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Lightning Talks were very successful at the JA-Sig Unconference and so we are hosting them at the uCamp. Lightning Talks are short 5 minutes or less talks with or without slides. You discuss a topic of interest to you that you want to share with the community.
How do I give a "lightning talk"?
Mark Fowler's article has advice on effectively structuring lightning talks.
How quick should my Lightning Talk be?
Your lightning talk should last no more than five minutes. A five-minute lightning talk is totally fine. A two-minute lightning talk is totally fine. Your talk should take as long as it needs to take to make a point, and no longer.
Potential Ideas for Lightning Talks
This section is for lightning talks that people are interested in hearing, but for which we don't have a committed presenter yet. If you're planning to give a lightning talk, please move your topic into the "Planned Lightning Talks" section above.
| Topic | Who could give this talk? (You can suggest other people here) |
Who's interested in hearing this talk? Comments? |
|---|---|---|
| Topic idea |
nominated person who could give this talk | anyone who wants to hear the idea |
| Design Patterns | Allison |
Barbara, Paul |
| What is User Research and How to do it? |
Allison, Gary | Paul, Erin |
| Contextual Inquiries vs. Interviews |
Allison, Gary | Muzaffer |
| Hallway User Testing |
Colin |
Muzaffer |
| Quick User Testing for Everyone | Colin, Erin | Paul |
| Intro to Kuali Student Designs |
Tim, Cindy |
Allison, Paul, Erin |
| Intro to uPortal Designs and upcoming ideas |
Gary | Allison, Paul, Erin |
| Designing for small form factors (i.e cell phones) |
Erin | |
| Accessibility checking tools and techniques | Colin | Allison, Paul |
| Support for multiple languages and character sets |
Tim or Wil or Cindy |
|
| Challenges of Rich UI (AJAX) in Portals, i.e. are portals still the right approach? |
Tim or Wil or Cindy | Paul |
| Using GWT as UI framework |
Wil |
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| Coming into a well-established set of projects & finding yourself plunged into a conference | Rachel | Paul and others |