[pm-h] Thursday

G. Wade Johnson gwadej at anomaly.org
Tue Mar 11 19:12:01 PDT 2014


On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:26:21 -0700 (PDT)
Mark Allen <mrallen1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I would really like to run through it with a group of people who are
> truly new to Erlang and see with "new eyes" what I'm trying to
> communicate.

It's sounding like we have a new plan.

Mark can do Introducing Erlang and we'll fill the remaining time with
lightning talks. (Some subset of the three we have, or any others that
want to volunteer.)

Looks like I need to change the announcement again.<grin/>

G. Wade

> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 1:14 PM, Todd Rinaldo <toddr at cpanel.net>
> wrote: 
> I kinda like the last one.
> 
> 
> On Mar 11, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Mark Allen <mrallen1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> The last is a workshop "bring your laptop" type-thing
> >
> >
> >The other talks could be anywhere from 10-50 minutes long
> >
> >
> >
> >On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 11:21 AM, G. Wade Johnson
> ><gwadej at anomaly.org> wrote:
> > 
> >On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:02:56 -0700 (PDT)
> >Mark Allen <mrallen1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I can give talks on one or more of the following topics Thursday:
> >> 
> >> * Functional list operations in Perl (map, filter, fold)
> >> * Using roles for object composition when building Perl web clients
> >> * Packaging Perl applications using Docker
> >> * Introducing Erlang (a new side project I'm working on to get
> >> programmers who have some experience up and running with Erlang
> >> and a non-trivial application under an hour.)
> >> 
> >> Do any of those sound interesting?
> >
> >Are these full presentations, or lightning talks? (Some look big and
> >others could be quicker.)
> >
> >G. Wade
> >
> >
> >> Mark
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:49 AM, G. Wade Johnson
> >> <gwadej at anomaly.org> wrote: 
> >> On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:14:24 -0500
> >> Todd Rinaldo <todd at rinaldo.us> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > All,
> >> > 
> >> > My original offer was to do a 5 minute lightning talk on
> >> > Mail::SpamAssassin. I do not actually have content for a full
> >> > meeting.
> >> 
> >> Actually, so far I have 3 lightning talks (including yours) lined
> >> up.
> >> 
> >> 1. Todd: Email SPAM
> >> 2. Reini: Global Destruction
> >> 3. Wade: Tweaking gcode files
> >> 
> >> Come on people, we can get a few more talks lined up. It's only 5
> >> minutes.
> >> 
> >> Last time we did the lightning talks, we had requests from the
> >> audience to fill out some of the time. But a starting list of talks
> >> would definitely make things easier.
> >> 
> >> > It sounds like we have no talk on Thursday. I propose a social
> >> > meeting. Who's up for it. I got sick so couldn't attend when we
> >> > tried Empire Cafe last time. How did that venue work out?
> >> 
> >> As I recall, spacing was kind of tight at Empire Cafe (and the
> >>
>  construction on Westheimer made getting there loads of fun).
> >> 
> >> G. Wade
> >
> >
> >-- 
> >C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder,
> >but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.     -- Bjarne
> >Stroustrup
> >
> >
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> Todd Rinaldo
> toddr at cpanel.net


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