On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:02 AM, David Mertens <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey folks - > > I've had an idea rolling around in my head for the past six months or so > that a once-a-month real-time VoiP gathering of PDLers would be pretty cool. > I would like to know if others would be interested in something like this. > > Basic benefits: > > Develop a stronger community around PDL > Encourage people to start talking about PDL > Create alternative visual and audio documentation > > Suggested format: > > Use Ekiga or similar (aka Skypecasting) > Meet at a specified chat room at a specified time > Status update - an overview of what's happened in the last month (basically > a review of the git log and important discussions on the list) > Talk - a how-to presentation that shows how to use some particular feature > of PDL > Open discussion - a chance for people to discuss anything PDL-related > > From the standpoint of alternative documentation, the idea is that the > speaker would prepare a set of slides before we met. They could send the > slides (preferably OO.o or PDF) to the list, or publish them on slideshare, > so that participants could view the slides during the talk. Afterwards, we > could create a 'slidecast' (on slidshare) so that in the future, people > could watch the presentation coupled with the audio of the talk. Not only > would this provide an alternative means for learning PDL, but it would put > PDL out on the web through an entirely new channel. > > Talk topics could be any number of things, including > > basic introduction to PDL > introduction to threading > using PLplot and PGPLOT > using OpenGL and TriD > using PDL::Stats > using <your favorite tool here> > switching to PDL from <your less-favorite alternative, i.e. Matlab> > using Git > using PDL::PP > low-hanging fruit, i.e. an overview of the TODO list > a tour of the Core > anything else Perl- or PDL-related > > There would be many obstacles to getting this to work, including finding > presenters, agreeing on a time to meet, and agreeing on a VoiP protocol, > just to name a few. Let's stay away from those at the moment and focus on > these questions: > > Would you be interested in attending such a monthly gathering?
YES! (sorry for shouting, but it conveys my excitement). > Would you be interested in giving a talk? Maybe when I become half as good as you all. Until then, I will be an active but courteous listener. > > Thanks. > David > > -- > Sent via my carrier pigeon. > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
