Hello Fellow Mongers and LINUX integrators!! This is the official announcement of the PUNY SIG first meeting: Tue Feb 22, 6:00 pm @ IBM, 57th and Madison Ave
Since my consulting corp, CXN, Inc., is a NYSIA member and all mongers and linux sig members are automatically CXN associates you will not have to pay the $20 fee. Please, please email me first with your mailing address so I can send you some attractive business cards. The agenda is thus: First, I will demonstrate the impossible, teaching newbies perl in 5 minutes !! Then I will need mongers to volunteer to give short descriptions of how perl helped them drive business model (loosely defined) I will give a demo of my own engine, the DepthDB and its thinclient, Depth.cgi <a href=http://www.thinman.com/Depth.html> DepthDB </a> The meeting will then be thrown open for feedback on future plans, sorta like a democracy :) The deeper agenda: ...or just look at the site:<a href=http://www.thinman.com/puny> PUNY </a> PUNY is being carefully designed to meet a variety of perl and business needs: * Our technology and philosophy is brought directly to business and the s/w industry. With frequent open technical meetings we can meet people can assist the creative growth of perl as well as understand how perl can help their own operations; our contribution needs to be taken more seriously. * Create an open venue to plan around such alarming issues as the DVD crisis, refund-day, and the intellectual property laws. We can easily bring in experts to detail how these issues directly affect the future of perl. * Create workshops to bring in the physical layer in cooperation w/ the C++ Sig and the educational system. Perl should, IMHO, be offered in the high schools as an optional course and it should be a staple of normal government administration. Other important issues: * Integrating EMACS a lot better, understanding where LISP fits in * Method (rather than file) version control * The prospect of seeing perl compete directly w/ java * Perl on PDAs, replacing shell in unix, start looking at the new OSs * Educating a new generation of porters in c++ and the pragmas * Fine beers and single malts The list actually goes on, and I have some grandiose plans for actual business applications. I should also mention that I am personally starting to feel familial bonds, especially after YAPC, and that perl has a destiny and I will be really depressed if gets sold short. >From the geekcode: "Perl combines the power of sh, the clarity of sed, and the performance of awk with the simplicity of C. It should be banned" See you there ( or actually email me first !! ) ===== John van Vlaanderen ############################################# # CXN, Inc. Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # # Proud Sponsor of Perl/Unix of NY # # http://www.thinman.com/puny # ############################################# __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
