the art of Pecha Kucha or "how to squeeze 115 presentations in a day where there was only place for 95" Barcamp Gent 28/03/2008

Pecha Kucha = [pecha-k-cha] = the sound of conversation

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People tend to put every word they say on their powerpoint slides. Be it for the sake of actually saying everything they want to say or because this eliminates the need to memorize their talk, ultimately this makes slides crowded, wordy and boring and you will lose the attention of your audience before you reach the bottom of slide 1

What the fuck? http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/04/worst_powerpoin.html

Information overkill Getting started with the Twitter API Something ruby-related ;) creating simple charts with iText installation (not presentation) of the view at Milliway's , the restaurant at the end of the universe perhaps something about the death of print Most likely something on IronRuby and the DLR something on distributed/decentralised social networking keynote on the history of apple computer inc. "When Steve met Steve" Maybe I'll do the talk about Africa on Rails or I can talk about hosting / network related subjects, about Gent or ... real live example on amazon web services: S3, SQS, EC2 Probably OAuth, valet key of the web designing/customizing webapps for mobiles Multiple idea's: 1) optimizing teams, 2) Agile project management,3) Theory Of Constraints, 4) Lean management, what would you prefer? What the web really could look like About full frame digital single-lens reflex cameras & how to edit RAW pictures in Lightroom. Or something about Creativeskills.be if version 2 is released at that time. small business, ICT, Open Source, or maybe legalese related ICT stuff: IANAL, but how to manage ICT stuff to keep your lawyer happy? It would be interesting to give a follow-up about the business plan for iText I might do something on human decision making and error, I might do somthing about Gentblogt. High performance websites? Netlog architecture? How to create your own vertical search engine presentation on webdesign Maybe something about our new CMS/ framework Maybe something about the CSS architecture in the recent Netlog redesign Media distribution over internet by broadcasters Something about something jQuery (JavaScript library) No idea yet ... Something about email or Google Analytics for beginners psychology/e-learning/e-marketing on voluntary economies in real life and on the internet how I'm trying to introduce Free Software at Jimma university (Ethiopia) An introduction to ExpressionEngine *or* a 'live' demo of VoiceOver in Mac OS X Leopard (with a 'real' electronic braille display and professional grade voice synthesis) Thinking about something on writing for the web People and Source Control, a love-hate relationship What's new in Drupal 6 / how to add jQuery effects to your Drupal site / i18n and L10n in Drupal 5 and 6 presenting "Usability techniques in a nutshell" a première on MyOwnDB and it's engine δεδομένων Demo of my Nabaztag, or something about innovatives way of using the internet on radio and vice versa Extending WordPress to fit the needs of a multiuser photoblog iets over Movable Type I'll talk about 'social recruitment' presentation on Citylive , something about how to create widgets for different platforms and what widget languages/environments are out there) something about the use (and future) of 3D - virtual environments something about designing webapps, maybe about doing tech job in non-tech, non-profit environment, maybe something else Social Networking in Business context presentation on allejobsinleuven.be in Ruby on Rails Lifehack session (tips & tricks for geeks) something about eCulture probably something productivity related probably Apache Maven unless something more intresting comes to mind maybe something about Py3k something music related? presentation of a new Flemish website in Ruby on Rails something openid or perl related. about what you can and can't say or show on the internet, deontology the art of Pecha Kucha or "how to squeeze 115 presentations in a day where there is only place for 95".

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Everything fits the format

An amazing array of different concepts in a short timespan Getting started with the Twitter API Something ruby-related ;) creating simple charts with iText installation (not presentation) of the view at Milliway's , the restaurant at the end of the universe perhaps something about the death of print Most likely something on IronRuby and the DLR something on distributed/decentralised social networking keynote on the history of apple computer inc. "When Steve met Steve" Maybe I'll do the talk about Africa on Rails or I can talk about hosting / network related subjects, about Gent or ... real live example on amazon web services: S3, SQS, EC2 Probably OAuth, valet key of the web designing/customizing webapps for mobiles Multiple idea's: 1) optimizing teams, 2) Agile project management,3) Theory Of Constraints, 4) Lean management, what would you prefer? What the web really could look like About full frame digital single-lens reflex cameras & how to edit RAW pictures in Lightroom. Or something about Creativeskills.be if version 2 is released at that time. small business, ICT, Open Source, or maybe legalese related ICT stuff: IANAL, but how to manage ICT stuff to keep your lawyer happy? It would be interesting to give a follow-up about the business plan for iText I might do something on human decision making and error, I might do somthing about Gentblogt. High performance websites? Netlog architecture? How to create your own vertical search engine presentation on webdesign Maybe something about our new CMS/ framework Maybe something about the CSS architecture in the recent Netlog redesign Media distribution over internet by broadcasters Something about something jQuery (JavaScript library) No idea yet ... Something about email or Google Analytics for beginners psychology/e-learning/e-marketing on voluntary economies in real life and on the internet how I'm trying to introduce Free Software at Jimma university (Ethiopia) An introduction to ExpressionEngine *or* a 'live' demo of VoiceOver in Mac OS X Leopard (with a 'real' electronic braille display and professional grade voice synthesis) Thinking about something on writing for the web People and Source Control, a love-hate relationship What's new in Drupal 6 / how to add jQuery effects to your Drupal site / i18n and L10n in Drupal 5 and 6 presenting "Usability techniques in a nutshell" a première on MyOwnDB and it's engine δεδομένων Demo of my Nabaztag, or something about innovatives way of using the internet on radio and vice versa Extending WordPress to fit the needs of a multiuser photoblog iets over Movable Type I'll talk about 'social recruitment' presentation on Citylive , something about how to create widgets for different platforms and what widget languages/environments are out there) something about the use (and future) of 3D - virtual environments something about designing webapps, maybe about doing tech job in non-tech, non-profit environment, maybe something else Social Networking in Business context presentation on allejobsinleuven.be in Ruby on Rails Lifehack session (tips & tricks for geeks) something about eCulture probably something productivity related probably Apache Maven unless something more intresting comes to mind maybe something about Py3k something music related? presentation of a new Flemish website in Ruby on Rails something openid or perl related. about what you can and can't say or show on the internet, deontology the art of Pecha Kucha or "how to squeeze 115 presentations in a day where there is only place for 95".

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Website pecha kucha http://www.pecha-kucha.org

Pecha Kucha night Brussels http://pechakucha.architempo.net

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