{"id":1039,"date":"2011-07-06T12:03:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T16:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2011.boston.wordcamp.org\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2011-07-06T12:03:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T16:03:08","slug":"lightning-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/lightning-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most popular elements of WordCamp Boston 2010 (aka #bestwordcampever) was Ignite WordCamp, a series of lightning-talk style presentations we did Saturday evening. We&#8217;ll be doing Lightning Talks this year as well &#8211; get yours in now!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lightning Talks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lightning Talks for WordCamp Boston 2011 will be in the 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide format, which means each talk is 6 minutes and 40 seconds long.  (This is the format <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pecha-kucha.org\/\">Pecha Kucha<\/a> uses). <\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/spreadsheet\/viewform?formkey=dEs3NTNVWFlyX3l1LWpqR1hBTjdaWVE6MQ\">submit lighting talk proposals here<\/a> by July 11th. Selection from proposed talks will be made by the organizing committee &#8211; we&#8217;re looking for fun, interesting, and insightful (not necessarily in that order). <\/p>\n<p>For inspiration, you can watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Ignite+WordCamp+Boston&#038;aq=f\">Ignite WordCamp Boston 2010 presentations<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re very excited to about WordCamp Boston this year, and look forward to seeing another round of interesting lightning talks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most popular elements of WordCamp Boston 2010 (aka #bestwordcampever) was Ignite WordCamp, a series of lightning-talk style presentations we did Saturday evening. We&#8217;ll be doing Lightning Talks this year as well &#8211; get yours in now! Lightning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/lightning-talks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lightning Talks<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258633,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[6869,6870],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","tag-lightning-talks","tag-pecha-kucha"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tTIn-gL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}