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Find 4-5 lightning speakers #51

Closed thatbettina closed 8 years ago

thatbettina commented 8 years ago

Speakers to invite with potential topics:

Malwine commented 8 years ago

Idea: Somebody from the learning group could talk: Ariane or Franziska?

vsmart commented 8 years ago

@Malwine I think that's covered by the first bullet point :) (Tamara is in the learning group - we should ask Ariane too).

Malwine commented 8 years ago

@vsmart True. :neckbeard: :trollface:

thatbettina commented 8 years ago

I'll ask the project group on Wednesday when I show up there.

Anyone got the contact info for Johannes so that I can ask him if he'd like to give the same lightning talk again?

vsmart commented 8 years ago

He will probably be at the project group too. If not, he is on the clojure dojo slack.

thatbettina commented 8 years ago

Update on lightning talks: Ariane and Julia will give a lightning talk about the project group. And Johannes will give his lightning talk from ClojureBridge 1 again. Maybe I should stop by at the beginning of the coaches' training and pitch for more lightning talks?

plexus commented 8 years ago

Several coaches proposed a lightning talk on their signup form

just pick the ones you want and contact them directly.

thatbettina commented 8 years ago

@plexus Thanks! I have to make sure my old password for the orga account is still correct.

Is "Threading macros/ higher order functions" a topic that also beginners will understand?

thatbettina commented 8 years ago

I'm thinking we each put stars next to talks we think would be cool, because I can realistically invite 3 out of 6 to talk since we have 2 other lightning talks already.

plexus commented 8 years ago

Is "Threading macros/ higher order functions" a topic that also beginners will understand?

Threading macros: yes, higher order functions: probably not

vsmart commented 8 years ago

To be honest all of those sound too technical to me. If I was a complete beginner I think that would confuse/intimidate more than inspire&refresh which in my mind is the intention of the lightning talks. Maybe @jellea or someone else would like to do 10 cool things with clojure or something similar again? I think that worked well.

plexus commented 8 years ago

"Making a static website with Clojure" sounds like a simple and practical topic, as in: something they can actually try at home. Although I don't know what the tools are or how complex it is. That was @martinklepsch topic so maybe he can elaborate :)

martinklepsch commented 8 years ago

The idea was to give a short intro to Perun ( https://github.com/hashobject/perun) a static site generator based on Boot (that however won't be the focus :).

I also think static sites are a nice intro topic and would be happy to come up with a talk/written guide that people can follow up on later. On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 at 22:32, Arne Brasseur notifications@github.com wrote:

"Making a static website with Clojure" sounds like a simple and practical topic, as in: something they can actually try at home. Although I don't know what the tools are or how complex it is. That was @martinklepsch https://github.com/martinklepsch topic so maybe he can elaborate :)

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thatbettina commented 8 years ago

@vsmart I kinda also had the impression that these talks were too technical in the middle of a long day of lots of learning with the exception of

The functional programming and (music?) composition I thought might be fun with demos. The moral character one sounds kinda philosophical. And the static website with Clojure sounds like something a learner could do after our workshop, like here's what's next -- and you could come to our learners' group if you need help.

@martinklepsch Do you think that your topic would be something the learners could try to do by themselves after the workshop?

martinklepsch commented 8 years ago

@thatbettina If learners have some basic understanding of HTML/CSS I'm sure they could follow it after the workshop. I'll try to prepare a little repo/instruction thing people can work with after the workshop.