Plug just announced a large meeting that they are hoping plenty of people can attend. It looks pretty interesting, and I'm rather jealous that I won't be around to attend. Here's the announcement for it in case anyone is interested in going... ~Erin
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- ok folks, we have a major shift in topic for this month. Gary was kind enough to delay his presentation so we can bring in a special presenter. Damian Conway [1] has agreed to present a free presentation while he is in town on a training contract. For those not familar with Damian, he is one of the biggest names in the Perl world, and is an amazing presenter. His discussions are amazingly informative, while side-splitting with humor. He is the author of 'Object Oriented Perl' [2], and the just released 'Perl Best Practices' [3] (Which I was able to review, amazing book) [4]. This event will be on the normal plug night (Wednesday 10, August), but we will be holding it at UVSC (room TBD) to accomidate the larger crowd. The meeting time will likely start a touch earlier to allow for the extra content. Oreilly is already sending books and swag for the event, and we are looking for other sponsors (food && swag), so if your company would like to get's it's name out, please contact me. If you are interested in Perl, Perl6, Language Design, or scripting in general, or you just want to be amazed at a good geek presenter, do not miss this event. Remember, this is normal a rather expensive thing to attend. Damian has offered to talk on the following subjects: Extreme Perl – The Horror That Is SelfGOL [5] Life, The Universe, and Everything [6] Perl 6 Update [7] Quantum::Superpositions [8] Sufficiently Advanced Technologies [9] Lingua::Romana::Perligata: Perl for the XXI-imus century [10] The first of those is an amazing brain bender about obfuscation, but the others present much more "practical" concepts. If you have an opinion, please reply to the thread. And there will be QA time if people want, about Perl6, programming in Klingon, Bleaching code, or anything else. 1. http://damian.conway.org/About_us/Bio_formal.html 2. http://www.manning.com/books/conway 3. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlbp/ 4. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlbp/reviews.html 5. http://damian.conway.org/Seminars//Extreme.html 6. http://damian.conway.org/Seminars//Life.html 7. http://damian.conway.org/Seminars//Perl6.html 8. http://damian.conway.org/Seminars//Quantum.html 9. http://damian.conway.org/Seminars//Technology.html 10. http://damian.conway.org/Seminars//Perligata.html -- Jason Hall (Jayce^) Provo Linux Users Group ------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Jason Hall (Jayce^) Provo Linux Users Group _______________________________________________ UTOSC mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://plug.org/mailman/listinfo/utosc -- -- userfriendly.org --
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