lightning talks

[Dave Pattern]

We're aiming to kick the event off with a couple of "formal"ish 30 minute sessions. After that, we're wanting to have lots of informal 5 minute talks (often referred to as "lightning talks") going on throughout the day. These talks will be entirely optional, so you only need to go to the ones that you think might be interesting.

If you're planning to come along to the event, please read this blog post and have a think about whether there's anything you'd like to give a talk on :-)

[Chris Keene]

OK, I've got an idea for a lightening talk, i left the box on the sign up form blank at the time because i wasn't sure what to do.

I'm thinking about talking about some of the issues i can see around next gen catalogues and the general area of splitting you LMS(ILS) and search interface. e.g. lack of protocols for holdings (don't say z39.50), lack of standards to enable 'borrower functionality' to appear in external systems.

Not strictly 'mashing' but thought some of this stuff might be relevant to those attending.

Chris

[Dave Pattern]

Sounds good to me :-) I think we've got 7 or 8 lightning talks now and I'll start organising them soon.