Call for participation: Bad Attitude Pecha Kucha @ IETF 120
Time: Wednesday, July 24 at 10 pm Vancouver time
Location: Georgia B
Come share your favorite stories, rants, or calls to action with your
IETF colleagues. If you have a topic about which you are passionate,
you can give a Pecha Kucha.
By now, most of you probably know this, but for those new to the
event: a Pecha Kucha is a lightning-talk presentation format,
originating in Japan, where a speaker presents 20 image-only slides
that are each on the screen for 20 seconds and advance automatically.
With each talk lasting for 6:40, it has the feature of forcing
presentations, good or bad, to be focused and brief.
This is an unofficial event. Topics are encouraged to be IETF-related
and satirical or controversial in some way, although not
mean-spirited. Anyone can participate in this social event.
Format Details:
* Kyle Rose and Jen Linkova will co-host the event in Vancouver.
* Presentation slots are open to all interested presenters. Slots are
assigned first-come, first-served.
* To reserve a presentation slot, send a name and title to Kyle at
krose@xxxxxxxxx AND to Jen at furry13@xxxxxxxxx and receive
confirmation.
* While this recurring event originally hosted exclusively PK-format
talks, presenters now have two choices for talk format:
- You may adhere to the traditional Pecha Kucha format (20 slides,
primarily image-only, automatically advancing every 20 seconds). We
need 20 static slides as a PDF. Animations are NOT supported since we
will be presenting from our own laptops and we only support vanilla
PDF.
- You may alternatively use your 6m 40s slot to give a
presentation in some other format, but you will be strictly limited to
400 seconds, after which the Lars Eggert rule¹ will be triggered. We
should be able to provide you with direct control over slide
advancement via wireless remote. Animations are still NOT supported
when we are presenting from our own laptops. You MAY alternatively use
your own hardware to present, but you MUST show up at least 15 minutes
before the event begins to test that it works and is ready to go with
just an HDMI cable swap.
* We MUST receive your final slide deck no later than the start of the
Plenary on Wednesday (i.e., by 5:30 pm local time). Earlier is better.
You REALLY OUGHT TO get them to us at least a day in advance. Decks
received after the plenary starts are processed on a best-effort basis
and we MAY replace them with random images of kittens, puppies, and
hummingbirds.
* There are lots of online tutorials and suggestions for how to make a
good Pecha Kucha. Here are some links:
https://www.pechakucha.com/
https://blog.indezine.com/2012/05/10-tips-to-create-and-present-pecha.html
https://catherinecronin.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/pecha-kucha/
* This is an in-person event only: while talks will be recorded
(thanks to the fine efforts of our own Tero Kivinen), they will not be
live-streamed and there will be no remote participation.
We hope to see you there!
Kyle and Jen
¹The Lars Eggert rule mandates that when time runs out, the audience
immediately starts clapping and continues clapping until the speaker
desists and vacates the podium.
