[H-GEN] Talks and stuff

[Benjamin Carlyle]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 09:33 +1000, Stephen Thorne wrote:
> On 08/02/06, Robert Brockway <rbrockway at opentrend.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Stephen Thorne wrote:
> > > Hm, Maybe we can increase interest in the talks by giving 'lightning'
> > > talks or something. 5 minute slides-less presentations?
> > I've done 5 minute talks - they are really hard :)  You need to talk at
> > full speed and avoid pausing for questions just to get some basic facts
> > across.  What about 10-15 minutes with a Q&A afterwards?
> Could work? Feel like attending on saturday? Got a topic?

I would like to chair a fairly informal discussion/talk today at 5pm, if
I could. I don't have any slides or the like prepared (and don't usually
bring along a computer) but I wouldn't mind entering into a discussion
about the Efficient Software Initiative[1], including it's origins,
precepts, relevance, usefulness, and appropriateness.

I'd just like to bounce some ideas around, really :)
I'm preparing to talk about it in some wider circles and would like to
get a feel for which parts of my thinking on the topic are defensible
and reasonable, compared to the parts that are a little wacko.

-- 
Benjamin Carlyle <benjamincarlyle at optusnet.com.au>
[1] http://efficientsoftware.pbwiki.com/