This 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 idea for "Virtual Lightning Talks" ad-hoc, first- an occasional online event come-first-served basis on the day of the event. The lightning talksare 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. The basic idea: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.
* Once “Virtual Lightning Talks” replicates this conference activity online in a monthvirtual 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, 10 talks per dayweb browser, 5command-minutes per talk plus a 30-second screenline shell, or any other application that can be shown on the desktop. Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks is using [https:/sound test/www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/ Google Hangouts].* Use an online conferencing tool (LYRASIS has a subscription to Viewers can watch the event streamed live via [httphttps://www.sabagoogle.com/saba-people-systems+/collaboration-suitelearnmore/saba-centrahangouts/onair.aspx Saba Centrahtml Google Hangouts On Air]). The talks are recorded for later viewing. == Presenter Guidelines =='''Technical Requirements''': Java basedGoogle+ account plus the [https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin Google Hangouts browser plugin]. In addition, so it should be crossthe presentations will use Voice-platform for Linux, Macover-IP (VoIP), Windows so you must have a microphone to present (need 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.* Would '''At your presentation''': The ''em cee'' will give you full control of the presentation software, and you'll be based on desktop able to [https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1660627?hl=en&ref_topic=3008152 share your full screen sharing or just a window] with the participants -- share they will see what you see on your slidesscreen. Audio tones will cue you as to how much time you have left: five tones is five minutes left, your web browserfour tones is four minutes left, your shell windowand so forth. Two quick high-pitched tones means you have thirty seconds, whateverand a long high-pitched tone means that time is up. * Questions for the speaker go You may want to run you own countdown timer to keep track of time as well. == Virtual Lightning Talks #3 -- Fall 2013 == ''Postponed until Fall 2013; exact date to be published later.'' Presenters can come in 30 minutes early to test the conferencing tool's chat windowenvironment. Side comments (Note: the Google Hangout event is set to start at 1:00pm; the 30 minute difference between the Hangout start time and snark go the actual start time is to give presenters a chance to come in and test the IRC channelHangout environment.)* Speaker would be reminded of their time by audio tonesNotable differences from Virtual Lightning Talks #2: one each minute * Presenters will have 6 minutes (plus a little bit extra at the beginning to account for the first three start tones) rather than 5 minutes, one every * The Hangout will open 30 seconds until 30 seconds minutes before the official start time to give presenters a chance to test the environment === Presenter Signup ==={| cellpadding="5" |- style="text-align: left, then one every 10 seconds, ending with an appropriate gong;"! # !! Name !! Email Address !! Topic|-like sound| 1 || || || |- | 2 || || || |-| 3 || || || |- | 4 || || |||-| 5 || || || |- | 6 || || |||-| 7 || || || |- | 8 || || |||} == Virtual Lightning Talks #2 -- April 3, 2013 ==Screencasts of individual sessions saved to the Internet Archive are linked below.* Recording talks {| cellpadding="5" |- style="text-align: left;"! Name !! Email Address !! Topic|-| Terry Brady || twb27@georgetown.edu || [https://archive.org/details/Code4LibLightningTalksApr2013TerryBrady File Analyzer and archiving them can be really helpful Metadata Harvester]<br /> [https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer/ Code] [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Sq2gqGm58DeuzSTigEofGGci_szqo5rwctgqER2HOKo/edit?usp=sharing Slides]|- | Misty De Meo || misty.de.meo@museumforhumanrights.ca || [https://archive.org/details/Code4LibLightningTalksApr2013MistyDeMeo Transitioning a legacy thesaurus to SKOS/RDF]<br />|- | Roy Tennant || tennantr@oclc.org || [https://archive.org/details/Code4LibLightningTalksApr2013RoyTennant Under the Hood of Hadoop Processing at OCLC Research]<br /> for those who aren't able background see [http://hangingtogether.org/index.php?s=adventures+in+hadoop Adventures in Hadoop]|-| Kate Kosturski || librariankate7578@gmail.com || [https://archive.org/details/Code4LibLightningTalksApr2013KateKosturski How I Taught Myself Drupal In a Weekend (And You Can Too!)]<br />|} == Virtual Lightning Talks #1 -- April 29, 2011 ==Screencasts of individual sessions saved to attendthe Internet Archive are linked below. {| cellpadding="5" |- style="text-align: left;"! Name !! Email Address !! Topic|-| Edward M. Corrado || ecorrado@binghamton.edu || [http://www.archive.org/details/CodaboxUsingE-printsForASmallScalePersonalRepository CodaBox: Using E-Prints for a small scale personal repository]|- | Luciano Ramalho || luciano.ramalho@bireme.org || [http://www.archive.org/details/Marc-dmAJavascriptApiForIndexingMarc-jsonRecordsInCouchdb MARC-DM: a JavaScript API for indexing MARC-JSON records in CouchDB]|-| Michael Appleby, Youn Noh || michael.appleby@yale.edu, youn.noh@yale.edu || [http://www.archive.org/details/ExtendingVufindForCross-collectionSearch Extending VuFind for cross-collection search] |- | Jay Luker || jluker@cfa.harvard.edu || [http://www.archive.org/details/ExtendingSolrsDefaultSimilarityScoringForLongerFulltextDocuments Extending Solr's default Similarity scoring for longer, fulltext documents]|}
