This is exciting! I would love for there to be PDL talks at YAPC.
Lightening talks are good but I also think the longer duration ones
should be submitted. Don't underestimate how much we all love science.
I think these talks will generate a lot of interest. I also like the
idea of both a tutorial one and "this how I used it in solving a real
problem" talk. I can't wait for YAPC now!
Mike
On 01/27/2012 11:33 PM, David Mertens wrote:
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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