Lightning Talk Writing Workshop

• What we'll do
New Year's Resolution Series! Not Necessarily R Specific

From Wikipedia: A lightning talk is a very short presentation lasting only a few minutes, given at a conference or similar forum. Lightning talks can be about anything! The art and practice of crafting these talks is great because it forces you to work on:

• Choosing a topic that you care about enough to share
• Condensing your expertise into a short/digestable format
• Realizing that you DO have something interesting to say
• Not freaking out about whether other people will find it interesting
• Clear and effective presentation design
• (Eventually) Clear and effective verbal presentation skills

At this workshop we'll cover what a lightning talk is, and we'll work on developing them. You don't need to come with an idea in mind, we'll work on brainstorming topic ideas as part of the session.

• What to bring
A laptop or plain old pen&paper

• Important to know
This R-Ladies Meetup Event is open to anyone of any gender. Please review our Code of Conduct if this will be your first event with us: https://github.com/rladies/starter-kit/wiki/Code-of-Conduct