Talk:Lightning Talk
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[edit] Origin
The Python conference was having short talks (7 minutes long, I think) in this format prior to 2000. But the name "Lightning Talks" is original with me and as far as I know it was not used before YAPC 19100.
The Python folks subsequently adopted the name, but I believe they had the idea first, although I didn't know this at the time.
-- Dominus 10:29, 30 August 2007 (UTC)