[mdlug] lightning talks?

[Aaron Kulkis]

Robert Citek wrote:
> I was browsing the YAPC::NA 2010 site (it's in Columbus, OH, June 21-23):
> 
> http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/
> 
> and noticed they have lightning talks again on the schedule.
> 
> Has mdlug ever had lightning talks for one of its meetings?  If so,
> when are the next lightning talks scheduled?  For more info on
> lightning talks:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Talk

When I go to a conference, I want presentations which explain
things deeply enough that I can get up and running with the
new idea.

The LAST thing I want at a conference is a bunch of 5-minute
presentations which cannot possibly go into a subject any
deeper than the typical article on arstechnica

In other words, as far as I'm concerned, the "Lightning Talk"
is a 25-cent word for a waste of the limited and valuable
space at a conference.