very cool.<\/p>\n
Anyone who wants can give a talk (have to sign up beforehand). Talk is <= 5 minutes. There are two podiums, one\u00a0done the active presentation and\u00a0the other\u00a0setting up for the next talk. Most have slides. MC controls introduces speakers and enforces the rules rigidly. Sound\/tech guys do a good job managing the switching process.<\/p>\n
Also works because the audience are the type of people who are interested in ‘content above all’ and are quite willing to accept presentation glitches and nervy\/geek personas.<\/p>\n
There’s no limit to the number of talks, they just go on until everyone has had enough…. i.e. people vote with their feet.<\/p>\n
Right now there are at least 500 people listening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
very cool. Anyone who wants can give a talk (have to sign up beforehand). Talk is <= 5 minutes. There are two podiums, one\u00a0done the active presentation and\u00a0the other\u00a0setting up for the next talk. Most…<\/p>\n