[Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Shrikant Giridhar
<shrikantgiridhar at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is an issue primarily with lightning talks. By their very nature,
> lightning talks assume that you are up to speed in the topic the speaker
> intends to talk about. There is little to no time for review or to
> build up to the main issue the speaker wants to highlight.

+1

[...]

> I feel novice
> speakers can make use of the shorter format to hone their skills and
> then 'graduate' to the longer ones when they're comfortable enough.

This is precisely what I was talking about well. For people who want
to graduate, having the _option_ of delivering a full length talk is a
good thing. The point here was not to abolish lightning talks in
favour of full length but to augment it.

> This doesn't sound a strong enough reason against the longer format.
>
> Plus, this largely depends on how you define 'full length' talks. A talk
> lasting 20-25 minutes is not that longer than a 10-15 minute talk and
> they seem very effective (TED Talks are 18 minutes in duration but they
> abstract away all the technical details).
>
> I agree, however, that full length talks demand more conscious attention
> than the 10 minute ones we have now. But I tend to see that as a good
> thing. I don't know how many agree. :-)

+1

[...]

> This is an issue and one that we can work around by regulating the
> duration of the talks. I think starting off with a middle ground of
> 20-25 minute talks which are carefully chosen could be a viable option.

Agree about the time length. 20-25 min talks are a good place to start
compared to the older 45 min talks. We're ideally sacrificing 1 more
lightning talk for a full length talk. Doable IMO

> One talk per meetup seems very reasonable to me. Perhaps prospective
> speakers could put up their proposals and we could have a vote? Shrayas'
> proposal seems doable. I think we can start there.

I vote for @gaurav's Slack meeting for finalizing the topic. Helps
with community building also.

> Just my 2 cents. Although, at almost a hundred lines this is starting to
> look more like weighing in with a dollar. :-)

HAHA. More than a dollar if you ask me. Great points I should say