[Buffalo-pm] Damian Conway in Toronto -- final details

[Richard Dice]

Hi everyone,

The details are finalized for the Damian trip.  Looking forward to
seeing people out at his talks this week!

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What:   Perl 6 Update

When:   Monday July 3 (Canada Day stat holiday)
        1:00 - 5:00 pm
        please aim for arriving around 12:45pm

Where:  2 Bloor Street West (CIBC Tower, our usual TPM meeting spot),
        which is at the NW corner of Yonge & Bloor in downtown Toronto

        Room # and Floor # as yet to be determined.
        
        Note that building access could be tightly controlled, as will
        elevator access, so we'll have to work according to a system of 
        pre-planned pick-up times as well as phone calls up via cellphone
        to get the ferryman to pick you up.

Other:  Dinner & beer follows, 5:30 pm - ??
        Location:  as yet unknown... we'll just pick a place in the
        neighbourhood to go following the talk.

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What:   Toronto BarCamp DemoCamp
        Damian will give a 15 minute demonstration of the Perl 6 language
        (That's right -- Perl 6, now!)  (4 other presenters each have a 
        chunk of time there too)
When:   Tuesday July 4
        6:30 - 8:00 pm
        Likely Damian will be speaking towards the end of this time range
Where:  see more/full details at: http://barcamp.org/TorCampDemoCamp7

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What:   "Fun With Dead Languages"
         http://damian.conway.org/Seminars//DeadLanguages.html
When:   Wednesday July 5
        6:30 - 9:00 pm
Where:  U. of Toronto
        Bahen Centre (40 St. George Street, on the w. side of St.
        George just slightly to the north of College)
        Room # 1180
        http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=40+St+George+St,+Toronto,+ON,+Canada&ie=UTF8&ll=43.66039,-79.39682&spn=0.014002,0.043259&om=1

    Watch in mesmerized terror as Damian hacks code in five unrelated
    languages (none of them Perl). Along the way, you'll also learn
    about modern archaeological techniques, bidirectional cross-
    dressing, Ancient Greeks hackers, improbable romances, the real Club
    Med, why programmers shouldn't frequent casinos, the language of
    moisture vaporators, C++ mysticism, conversational Latin, state
    machines on steroids, feeding the dog the old-fashioned way, the
    shocking truth about anime, programming without variables or
    subroutines, the Four Voids of the Apocalypse, Microsoft's new
    advertising campaign, what the Romans used instead of braces,
    drunken stonemasons, the ancient probabilistic wisdom of bodkins,
    how to kill a language with a single byte, and the price of fish.

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Fundraising
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There are some costs associated with his trip here, so I am taking up
a collection to cover the costs.  Any additional money raised will be
given to Damian as an honorarium, in support of such an active Perl
community member who has supported us so much whenever we use Perl
In fact, I aim for there to be such a surplus so that we can help
Damian out while he tours North America this summer.  If you can and
would like to donate please email me.

Please note that all of Damian's public talks are free and that he's
committed to all of them, regardless of funds raised.  All are 
encouraged to attend -- the more, the merrier!

Also note that Fulko Hew has set up a PayPal link to help, in case
that's your bag: http://www.hew.ca/

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About Damian
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For those who don't know Damian, he's from Melbourne, Australian, a 
professor of Computer Science at Monash University who has taken a
more-or-less indefinite leave of absence so that he can work on the
Perl 6 effort.  (He's Larry Wall's #2 man in the design of the Perl
6 language.)  He's also an active contributor to Perl 5, authoring
more CPAN modules than you can comfortably shake a stick at, some
being ridiculous (Coy, Acme::Bleach) while others are profound
(Parse::RecDescent, Regexp::Common, Text::Balanced).

He's a regular speaker at Perl and other IT conferences around the
world, and a crowd favourite.

His Perl books:

   "Perl Best Practices"   http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlbp/
   "Object Oriented Perl"  http://www.manning.com/conway/

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Any questions, comments, etc. -- just email me!

Cheers,
Richard