Hello everybody - YAPC::NA 2012, which will be in Madison, WI from June 13 through June 15, has officially opened up for presentations! You can read more on their website here: http://blog.yapcna.org/post/16510858837/call-for-presenters-open-for-yapc-na-2012
JT Smith, the man spear-heading this year's YAPC::NA, gave a talk at the Chicago Perl Mongers last night. They are giving preference this year to real-world Perl apps and quintessential Perl 101 talks. JT's example talk last night was about a Perl web application that underlies a small-batch card and board game publishing business called GameCrafter. YAPC allows for multiple submissions of varying length including lightning talks (30s? 1 min?), five minutes, 20 minutes, 50 minutes, and 110 minutes. The latter two are typically run as workshops and are more ideal for Perl 101 sorts of things. I believe that we should make an effort as a community to attend and present at this year's YAPC. I told JT that I am very interested in presenting about PDL and he suggested a strategy to maximize interest: give talks of increasing length. The goal of such a strategy would be to get people gradually more interested in PDL so that by the time the workshop rolls around, they are enthusiastic and willing to spend one or two hours learning PDL instead of doing something else at the conference. Joel Berger has already made a few suggestions, including "Modeling Electron Dynamics with Modern Object Oriented Perl" for 20 minutes, and some sort of XS 101 talk. I am interested in demoing some of my simpler Prima-based simulation scripts that I have used in my research, which could easily be a five-minute or a 20-minute talk entitled "Interactive Visual Simulations using PDL and Prima". Obviously I'd like to give a talk about my Prima plotting library, probably a 20-minute talk entitled "PDL::Graphics::Prima - A 2D Plotting Library written in Perl". Then, of course, there will be the "Introduction to PDL". I haven't decided on a duration for that yet. Now, there is no guarantee that all of these talks will be submitted, or even that we *should* submit all of these talks. I would be happy to give a lightning talk or two about some of my Prima stuff, or try to line-up two five-minute talks in a row: one on Prima and the next on Gnuplot, if that seems like a sensible thing to do. The most important thing is that we communicate our ideas, coordinate our efforts, and discuss everything with the organizers. I would really like the PDL intro to be scheduled after all the other PDL talks so that we can build up as much enthusiasm as possible, and JT promised to help schedule our talks in a preferable order. So, for this weekend, here are your tasks! :-D 1. Read the latest version of the PDL::Book. 2. Make plans to get to Madison this June. 3. Email editorial suggestions about the PDL::Book to the mailing list. 4. Consider talking about some of your coolest PDL-based applications. 5. Email your talk topics to the mailing list. David -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
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