A Lightning Talk is a 5-minute presentation on any topic of interest to the OOPSLA community. Lightning Talks will be presented back to back with strict enforcement of the 5-minute time limit.
Lightning Talks are a popular and exciting format in the open-source community, and you can find lotsofadvice about them with a good search engine.
Lightning Talk submissions consist solely of an abstract (of up to 250 words) which will be published on the OOPSLA website.