversity in projects, because if someone has an idea they're thinking about
doing, they can do a brief talk on it and get community support.

daniela: "open to the general public" is kind of tricky. My thought was we
could have a single night where a bunch of talks happen, rather than some
impromptu lecture that you miss if you come five minutes late. If we did
something like videotaping the talks, I could see that some speakers would
want to opt out of that.

jim: that's a similar vein, but a jellybean talk sounds more like an
introductory segway into the main talk, whereas these would be completely
random interests people have in no particular order (unless someone
requested it). The advantage of a five minute talk is that if you miss it,
you can find the speaker, and they can tell you what the talk was about in
five minutes :)

aestetix

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:25 PM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:

>
>   i've got a similar tho't: a "jellybean" talk
> that precedes a main talk.
>   for example, a jellybean talk about using solder
> suckers that precedes some electronic-oriented
> workshop or lab or other event.
>   another example, a jellybean talk about some
> particular commonly used idiom in spanish that
> precedes the main spanish seminar....
>   jellybean talks, in my view, necessarily
> have someone other than the presenter or
> coordinator of the main talk and take up from
> five to fifteen minutes. they're a reward for
> getting there on time and they allow a little
> slop for those stuck in traffic or otherwise
> delayed in getting to the event. (we do like
> starting events on time, yes?)
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 21:33 -0800, aestetix aestetix wrote:
> > Greetings, all...
> >
> > Quick question. I know there are "formal" labs and lectures that go on
> > at scheduled times at noisebridge, but would anyone be open to having
> > "lightning lectures"? I'm kind of lifting this from the CCC format,
> > but I think a lot of people are working on little projects, or maybe
> > want to give a 5 to 10 minute talk on an idea they've been playing
> > around with, and don't want to devote a longer session to it. I
> > suggest this because I'm kicking around a few things I may want to
> > present.
> >
> > I apologize if this has already come up.... if not, what do you think?
> >
> > aestetix
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