<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">When we did these at the SF Complex, part of the fun was that there was no topic and presenters could talk about anything. And they did.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ed<br class=""><div class="">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="">_______________________</div><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Ed Angel<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)<br class="">Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico<br class=""><br class="">1017 Sierra Pinon</div><div class="">Santa Fe, NM 87501<br class="">505-984-0136 (home)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="mailto:angel@cs.unm.edu" class="">angel@cs.unm.edu</a></div><div class="">505-453-4944 (cell) <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel" class="">http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel</a><br class=""></div></span></span>
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 21, 2020, at 6:39 PM, Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com" class="">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">this PechaKucha group (in Santa Fe) started up back while sfX was still<br class="">afloat and I think we even hosted their first event?<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.architecturesantafe.org/pk-posts/meet-our-pechakucha-vol-7-presenters" class="">https://www.architecturesantafe.org/pk-posts/meet-our-pechakucha-vol-7-presenters</a><br class=""><br class="">It seems like this was about the same time as "Lightning Talks" and<br class="">"Ignite" and similar formats were on the rise. I have mixed feelings<br class="">about the actual delivery of these things, but I *do* think that it is a<br class="">good exercise to try to condense an idea/pitch/topic to 20 slides with<br class="">20 seconds budgeted each to cover it. <br class=""><br class="">The topic for this event is "Profit"... In any case, they accepted my<br class="">"registration" for the virtual event tomorrow night, so I'm guessing<br class="">they are not "full" yet. <br class=""><br class="">I think of them as bringing "design thinking" to a broad range of<br class="">problems... that may not be a fair synopsis, but it's what I've got.<br class=""><br class="">- Steve<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<br class="">FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br class="">Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam<br class="">un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com<br class="">archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/<br class="">FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ <br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>