Lightning talks are short and efficiently run talks that are useful for developers.
What Lightning Talks aren't:
- They're not a place to pitch your company
- They're not a place to demo your product you think we should all buy
- They're not a place for recruiting
An exception: You may present a new project that was fully coded during the devhouse in question.
Lightning talks should be interesting to our audience: a bunch of bright people who like to make or break stuff.
Lightning talks must fit the following requirements:
- Talks must be 5 minutes
- you will be timed, please watch your timer for hand signals (4 fingers = 4 minutes, etc)
- If your talk has slides, they must be in an open format. Acceptable formats are
- Another page on the wiki (ideal)
- PDF
- Flash
- HTML
- Text
Check out some of the slides from past SuperHappyDevHouses, including 34, 33, 32, and 31.
Here are some of the best practices for lightning talks, as suggested by other SHDHs.
Lightning Talks at #shdhsg 14 May 2011
- Kiran Joshi and Chris Norris: Mate Value Bump
- Arun Thampi and friend: Watchitlater (Instapaper for video)
- Patrick Haller: One Big File
- Rif Chia: URL Shortener on Diet (demo)
- Cheng Soon: Kowoko
- Lainie Yeoh: Speaking on the design of the logo
- Martin: task manager for open-sTeam
- Khoi & Alex: The Order of Awesomeness
- Luke & Asher: Hacker Places
- Rif Chia again: Miss Startup Facemash
- Jason Ong: PhotoUS
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