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[edit] Speed Geeking

[edit] What is Speed Geeking?

Tired or long, boring presentations? Check out speed geeking, a process by which you can participate in a number of short presentations in quick succession. Here is how it works

  1. You need about 10-15 presenters and an audience of 80-100
  2. Start by getting the presenters to stand in a large circle with the audience in the center in groups of 7-10
  3. When the facilitator rings the bell, each group goes to one presenter
  4. The presenter now has 5 minutes to present/demo/discuss his or her topic
  5. The facilitator shouts a time warning at 4 minutes and rings the bell at 5 minutes
  6. At this point, each group moves to the next presenter
  7. The 5 minute timer starts again for the new round
  8. Repeat until every group has visited every presenter

At the end of about 60-80 minutes, you would have listened to every presenter. Simple!

[edit] Ideas for presenters

There are no rules about what you can present or how you should present it, but here are some ideas

  • You only have 5 minutes so make it short and sweet
  • People love seeing stuff, so show a demo, get print outs or use paper and pen
  • If you've made something interesting, bring it and show it
  • People love participating, so you may want to try a discussion format
  • Or try 2.5 minutes of talk and 2.5 minutes of questions

[edit] Implementation ideas

If you have any ideas on how to implement this better, add it in here

  • Have a board with the contact details of all presenters. This way audience members can get back to presenters for an extended discussion after the session
  • The presenters don't have to be in a circle. Stand along a corridor or around a garden. It should be a closed figure though, so that the audience can rotate through the presenters

[edit] Presenter list

If you are interested in presenting during the speed geeking session, add your session based on the template below

[edit] Topic

Presenter

Description

[edit] MakeHuman(c) open-source library

Shakti Prasad Misra (shakti.pr.misra [at] gmail dot com)

MakeHuman(C) is an open-source, open graphics library, stand-alone, multi-platform, software program, which is completely written in C++ language. Its purpose is to provide a **versatile**, **professional** and extremely **specialized** application for **parametrical** modeling of three-dimensional humanoid characters.

[edit] HackNight@BCB4

Sridhar Rao, Blog, chshridharrao@gmail.com

A brief into about hacknight, what it is?, what it is not? what we can build? just anything and everything about HackNight@BCB4

[edit] Bangalore Transport Information System (BTIS)

Pradeep B V btis.in, pradeep [at] mapunity [dot] in

A brief overview of the BTIS. How does it work? How can you get traffic status in realtime that too in a city like Bangalore? Does it work on mobile phones?

[edit] Global Village Energy Project (GVEP) - An Energy Hub GIS application

Surekha Sastry gvep, surekha [at] mapunity [dot] in

A web based GIS Software for planning, implementation and monitoring of renewable energy projects which answers the following: Can renewable energy sources meet the electrification needs of rural areas? How much energy is available from renewable sources? Which areas are particularly underserved?

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