If anybody would be interested in giving a PDL talk before YAPC in order to get a little practice in we would love to have you come to our conference in Balitmore on April 14th. The web site is http://dcbpw.org/dcbpw2012/and of course if you'd like to come just to listen to talks we'd love to have you all the same!
Mike B. On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:33 PM, David Mertens <[email protected]>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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > >
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