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<h1><a href="/">Bleeding Edge Web</a></h1>
<p class="subhead">A meetup for the discerning web app developer</p>
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<p><a href="./">← Home</a></p>
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<h2>Speaker Guide</h2>
<p>So you've decided to give a talk for our meetup — <strong>thank you</strong>! Here
are a few things we'll need from you and some tips to get you started.</p>
<p id="need"><em><strong>What We Need From You</strong></em></p>
<p>We need the following information up front in order to get your talk scheduled:</p>
<ul>
<li>The title of your talk</li>
<li>Brief overview of the talk. Generally a paragraph or two highlighting the main things
people can expect to learn about (not required for lightning talks).</li>
<li>A one or two sentence bio including any contact info you'd like shared (e.g. Twitter handle)</li>
</ul>
<p>Take a look at any of our recent <a href="http://www.meetup.com/bleeding-edge-web/">meetup
announcements</a> for examples of how others have done this.</p>
<p>If your slides will be hosted online (strongly preferred) please provide the link to
us <strong>prior to the start of the meetup</strong> so that we can make them available to
anyone watching the livestream during your talk.</p>
<p id="slide-tips"><em><strong>Slide Tips</strong></em></p>
<p>You will be presenting in a large room, and slides will be on monitors that may be hard to
see for people sitting in the back. Also, while we record the slides on video, the camera is
not close to the screen. Plan your talk with these parameters in mind.</p>
<ul>
<li>Slides should be <strong>light text on dark background</strong>. Very light backgrounds
wash out completely on video and negatively affect the overall video quality. This one is
very important!</li>
<li><strong>Font size should be large</strong>. Basically the bigger the text, the better. Favor
more slides with less text per slide over fewer densely-populated slides when possible.</li>
<li>Favor <strong>high contrast</strong> between text and background colors.</li>
</ul>
<p id="talk-duration"><em><strong>Preparing | Talk Duration</strong></em></p>
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We typically have the room from <b>6:30-9pm</b>. We always start off with our standing "News from the Bleeding Edge"
talk, which takes the first 20 minutes or so. The perfect duration for the main talk is about
<b>30 minutes</b>. In fact, erring on the shorter side is usually better (TED talks are <a
href="https://storage.ted.com/tedx/manuals/tedx_speaker_guide.pdf">18 minutes</a>!),
and leaves more time afterward for questions and networking.
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You should plan on arriving <strong>15 minutes prior to the meetup start time</strong> to get
set up and oriented with the room. We present and record via Zoom, so you'll want time to connect
to wifi and make sure you can get into Zoom.
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<p>
Check out some of our prior meetups on <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/user/austintechlive/search?query=bleeding+edge+web" target="_blank">YouTube</a>
to get a good feel for how the events usually go.
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