Lightning Talks

Lightning talks are short and efficiently run talks that are useful for developers.

Joe Mathes (jmathes at gmail dot com) is the organizer for the talks at Silicon Valley events.

What Lightning Talks aren't:

• They're not a place to pitch your company
• They're not a place to demo your product you think we should all buy
• They're not a place for recruiting

An exception: You may present a new project that was fully coded during the devhouse in question.  

Lightning talks should be interesting to our audience: a bunch of bright people who like to make or break stuff.

Lightning talks must fit the following requirements:

1. Talks must be 5 minutes
1. You will be timed, please watch your timer for hand signals: 4 fingers = 4 minutes remaining, etc
2. You will be mocked, booed and humiliated if you go over your time (not really).
2. If your talk has slides, they must be in an open format and sent to the organizer at least 2 hours before your talk.

   Acceptable formats are:

1. Another page on the wiki (ideal!)
2. PDF
3. Flash
4. HTML
5. Text
3. Slides are best if they're online somewhere so we can link to them for posterity 
4. Talks must be approved by the organizer at least 2 hours prior to the start of the Lightning Talks.

You can the slides from some of the past SuperHappyDevHouses, including 34, 33, 32, and 31.

Running a devhouse?  Run your own lightning talks!