Guess who misremembered having 25 seconds per slide and instead has 15 seconds per slide on Monday?
FML! :)
Goodness, I hate formalistic presentation styles like Ignite. But don’t worry, I’m breaking the form three times in the talk – including starting with a minute of silence for Gaza (that’s four black slides and 1/5th of the 5-minute talk), a transition (ok, it’s a 15-second transition, but still), and a live demo (yep) – and using that to demonstrate the case that we do not have to accept the rigid confines of the status quo, that resistance and sabotage are always options, and that the way things are is just raw materials for the way things can be. That said, constraints are also good so the reduced slide duration will only make my talk more impactful if I edit it down right, it just means more work… and more than one thing can be true at the same time. ;)
If you’re in Dublin/Ireland and want to drop by, there are no tickets and it’s first-come first-served:
1–3 Oct 2025, Freiburg: European Galaxy Days, ELIXIR Galaxy, and EuroScienceGateway members convened to align roadmaps and turn plans into solutions, tools, and workflows through talks, demos, and a CoFest. https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-10-15-egd2025/
There is one slide which hits very close to home for me.
From my own experience - this hits the nail of all kind of messy issues I've experienced through my career in software development:
Communication is key to success. Being in close collaboration with the key people in a project which intersects with the problem you're tasked to solve brings fruits much quicker.
That "Team Topologies" (I've not read the book myself) seems to suggest we need LESS communication for success .... seems to be like pointing a bazooka towards your own feed and hit the trigger.
"Agreements, whether simple or elaborate, whether legal or political in nature, whether written or verbal, have no more effect than the willingness of parties to implement them, and no more significance than the good faith of parties in entering into them in the first place. Thus, if underlying agreement exists, any texts will follow quickly. If underlying agreement does not exist, no amount of detailed text will bring it about."
"All such agreements are completely dependent on the will to take them seriously, and abide by their terms."