(adapted from: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/07/30/lightningtalk.html)

• Make your point, be to the point
• Spare the details (they'll ask you afterwards)
• Don't take yourself too seriously

What to say in five minutes

(adapted from: http://perl.plover.com/lt/osc2003/lightning-talks.html)

1. My favorite X.
2. I want to do cool project X. Does anyone want to help?
3. Successful Project: I did project X. It was a success. Here's how you could benefit.
4. Failed Project: I did project X. It was a failure, and here's why.
5. Heresy: People always say X, but they're wrong. Here's why.
6. What's wrong: Here's what is wrong with our community.
7. Call to Action: Let's all do more of X / less of X.
8. A Funny Thing happened to me on the Way to the Mailing List / Newsgroup / Web Forum.
9. Why X looks like a mistake, but isn't.
10. What it's like to do X.
11. Here's a useful technique that worked.
12. Here's a technique I thought would be useful but didn't work.
13. Comparison of similar products, services, software or libraries X and Y.
14. Why we should be paying more attention to X.
15. My Favorite Feature