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| − | One of the highlights of the Code4Lib annual meeting is the “lightning talk” | + | One of the highlights of the Code4Lib annual meeting is the “lightning talk” round: a fast-paced talk on a topic of the presenter’s choosing. |
| + | During the meeting they are scheduled on an ad-hoc, first-come-first-served basis on the day of the event. | ||
| + | The lightning talks are an opportunity to provide a platform for someone who is just getting started with public speaking, who wants to ask a question or invite people to help with a project, or for someone to boast about something he or she did or tell a short cautionary story. | ||
| + | These things are all interesting and worth talking about, but there might not be enough to say about them to fill up a full session timeslot. | ||
| − | “Virtual Lightning Talks” replicates this conference activity online in a virtual meeting environment. Each one-hour block consists of | + | “Virtual Lightning Talks” replicates this conference activity online in a virtual meeting environment. |
| + | Each one-hour block consists of up to eight six-minute sessions. | ||
| + | Presenters show their work by sharing their entire desktop; the presentation can consist of slides, web browser, command-line shell, or any other application that can be shown on the desktop. | ||
Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks is using [https://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/ Google Hangouts]. | Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks is using [https://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/ Google Hangouts]. | ||
Viewers can watch the event streamed live via [https://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html Google Hangouts On Air]. | Viewers can watch the event streamed live via [https://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html Google Hangouts On Air]. | ||
| − | The talks | + | The talks are recorded for later viewing. |
== Presenter Guidelines == | == Presenter Guidelines == | ||
Revision as of 21:02, 9 April 2013
One of the highlights of the Code4Lib annual meeting is the “lightning talk” round: a fast-paced talk on a topic of the presenter’s choosing. During the meeting they are scheduled on an ad-hoc, first-come-first-served basis on the day of the event. The lightning talks are an opportunity to provide a platform for someone who is just getting started with public speaking, who wants to ask a question or invite people to help with a project, or for someone to boast about something he or she did or tell a short cautionary story. These things are all interesting and worth talking about, but there might not be enough to say about them to fill up a full session timeslot.
“Virtual Lightning Talks” replicates this conference activity online in a virtual meeting environment. Each one-hour block consists of up to eight six-minute sessions. Presenters show their work by sharing their entire desktop; the presentation can consist of slides, web browser, command-line shell, or any other application that can be shown on the desktop.
Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks is using Google Hangouts. Viewers can watch the event streamed live via Google Hangouts On Air. The talks are recorded for later viewing.
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Presenter Guidelines
Technical Requirements: Google+ account plus the Google Hangouts browser plugin. In addition, the presentations will use Voice-over-IP (VoIP), so you must have a microphone to present (and preferably a headset to eliminate echo).
At the start of the hangout: Presenters will be invited to the hangout. The hangout will open 30 minutes prior to the scheduled start time. If you want to have extra time to test the system and get ready for your presentation, sign in during this 30 minute window.
At your presentation: The em cee will give you full control of the presentation software, and you'll be able to share your full screen or just a window with the participants -- they will see what you see on your screen. Audio tones will cue you as to how much time you have left: five tones is five minutes left, four tones is four minutes left, and so forth. T wo quick high-pitched tones means you have thirty seconds, and a long high-pitched tone means that time is up. You may want to run you own countdown timer to keep track of time as well.
Virtual Lightning Talks #3 -- June 14, 2013
Friday, June 14, 2013 at 1:30pm Eastern U.S. time (see this time in your local timezone). Presenters can come in 30 minutes early to test the environment. (Note: the Google Hangout event is set to start at 1:00pm; the 30 minute difference between the Hangout start time and the actual start time is to give presenters a chance to come in and test the Hangout environment.)
Notable differences from Virtual Lightning Talks #2:
- Presenters will have 6 minutes (plus a little bit extra at the beginning to account for the start tones) rather than 5 minutes
- The Hangout will open 30 minutes before the official start time to give presenters a chance to test the environment
Presenter Signup
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Virtual Lightning Talks #2 -- April 3, 2013
Screencasts of individual sessions saved to the Internet Archive are linked below.
| Name | Email Address | Topic |
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| Terry Brady | twb27@georgetown.edu | File Analyzer and Metadata Harvester Code Slides |
| Misty De Meo | misty.de.meo@museumforhumanrights.ca | Transitioning a legacy thesaurus to SKOS/RDF |
| Roy Tennant | tennantr@oclc.org | Under the Hood of Hadoop Processing at OCLC Research for background see Adventures in Hadoop |
| Kate Kosturski | librariankate7578@gmail.com | How I Taught Myself Drupal In a Weekend (And You Can Too!) |
Virtual Lightning Talks #1 -- April 29, 2011
Screencasts of individual sessions saved to the Internet Archive are linked below.
| Name | Email Address | Topic |
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| Edward M. Corrado | ecorrado@binghamton.edu | CodaBox: Using E-Prints for a small scale personal repository |
| Luciano Ramalho | luciano.ramalho@bireme.org | MARC-DM: a JavaScript API for indexing MARC-JSON records in CouchDB |
| Michael Appleby, Youn Noh | michael.appleby@yale.edu, youn.noh@yale.edu | Extending VuFind for cross-collection search |
| Jay Luker | jluker@cfa.harvard.edu | Extending Solr's default Similarity scoring for longer, fulltext documents |
