[Classiccity-pm] guest speaker possibility

Darrell Golliher darrell at golliher.net
Thu Jan 15 11:17:08 CST 2004


On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:58:05AM -0500, Shawn Boyette wrote:
> I've recently become acquainted with petdance (AKA Andy Lester), one
> of the primary people behind the Phalanx project
> (http://qa.perl.org/phalanx/) and a pretty nice guy who likes to tour
> the country preaching the gospel of writing tests for all your perl
> code -- or at least anything designed to live more than a day or two.
> 
> He was actually considering DRIVING from Chicago to Athens, but
> eventually decided it was just too big a trip, and then pondered
> BUYING a plane ticket to fly himself down here and talk to us, but
> just couldn't spare the $200-300.
> 
> I certainly don't have any spare cash, so I'm not suggesting anyone
> else cough up anything, but if we ever do want a guest speaker with an
> actual reputation, and we're willing to chip in on travel expenses (he
> insists on not being paid to talk) I think we should remember Andy.
> 

  Cool.  I saw Andy speak at OSCON this past year.  He's great.

-darrell



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