On Mar 19, 2011, at 12:14 AM, Craig DeForest wrote: > It sounds interesting. I'll do it, if you like.
You mean, you will do it if *you* like ;-) Personally, I was thinking someone like you, Karl (being the BDFL and all that), and perhaps Chris (being the current el jefe maintainer) would make for a great panel. Or, perhaps one of the less visible but equally adept PDL gurus on this list might want to volunteer (I would do it, but I can barely construct a workable PDL idiom without help from Derek or you or Chris or Matt). Anthony Scopatz, the moderator, is a Python guy, but is fairly equal opportunity, and a very nice guy to boot. Once I have three volunteers, we would set up a Doodle poll to come up with a date/time that would work for all. After that, it takes one hour on Skype (from past experience). In this case, since the three panelists would not only know way more than the moderator about the topic, and would also not have any polemic differences between them, it would really be a nice opportunity to shine a light on Perl/PDL/science, and evangelize. You could choose your own narrative, or use the one I suggested -- a brief history of PDL (year zero is a lovely story as Karl tells it), where it is used now, an exposition of the strengths of the language for scientific problems, the PDL community, the future with Perl 6 on the distant horizon, perhaps a comparison (albeit biased) with other languages/tools such as MATLAB, Python, IDL, C, etc. Oh, and I did mention -- one of the panelists will get to choose the episode's theme music, so that is the icing. > > On Mar 18, 2011, at 9:26 PM, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote: > >> Here at UW-Madison, there is a group of folks who gather under the moniker >> "The Hacker Within" to share experience on open source scientific computing >> [1]. One of the offsite members at UT-Austin, who also works for Enthought >> Corp, purveyors of fine Python-ware, came up with the idea of science >> podcasts [2]. This group generally has love to spare for Python. So, I >> thought, why not a podcast on PDL? >> >> Here is how it works -- 3 panelists are found, who join one moderator to do >> a show. They conference via Skype on the chosen day/time and chit-chat for >> 20-30 mins getting to know each other and discussing the topic at hand. >> Then, the recording begins. Each panelist gets 1.5-2 mins to talk about >> their perspective on the topic du jour. Then the moderator jumps in and asks >> questions, and the panelists go round and round again. The show ends with a >> 30 seconds rant from each panelist. The entire show is about 20 mins. The >> whole process takes one hour. >> >> Even though I thought up the idea for a PDL-focused podcast (actually, it >> should really be a "Perl for Scientific Computing" podcast, much in line >> with a recent thread on this list), I believe most everyone else on this >> list is more qualified than I to speak on this topic. >> >> I need three folks interested in spreading Perl/PDL/science/computing love. >> I can connect the three volunteers to the moderator. Any volunteers? >> >> I participated in the first episode (episode 0), and even though I am not >> photogenic at all, I daresay it was a rather fun experience. >> >> Puneet. >> >> [1] http://hackerwithin.org/thw/ >> [2] http://inscight.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Perldl mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl >> > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
