<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">I'm planning on going. I saw Ben B. last night, and he said that he's planning on going as well.<br><br>Anyone else?<br><br>-Dan<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Kevin Eye <eye@buffalo.edu><br>To: buffalo-pm <buffalo-pm@mail.pm.org><br>Sent: Friday, June 6, 2008 11:41:14 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Buffalo-pm] Damian Conway to speak in Toronto Wednesday July 16th (evening); talk and venue details here<br><br>
A world-permiere talk from Damian, so close by? Kind of a must-see in my<br>opinion. I'm definitely interested in this. Assuming others are as well, we<br>can arrange some car-pooling as the date approaches.<br><br> - Kevin<br><br><br>On 6/2/08 12:09 PM, "Richard Dice" <<a ymailto="mailto:rdice@pobox.com" href="mailto:rdice@pobox.com">rdice@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Hi everyone,<br>> <br>> Save the date! The evening of Wed 16 July 2008, Damian Conway, Perl expert<br>> extraordinaire, Open Source luminary, and long-time friend of the Toronto<br>> Perl Mongers, will deliver -- free and to the public -- one of his signature<br>> tour-de-force completely insane talks that is 1/3 high-end IT, 1/3<br>> showmanship and 1/3 peyote-fuelled hallucination. Here are the details:<br>> <br>> Talk:<br>> <br>> "Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming in<br>> Multiple Topologically Connected
Quantum-Relativistic<br>> Parallel Timespaces... Made Easy"<br>> <br>> This will be the world premiere of the talk.<br>> <br>> Date: Wednesday 16 July 2008<br>> Time: 6:30pm - 9pm<br>> Location: Bahen Centre for Information Technology, University of Toronto<br>> 40 St. George Street (w. side of street, just north of College<br>> Ave.<br>> Room # BA 1160<br>> <br>> <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=+40+St.+George+Street,+Toront" target="_blank">http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=+40+St.+George+Street,+Toront</a><br>> o&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.052328,95.009766&ie=UTF8&ll=43.659986,-79.396<br>> 745&spn=0.004137,0.011598&z=17&iwloc=addr<br>> <br>> As I have done the past 4 times
Damian has come to Toronto to give talks I<br>> will take up a collection. This is to help defray expenses and to provide<br>> Damian with an honorarium for the talk. Donations are completely<br>> voluntary. If you feel motivated and/or in the right place financially to<br>> make a donation please get in touch with me or visit the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.paypal.com/">Paypal</a> links at<br>> <a href="http://hew.ca/" target="_blank">http://hew.ca/</a>. The Toronto Perl Mongers and the other groups who have<br>> attended Damian's talks have always been incredibly generous in supporting<br>> Damian whenever he has visited in the past and both he and I thank everyone<br>> for all the support he has received over the years.<br>> <br>> Cheers,<br>> - Richard<br>> <br>> PS For those of you who don't know Damian, here is some background info on<br>> him. He's _not_
just a Perl hacker. If you're into IT in any way, shape or<br>> form prepare to have your mind blown...<br>> <br>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway</a><br>> <a href="http://damian.conway.org/About_us//Bio_formal.html" target="_blank">http://damian.conway.org/About_us//Bio_formal.html</a><br>> <a href="http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=damian+conway&type=1" target="_blank">http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=damian+conway&type=1</a> -- I like the<br>> "... is my personal savior" one<br>> <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/speaker/4710" target="_blank">http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/speaker/4710</a> -- we are<br>> getting his OSCON 2008 keynote delivered here first!<br>> <a href="http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail880.html"
target="_blank">http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail880.html</a> -- to hear one of<br>> his previous OSCON keynote talks (although this talk, as is the case with<br>> all his talks, is really enhanced by the slideshow that goes along with it)<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Buffalo Perl Mongers Homepage<br>> <a href="http://buffalo.pm.org" target="_blank">http://buffalo.pm.org</a><br>> <br>> Buffalo-pm mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:Buffalo-pm@pm.org" href="mailto:Buffalo-pm@pm.org">Buffalo-pm@pm.org</a><br>> <a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/buffalo-pm" target="_blank">http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/buffalo-pm</a><br><br>-- <br>Kevin Eye<br>Web Applications Developer<br>University Communications<br>University at Buffalo<br>330 Crofts Hall<br>Buffalo, NY 14260<br><a ymailto="mailto:eye@buffalo.edu" href="mailto:eye@buffalo.edu">eye@buffalo.edu</a><br>phone (716)
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