Hi all, replying to myself after a chat with Gabor on IM.
On Sun, 9 Oct 2011 15:00:59 +0200 Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > On Sun, 9 Oct 2011 13:55:15 +0200 > Gabor Szabo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I just discussed with Sawyer that it might be time to > > organize a Perl Workshop in Israel again. > > > > That might help strengthening our community. > > It can also be a good opportunity to reach out to people > > who are not coming to our regular meetings and > > who are not on our mailing list. > > > > This is mostly a heads-up as we don't have a place or a > > fixed date yet but we are aiming at the beginning of 2012. > > > > So what can you do to help? > > > > 1) Start thinking about a talk or two. The regular > > Perl meeting is a good place to practice! > > > > Well, I can give a rerun of this short talk: > > http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/Perl/Lightning/Too-Many-Ways/ > > It was received well by the Jerusalem Perl Mongers and by TelAviv.pm . > > I can also give a short talk about the ABC Path solver and generator: > > http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/japanese-puzzle-games/abc-path/ > > I've given it without too much presentational material on TelAviv.pm back > before I have written the generator. > > Another option for a talk would be about the improvements I've made for "perl > -d", like "b [file]:[line]" or enable/disable breakpoints. > Thinking about it, I would prefer not to propose to give any talks, because this kind of stuff makes me nervous and would interfere with my other workshop-related activity. > > 2) Speaker contact and proceedings creator. > > > > As in previous years it would be nice to go home with > > a booklet of the printed materials. Even if in the end > > we cannot finance the booklet, we would like to make > > sure the talks are available on-line. We need a volunteer > > to be in touch with the speakers, to collect the materials > > and if to put them together for printing. > > I volunteer to collect the materials from the speakers and to put them online, > but I would prefer if we didn't print a booklet (which many people are > unlikely > to read anyhow, and would be a waste of paper), and that instead we would > prepare an electronic booklet online with the concentrated material. > I now commit to doing that (assuming I am accepted.). Furthermore, I will put all the relevant material in a version control system, with a straightforward build-system, and detailed build instructions, in case I become missing-in-action. And I can also help in the Public Relations and Publicity of the conference in various Internet channels. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Understand what Open Source is - http://shlom.in/oss-fs I used to be arrogant. Now I’m simply Perfect. — one of Shlomi Fish’s relatives. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
