[Buffalo-pm] Damian Conway to speak in Toronto Wednesday July 16th (evening); talk and venue details here

Daniel Magnuszewski dmagnuszewski at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 6 12:08:38 PDT 2008


I'm planning on going. I saw Ben B. last night, and he said that he's planning on going as well.

Anyone else?

-Dan


----- Original Message ----
From: Kevin Eye <eye at buffalo.edu>
To: buffalo-pm <buffalo-pm at mail.pm.org>
Sent: Friday, June 6, 2008 11:41:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Buffalo-pm] Damian Conway to speak in Toronto Wednesday July 16th (evening); talk and venue details here

A world-permiere talk from Damian, so close by? Kind of a must-see in my
opinion. I'm definitely interested in this. Assuming others are as well, we
can arrange some car-pooling as the date approaches.

- Kevin


On 6/2/08 12:09 PM, "Richard Dice" <rdice at pobox.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> Save the date!  The evening of Wed 16 July 2008, Damian Conway, Perl expert
> extraordinaire, Open Source luminary, and long-time friend of the Toronto
> Perl Mongers, will deliver -- free and to the public -- one of his signature
> tour-de-force completely insane talks that is 1/3 high-end IT, 1/3
> showmanship and 1/3 peyote-fuelled hallucination.  Here are the details:
> 
> Talk:
> 
> "Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming in
>  Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic
>  Parallel Timespaces... Made Easy"
> 
> This will be the world premiere of the talk.
> 
> Date:      Wednesday 16 July 2008
> Time:      6:30pm - 9pm
> Location:  Bahen Centre for Information Technology, University of Toronto
>            40 St. George Street (w. side of street, just north of College
> Ave.
>            Room # BA 1160
> 
> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=+40+St.+George+Street,+Toront
> o&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.052328,95.009766&ie=UTF8&ll=43.659986,-79.396
> 745&spn=0.004137,0.011598&z=17&iwloc=addr
> 
> As I have done the past 4 times Damian has come to Toronto to give talks I
> will take up a collection.  This is to help defray expenses and to provide
> Damian with an honorarium for the talk.  Donations are completely
> voluntary.  If you feel motivated and/or in the right place financially to
> make a donation please get in touch with me or visit the Paypal links at
> http://hew.ca/.  The Toronto Perl Mongers and the other groups who have
> attended Damian's talks have always been incredibly generous in supporting
> Damian whenever he has visited in the past and both he and I thank everyone
> for all the support he has received over the years.
> 
> Cheers,
>  - Richard
> 
> PS  For those of you who don't know Damian, here is some background info on
> him.  He's _not_ just a Perl hacker.  If you're into IT in any way, shape or
> form prepare to have your mind blown...
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway
> http://damian.conway.org/About_us//Bio_formal.html
> http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=damian+conway&type=1 -- I like the
> "... is my personal savior" one
> http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/speaker/4710  -- we are
> getting his OSCON 2008 keynote delivered here first!
> http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail880.html -- to hear one of
> his previous OSCON keynote talks (although this talk, as is the case with
> all his talks, is really enhanced by the slideshow that goes along with it)
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