Blitz reports at RHS 2008

At RIT-2008, we are launching a new report format - the so-called blitz reports or lightning talks. In short, the blitz report is read for exactly 5 minutes in a series of
10-20 of the same reports without interruption between them.

Sessions of blitz for many years have always been very popular on
international conferences TPC, OSCON, YAPC, PyCon, as well as numerous barcamps and
non-conferences. We are catching up too.

The subject of blitz reports even in one session can be very different. Moreover, it is even
welcome, because it is fully consistent with the idea of ​​the event - pack in one to two hours
a lot of easy to learn information from different areas of knowledge. Sessions of blitz reports
held at the end of the day, so the speakers are counting on a tired audience and often
make blitz reports in a slightly humorous way.
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Preparing a good blitz report can take you quite a bit of time, so we
We especially recommend this format to busy specialists and managers who have that
say, but never enough time to prepare a full-length performance. Also,
The format of the blitz report may be interesting to young people who want to try their hand at
public speaking, minimizing risks. And of course the blitz report will be perfect.
format, if the chosen topic simply does not require long speeches.

The requirements for the blitz report theses are very simple: it is desirable that the “theses” meet the
one or two sentences. If it does not work, then probably the topic of the report is not very good.
Fits the format.

Slides to the blitz report are not required at all, but of course they are always welcome. Also,
often during blitz reports, alternative visual formats are used, such as
live demonstration, video or a large number of slides, each of which is large
written one or two words.

Based on the recommendations of one of the inventors of the blitz reports, Mark Jason Dominus, we
have compiled an exemplary list of templates to those that can provide additional insight into
the essence of the phenomenon and help determine the choice of a specific topic:

1) Why do I like project X.
2) I'm going to take on the cool project X. Does anyone want to help me?
3) I successfully completed the project X. Some tricks.
4) I completed project X. It failed, and I will tell you why.
5) Error in draft X: everyone says Y, but this is not so, because ...
6) Project X - sucks because ...
7) Call to action: let's devote more / less time X.
8) True, it would be great if X ...?
9) Someone must do X. I have no time.
10) My wishlist for project X.
11) Why X is a mistake.
12) The reasons why X, which seems to be a mistake, is not.
13) What is it like to do X.
14) A useful technique that really works.
15) The technique, which was supposed to work, but was useless.
16) We should pay more attention to X.
17) What I like about X most.

Additional materials on blitz reports are collected here:
perlrussia.ru/lightningtalks

In particular, we recommend reading two articles on the preparation of blitz reports, which we
translated for the Russian-speaking audience:
perlrussia.ru/lightningtalks/mjd
perlrussia.ru/lightningtalks/fowler

Those who wish to conduct a blitz-report at RHS-2008 should send a brief thesis of their performance.
to rit2008@profyclub.ru or personally to me, Alexey Kapranov <kapranoff@gmail.com>.
This should be done before March 20.