I may be able to give a talk on clustering text documents using PDL. How long are your talks? How long a talk do you think I should aim for?
Best, Maggie On Feb 14, 2012 9:07 AM, "David Mertens" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:33 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 >> >> > This is a follow-up to my original email from a few weeks ago. I realized > this morning that I had yet to submit one of my talk ideas because I had > been waiting to hear from others. I have submitted my second talk idea > (interactive data analysis with PDL and Prima) and would encourage > everybody to attend this year and submit talks on PDL! > > David > > P.S. Also, I am trying to find a way to get to Baltimore for mid-April > (announced here by Mike Burns), and I would encourage any PDL people on the > east coast to try to attend: http://dcbpw.org/dcbpw2012/ > > -- > "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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