[Battlemesh] Talk @ WBMv5

[Michel de Geofroy]

I really enjoy TED talks maybe it can be a source of inspiration?

TED Commandments

http://www.timlonghurst.com/blog/2008/05/16/the-ted-commandments-rules-every-speaker-needs-to-know/

1) Thou Shalt Not Simply Trot Out thy Usual Shtick
2) Thou Shalt Dream a Great Dream, or Show Forth a Wondrous New Thing,
Or Share Something
Thou Hast Never Shared Before
3) Thou Shalt Reveal thy Curiosity and Thy Passion
4) Thou Shalt Tell a Story
5) Thou Shalt Freely Comment on the Utterances of Other Speakers for
the Skae of Blessed Connection and Exquisite Controversy
6) Thou Shalt Not Flaunt thine Ego. Be Thou Vulnerable. Speak of thy
Failure as well as thy Success.
7) Thou Shalt Not Sell from the Stage: Neither thy Company, thy Goods,
thy Writings, nor thy Desperate need for Funding; Lest Thou be Cast
Aside into Outer Darkness.
8) Thou Shalt Remember all the while: Laughter is Good.
9) Thou Shalt Not Read thy Speech.
10) Thou Shalt Not Steal the Time of Them that Follow Thee

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Marek Lindner <lindner_marek at yahoo.de> wrote:
> On Friday, March 16, 2012 06:59:59 Roger Baig Viñas wrote:
>> Shifting is one option. Another is to extend the talks one more day
>> (Tue-Fri). Despite both of them are ok for me I think the second has
>> some advantages: 1st) does not affect the rest of already scheduled
>> talks, 2nd) does not affect the activity of those who want to hack
>> since they can keep doing it in parallel of the talks, and 3rd) opens
>> the door to devote more time to talk about specific the projects since
>> there's a lot of stuff that might be interesting for many mesh
>> enthusiasts. In this sense I would propose to reshape the talk
>> currently proposed for Thursday from 17h-18h "Public funding for mesh
>> projects" to something like:
>>
>> * general aspects (30min)
>> * ENPI (30min)
>> * CONFINE (30min)
>> * Commons4EU (30min)
>
> Personally, I don't really have a preference but last year we had a longer
> discussion (almost an outcry) for less talks. As long you and Aaron get
> crucified and not me - I am fine with either way. ;-)
>
> Can we have some more opinions from the audience ?
>
>
>> And I would suggest also another talk (Friday?) about the future of
>> the WBM (how do we want it to be? how can we improve it from the
>> experience gained from the previous editions?) and the v6 edition
>> (candidates to host it?)
>
> We already have a slot for this topic - the opening talk (like we did last
> year). As I recall you were too busy organizing stuff to attend it ?!
>
> Regards,
> Marek
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