[OKC JUG] November Lightning Talks

Les Martin martin.les at gmail.com
Thu Nov 5 09:03:16 PST 2009


Oh and I've decided to do my talk on Wicket.

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On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Les Martin <martin.les at gmail.com> wrote:

> What time tomorrow do you want the slides? What format should they be in?
> (odf, ppt, pdf)?
>
> thanks.
>
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> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Jason Lee <jason at steeplesoft.com> wrote:
>
>> We're only a week away from our lightning talks.  Here is the current line
>> up (note that participants can and order almost certainly will change):
>>
>> Brent - JSF 2
>> Derek - ???
>> Shane Kempton - Software Bill of Rights
>> Ryan - Biography of Duke
>> Mitch Blevins - Automatic test data generation
>> Grzegorz Bugaj - JSFConsole
>> Ash - Google App Engine
>> Scott - JavaFX
>> Chad Gorshing - How to write untestable code
>> Les Martin - ???
>> Forrest Humphrey - Mule ESB
>>
>> If you'd like to get on the list, we can probably squeeze in a couple
>> more.  For those already committed, please remember that the deadline for
>> slides is this Friday, as we need time to get the logistics worked out for
>> the actual presentation.
>>
>>
>> On Oct 30, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Jason Lee wrote:
>>
>>  As we mentioned at the meeting last week, November's meetings will
>>> consist of several lightning talks.  If you've even been to OpenBeta, then
>>> you know what these are.  For those that don't, the speaker gets only 5
>>> minutes and 20 slides, with 15 seconds per slide.  Every 15 seconds, the
>>> slides advance, whether or not the speaker is ready.  It may sound a bit
>>> chaotic, but they really are pretty effective, and really, really fun. :)
>>>
>>> We'd like to have as many as possible participate, and we'd like it to be
>>> as many non-regular speakers as possible, so that means you.  Five minutes
>>> is an incredibly *short* amount of time to speak on a topic, and I'm
>>> guessing if you had a speech class in college (or high school, or even Toast
>>> Masters!) then you've done at least 5 minutes.  If you need help planning
>>> your talk or slides, there are plenty of people at the JUG who would be
>>> willing to help out.
>>>
>>> If you're interested in speaking, please reply to the list with the topic
>>> you'd like to cover.  If you've always wanted to speak at the JUG but didn't
>>> feel comfortable with the whole hour, now's your chance to get your feet
>>> wet!
>>>
>>> Jason Lee, SCJP
>>> President, Oklahoma City Java Users Group
>>> Senior Java Developer, Sun Microsystems
>>> http://blogs.steeplesoft.com
>>>
>>>
>> Jason Lee, SCJP
>> President, Oklahoma City Java Users Group
>> Senior Java Developer, Sun Microsystems
>> http://blogs.steeplesoft.com
>>
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