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["Stephen Michael Kellat" <skellat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:53 -0400, "Michael Gilbert"
<michael.s.gilbert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jon Buckley wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > As I am sure many of you know, the 2011 Ohio LinuxFest as well as this years
> > UbuCon are only a few days away!! One of the events at this years UbuCon is
> > a live recording of The Burning Circle podcast, and as part, I have been
> > asked to send out a request for proposals for 1-minute speeches to be used
> > in the podcast. All speech proposals, including the title or subject matter
> > can be sent to the podcast producer at mrsnicelunchlady@xxxxxxxxx.
> > 
> > Additionally, be sure to check out the fun packed schedule of events for
> > UbuCon at https://ohiolinux.org/friday11!!  As well as the schedule for the
> > rest of the weekend, https://ohiolinux.org/saturday.
> 
> I don't really have any thoughts on speech ideas, but an interview
> would be doable.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Gilbert
> 

If there is to be an interview, it really must be with Bradley Kuhn of
Software Freedom Conservancy.  So far, he's not responded to my
inquiries.  I will try harder.

As to the one-minutes, here's the deal.  Those are your chance to
practice public speaking in front of a probably fairly friendly
audience.  The notion of one-minutes comes from the idea of being stuck
in an elevator with say your local mayor or perhaps Mark Shuttleworth
himself.  You've got their attention for 60 seconds and can say almost
anything.  If you want to pitch your pet project, like moving municipal
administrative computing to Linux, you've got that time.  It is a use it
or lose it scenario.

Sixty seconds isn't a lot of time.  There are some episodes of The
Burning Circle that are barely that long yet we pack as much as we can
in.  What could you do?  

The goal is to get about 5-10 of these lined up though that's not a
hard-and-fast upper limit by any means.  The producer's job right now is
mainly to help you narrow your focus and help you come up with something
you can go with.  It is at arm's length from me that a speaking order
would be put together for the live show.  I won't be picking...I'll just
be introducing you.

Doing this would also help advance some of the goals discussed in our
LoCo's reapproval app that is archived here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OhioTeam/ReApproval

If it helps, I'm sure I could find an appropriate buzzer or other
noisemaker to use alongside a stopwatch. :-)  If I can dig something up,
we could well have a prize or two if that makes it more interesting.

SMK