Passions, geeks and beers will blend next week at Hopmonk Tavern, where O'Reilly Media is hosting the first-ever Ignite showcase in Sonoma County.

For those of you unfamiliar, Ignite is an event where people give a 5 minute presentation on basically whatever they're passionate about.

Presenters are required to use a power point presentation with 20 slides that automatically advance every 15 seconds (You get it: 15 seconds per slide X 20 slides = 5 minutes)

Two presenters have already been named: Bay Area musician Zoe Keating and O'Reilly Media founder Tim O'Reilly. No word yet on their presentation topics.

I plan to submit a presentation titled "How remote-controlled helicopters, etc. will save my job: An economic argument to rescue regional journalism."

Submit your proposal here. The deadline is Wednesday, June 3.

It all goes down Wednesday, June 10 at Hopmonk Tavern in Sebastopol, with doors opening 6 p.m. (It's worth going just for the Dunkelweizen.)

Sara Wing, who is hosting the event and is VP of O'Reilly Radar, provides a bunch of good resources here, including how to give a good presentation.