Last Thursday (2009-08-13) I gave a lightning talk about the mirror server I am maintaining. According to the description from Wikipedia lightning talks are usually between 1 and 10 minutes with a 5 minute limit being common[¹]. In this session there were four talks with each being about 15 minutes with additional 5 to 10 minutes for questions. So it was a bit longer than the definition but that was a good length for all four talks.
The lightning talks were organized by the Chaos Computer Club Stuttgart (CCCS). They are organizing a talk every month and in the summer it is usually a lightning talks session. The given talks were:
I am very happy that I decided to give my talk and altogether it was a very nice event. There was also an audio recording (which unfortunately has not yet been released).