Last night was our first technology-themed 20x20 talk night (20 slides, 20 seconds each). Well done to Steve for getting it off the ground by organising the room and presiding over the slide collecting. The final line-up was as follows:
As we waited for people to arrive, Paul Mison played a bit of live Electroplankton on his Nintendo DS on the big screen, which worked really well (naturally, since it's designed for performance). I think we had about 30-40 people, plus speakers, and hopefully people enjoyed it enough that they'll come along again. We'll be starting a mailing list soon, so leave a comment here if you'd like to be notified when it's ready.
NB:- though originally publicised as Techa Kucha Night, we changed the name to Ask Later.
To avoid collisions with Pecha Kucha Night's UK trademark, in the future we won't be calling our event Techa Kucha Night. Nobody has specifically asked us to change, but a brief and civil exchange of emails with the London Pecha Kucha people has made it clear they'd rather we'd asked them first, which is fair enough.
In honour of this, and of our preference for leaving question time to the pub afterwards, we've changed the name of the night to Ask Later. I hope the topics remain sufficiently different between our night and the original architecture and design themed night so that there are no hard feelings. I can thoroughly recommend you check out the original Pecha Kucha - the next one in London is at the ICA on August 30th.
Techa Kucha is shaping up nicely. So far the confirmed speakers are: Steve Coast, Yoz Grahame, Tom Armitage, Ben Russell, Paul Hammond, Toxi, Simon Willison, Robert McKinnon, Alex McLean, Sean Varney, Jon Crowcroft and me.
Full details are on the Upcoming page and on Steve's blog, but here's all you need to know:
Tuesday 25th July, 7pm, New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University. Entry is FREE.
There's still time to submit a talk if you'd like to join us. (Just get 20 slides of 20 seconds each to Steve by Monday night!) Of course, you don't have to speak to attend. This isn't like Fight Club... Yet.
NB:- though originally publicised as Techa Kucha Night, we changed the name to Ask Later.
Enterprising chap that he is, Steve has booked a room at London Westminster University for what he's dubbed "Techa Kucha Night", a night of technology themed talks in the Pecha Kucha style* on Tuesday 25th July at 7pm. Entry is free, which is a bonus.
See Steve's post for more details, and please consider volunteering to give a talk (you'll be in illustrious company) as well as coming along and enjoying the fun. It should be a good night with a wide range of topics: basically, anything goes!
* that's 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide, no more no less. A strict version of a lightning talk, if you will.
NB:- though originally publicised as Techa Kucha Night, we changed the name to Ask Later.
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