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 webinar platform supports desktop sharing by Mac, Linux, and Windows servers. Centra offers Hangout will open 30 minutes before the official start time to options to join give presenters a conference: desktop-based and browser-based. To share your desktop, you ''must join the conference using chance to test the desktop software''.environment
'''Technical Requirements'''=== Presenter Signup ==={| cellpadding="5" |- style="text-align: left;"! # !! Name !! Email Address !! Topic|-| 1 || || || |- | 2 || || || |-| 3 || || || Minimum configurations for Mac, Linux and Windows are on the [http://mt205.centra.com/SiteRoots/main/SystemCheck/SystemCheck.jhtml system test] page. |- | 4 || || |||-| 5 || || || In addition, the conference will use Voice|-over| 6 || || |||-| 7 || || || |-IP (VoIP), so you must have a microphone to present (and preferably a headset to eliminate echo).| 8 || || |||}
'''Prior == Virtual Lightning Talks #2 -- April 3, 2013 ==Screencasts of individual sessions saved to the webinar'''Internet Archive are linked below.{| cellpadding="5" |- style="text-align: left;"! Name !! Email Address !! Topic|-| Terry Brady Download and install the Centra desktop software|| twb27@georgetown. edu Versions are available for || [httphttps://mt205archive.centra.comorg/SiteRootsdetails/mainCode4LibLightningTalksApr2013TerryBrady File Analyzer and Metadata Harvester]<br /Install> [https:/macx/setupgithub.jhtml Maccom/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer/ Code], [httphttps://mt205docs.centragoogle.com/SiteRootspresentation/maind/Install1Sq2gqGm58DeuzSTigEofGGci_szqo5rwctgqER2HOKo/linux/setup.jhtml Linuxedit?usp=sharing Slides], and |- | Misty De Meo || misty.de.meo@museumforhumanrights.ca || [httphttps://mt205.centraarchive.comorg/SiteRootsdetails/mainCode4LibLightningTalksApr2013MistyDeMeo Transitioning a legacy thesaurus to SKOS/Install/win32/setup.jhtml WindowsRDF]<br />|- | Roy Tennant || tennantr@oclc. org After installing the client, run || [https://archive.org/details/Code4LibLightningTalksApr2013RoyTennant Under the Hood of Hadoop Processing at OCLC Research]<br /> for background see [http://mt205hangingtogether.centraorg/index.php?s=adventures+in+hadoop Adventures in Hadoop]|-| Kate Kosturski || librariankate7578@gmail.com|| [https:/SiteRoots/mainarchive.org/SystemCheckdetails/SystemCheck.jhtml Centra system testCode4LibLightningTalksApr2013KateKosturski How I Taught Myself Drupal In a Weekend (And You Can Too!)] to verify connectivity.<br />|}
[[Image:Saba== Virtual Lightning Talks #1 -sign-on.png|right|altApril 29, 2011 ==Snapshot of web page highlighting the "Launch on Desktop" button for presenters to use|Use the "Launch on Desktop" button.]]'''At the start Screencasts of the webinar''': Follow the link to the event and enter your e-mail address into the form. You must select "Launch on Desktop" individual sessions saved to open the Centra desktop clientInternet Archive are linked below.
* Your screen resolution must be 1280 by 768 or less{| 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]* If you have more than one screen|- | Luciano Ramalho || luciano.ramalho@bireme.org || [http:/monitor, disable all screens but one/www. archive.org/details/Marc-dmAJavascriptApiForIndexingMarc-jsonRecordsInCouchdb MARC-DM: a JavaScript API for indexing MARC-JSON records in CouchDB]|-| Michael Appleby, Youn Noh (The software will share all of your screens as one large desktop|| michael.appleby@yale.edu, making it hard youn.noh@yale.edu || [http://www.archive.org/details/ExtendingVufindForCross-collectionSearch Extending VuFind for people to followcross-collection search] |- | Jay Luker || jluker@cfa.)harvard.edu || [http://www.archive.org/details/ExtendingSolrsDefaultSimilarityScoringForLongerFulltextDocuments Extending Solr's default Similarity scoring for longer, fulltext documents]|}
