Lightning Talks

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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
Coming into a well-established set of projects & finding yourself plunged into a conference	Rachel	Paul and others