[pm-h] Fw: [pm_groups] Pittsburgh Perl Workshop Oct 11-12, 2008

G. Wade Johnson gwadej at anomaly.org
Sat Sep 27 20:15:58 PDT 2008



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Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:26:05 -0400
From: Robert Blackwell <robert at robertblackwell.com>
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Subject: [pm_groups] Pittsburgh Perl Workshop Oct 11-12, 2008




Please forward this to your local Perl Monger group and anywhere you  
think might find people that would be interested.

Thanks
Robert Blackwell


The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is a low-cost technical conference held  
at the Carnegie Mellon University's Oakland Campus. The workshop will  
be held on October 11–12 2008.

* Classes

This year we are offering three great classes:

Dan Klein is back teaching From Zero to Perl.
http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/zerotoperl.html

Peter Scott - Maintaining Code While Staying Sane
http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/maintainingcode.html

brian d foy - Mastering Perl
http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/masteringperl.html

* Great Talks

The schedule can be found here http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/schedule.

* Hack-a-thons

We are having Pagtrick Michaud lead a Rakudo, (Perl 6) hack-a-thon.

* Bug Labs

Bug Labs, http://buglabs.net will be giving a talk and having a hands  
on demo of their hardware.
We will also be giving details about a development grant for someone  
wanting to develop something with perl with Bug Labs hardware.

* GPU/CUDA

Have you been hearing about coding with your Graphics Card?  Well if  
not you will soon.  We are having a talk about coding with the GPU and  
a lab using Nvida's Cuda technology.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html

* Community

Come see old perl friends and make some new ones.  We will have plenty  
of social activities at night.




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