{"id":1415,"date":"2011-09-26T14:14:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T19:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2011-09-26T14:14:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T19:14:40","slug":"preparing-for-essex-unconference-and-lightning-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/preparing-for-essex-unconference-and-lightning-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing For Essex Unconference And Lightning Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"lead\"><a title=\"Unconference by jdlasica, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdlasica\/506378526\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/191\/506378526_1ee84e7114.jpg\" alt=\"Unconference\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Essex Design Summit is less than a week away and we want to use every moment to make the most out of it. Having the whole OpenStack community in the same timezone, sharing the same rooms is a precious event. Therefore we&#8217;re having the room Salon C reserved all three days dedicated to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Unconference\">Unconference<\/a>,\u00a0 a freely-scheduled, first-come first-serve set of 25-min slots, separated by 5-min context switches (it&#8217;s possible to grab 2 consecutive slots to do a 55min session).<\/p>\n<p>The Essex Unconference runs: Monday 9:30-10:25, 11:00-12:25, 14:00-15:55, 16:30-17:55 and Tuesday, Wednesday: 9:00-10:25, 11:00-12:25, 14:00-15:55, 16:30-17:55.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have a big paperboard and post-it ready to allow all community members there to propose discussion topics, schedule and tools to keep notes.<\/p>\n<p>Every day after lunch breaks we&#8217;ll have <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Lightning_Talk\">Lightning talks<\/a>, fast-paced 5-min slots between 13:30 and 13:55. Any subject is ok, as long as it fits in exactly 5 minutes. Make sure to practice your speech or performance as there won&#8217;t be any mercy if you go overtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Essex Design Summit is less than a week away and we want to use every moment to make the most out of it. Having the whole OpenStack community in the same timezone, sharing the same rooms is a precious event. Therefore we&#8217;re having the room Salon C reserved all three days dedicated to the\u00a0Unconference,\u00a0&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/preparing-for-essex-unconference-and-lightning-talks\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Preparing For Essex Unconference And Lightning Talks\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3],"tags":[277,514,278],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}