Sounds interesting.
CLIFF SOBCHUK Core RF Engineering Phone 403-262-4010x3618169 www.ericsson.com<http://www.ericsson.com/> "The author works for Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson ("Ericsson"), who is solely responsible for this email and its contents. All inquiries regarding this email should be addressed to Ericsson. The web site for Ericsson is www.ericsson.com." This Communication is Confidential. We only send and receive email on the basis of the terms set out at www.ericsson.com/email_disclaimer<http://www.ericsson.com/email_disclaimer> ________________________________ From: David Mertens [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: June-11-10 9:02 AM To: perldl Subject: [Perldl] Proposal: Monthly PDL Colloquium 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: 1. Develop a stronger community around PDL 2. Encourage people to start talking about PDL 3. Create alternative visual and audio documentation Suggested format: * Use Ekiga<https://www.ekiga.net/> 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: 1. Would you be interested in attending such a monthly gathering? 2. Would you be interested in giving a talk? Thanks. David -- Sent via my carrier pigeon.
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