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 screen/sound testline shell, or any other application that can be shown on the desktop.* Use an online conferencing tool (LYRASIS has a subscription to Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks is using [httphttps://www.sabagoogle.com/saba-people-systems+/collaboration-suitelearnmore/saba-centra.aspx Saba Centrahangouts/ Google Hangouts]). Java based, so it should be cross-platform for Linux, Mac, Windows (need to test this).* Would be based on desktop screen sharing -- share your slides, your web browser, your shell window, whatever* Questions for Viewers can watch the speaker go in the conferencing tool's chat windowevent streamed live via [https://www. Side comments and snark go in the IRC channelgoogle.* Speaker would be reminded of their time by audio tones: one each minute for the first three minutes, one every 30 seconds until 30 seconds left, then one every 10 seconds, ending with an appropriate gong-like soundcom/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html Google Hangouts On Air].* Recording The talks and archiving them can be really helpful are recorded for those who aren't able to attendlater viewing.
== Presenter Guidelines ==
'''Technical Requirements''': Google+ account plus the [https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin 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 [https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1660627?hl=en&ref_topic=3008152 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 -- Fall 2013 ==
''Postponed until Fall 2013; exact date to be published later.'' 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
The webinar platform supports desktop sharing by Mac, Linux, and Windows servers. Centra offers to options to join a conference=== Presenter Signup ==={| cellpadding="5" |- style="text-align: desktopleft;"! # !! Name !! Email Address !! Topic|-based and browser| 1 || || || |-based. | 2 || || || |-| 3 || || || To share your desktop, you ''must join the conference using the desktop software''.|- | 4 || || |||-| 5 || || || |- | 6 || || |||-| 7 || || || |- | 8 || || |||}
'''Technical Requirements'''== Virtual Lightning Talks #2 -- April 3, 2013 ==Screencasts of individual sessions saved to the Internet Archive are linked below.{| cellpadding="5" |- style="text-align: left;"! Name !! Email Address !! Topic|-| Terry Brady Minimum configurations for Mac, Linux || twb27@georgetown.edu || [https://archive.org/details/Code4LibLightningTalksApr2013TerryBrady File Analyzer and Windows are on the Metadata Harvester]<br /> [httphttps://mt205github.centracom/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer/ Code] [https://docs.google.com/SiteRootspresentation/maind/SystemCheck1Sq2gqGm58DeuzSTigEofGGci_szqo5rwctgqER2HOKo/SystemCheckedit?usp=sharing Slides]|- | Misty De Meo || misty.jhtml system testde.meo@museumforhumanrights.ca || [https://archive.org/details/Code4LibLightningTalksApr2013MistyDeMeo Transitioning a legacy thesaurus to SKOS/RDF] page<br />|- | Roy Tennant || tennantr@oclc. org In addition, || [https://archive.org/details/Code4LibLightningTalksApr2013RoyTennant Under the conference will use VoiceHood of Hadoop Processing at OCLC Research]<br /> for background see [http://hangingtogether.org/index.php?s=adventures+in+hadoop Adventures in Hadoop]|-over-IP (VoIP), so you must have | Kate Kosturski || librariankate7578@gmail.com || [https://archive.org/details/Code4LibLightningTalksApr2013KateKosturski How I Taught Myself Drupal In a microphone to present Weekend (and preferably a headset to eliminate echoAnd You Can Too!).]<br />|}
'''Prior == Virtual Lightning Talks #1 -- April 29, 2011 ==Screencasts of individual sessions saved to the webinar''': Download and install the Centra desktop software. Versions Internet Archive are available for [http://mt205.centra.com/SiteRoots/main/Install/macx/setup.jhtml Mac], [http://mt205.centra.com/SiteRoots/main/Install/linux/setup.jhtml Linux], and [http://mt205.centra.com/SiteRoots/main/Install/win32/setup.jhtml Windows]. After installing the client, run the [http://mt205.centra.com/SiteRoots/main/SystemCheck/SystemCheck.jhtml Centra system test] to verify connectivitylinked below.
[[Image:Saba-sign-on.png|right{|altcellpadding=Snapshot of web page highlighting the "Launch on Desktop5" button for presenters to use|Use the - style="Launch on Desktoptext-align: left;" button! 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]'''At the start of the webinar'''|- | 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 Follow the link to the event and enter your e|| michael.appleby@yale.edu, youn.noh@yale.edu || [http://www.archive.org/details/ExtendingVufindForCross-mail address into the formcollectionSearch Extending VuFind for cross-collection search] |- | Jay Luker || jluker@cfa. harvard.edu You must select "Launch on Desktop" to open the Centra desktop client|| [http://www.archive.org/details/ExtendingSolrsDefaultSimilarityScoringForLongerFulltextDocuments Extending Solr's default Similarity scoring for longer, fulltext documents]|}
