Todd,<br><br>I would definitely love to volunteer and help out in any and every way. Some of the project ideas suggested by Juan Natera are very interesting and I would very much like to collaborate with him.<br><br>Also, I wouldn't mind managing the booth evangelizing
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Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Re: LA-PM sponsoring a booth at SCALE? (Juan Jose Natera)<br> 2. Need more input: So far positive on a booth (Todd Cranston-Cuebas)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------
<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:26:19 -0800<br>From: "Juan Jose Natera" <<a href="mailto:naterajj@gmail.com">naterajj@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [LA.pm] LA-PM sponsoring a booth at SCALE?
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<br><br>Todd, I would like to volunteer as well.<br><br>Regarding demonstrations, I have a few suggestions:<br><br>* An OpenGL application, doing simple things in 3D.<br>* A Perl-GTK application.<br>* A wxPerl application.
<br>* A set of mod_perl "hacks", showing interesting things.<br><br>These are all things that are easy to show and/or that we can have<br>running continously at the Convention.<br><br>We could also give away mini CPAN CDs, all the latest Perl modules in
<br>a CD so people can keep a "mirror" of CPAN on their machines.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Juan Natera<br><br>On 12/8/06, Todd Cranston-Cuebas <<a href="mailto:Todd.Cranston-Cuebas@ticketmaster.com">Todd.Cranston-Cuebas@ticketmaster.com
</a>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>> I wanted to open discussions on this list as to whether the LA.pm would like<br>> to host a booth at the upcoming Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) to be<br>> held on the weekend of February 10th and 11th
<br>> (<a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/">http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/</a>). As a local user<br>> group, there would be NO COST! Trust me, that's a wonderful thing so I'd<br>> really like to take advantage of their generosity. I'll only do this though
<br>> if we can get members to volunteer to sign-up for specific spots to sit in<br>> the booth and evangelize for our favorite programming language.<br>><br>> I have attended this event for a few years and the turn out for open-source
<br>> minded individuals is just tremendous. This is a great opportunity to keep<br>> the buzz for perl alive in our area and perhaps have a very public forum for<br>> addressing specific misinformation that to my surprise never seems to go
<br>> away (e.g., perl is slow, perl can't scale, perl can't be used for building<br>> "real" applications, etc.).<br>><br>> The only requirement that SCALE organizers place on us is that we will have
<br>> to have live demonstration systems showing something related to perl at the<br>> show. They'll provide free internet access and power. We need to provide a<br>> few boxes showing "something" that we can demonstrate. This could be
<br>> examples of performance tests in operation, a perl-based rapid development<br>> framework, etc. I think it would be ideal if the demonstration could address<br>> one of perl's common misconceptions (e.g., performance, difficulty to use,
<br>> etc.) rather than just do something cryptic or esoteric.<br>><br>> In order to know if we should proceed, I'll need for everyone who is<br>> interested to reply.<br>><br>> 1). Should we have a booth?
<br>> 2). Will you take a time slot at the event (Sat-Sun - Feb 10-11). The length<br>> of the "slot" will depend on the number of volunteers.<br>> 3). Do you have an idea for a demonstration?<br>> 4). Will you help to build one or more demonstrations?
<br>><br>> Regards,<br>><br>> Todd<br>><br>> Todd Cranston-Cuebas<br>> Ticketmaster<br>> 8800 W. Sunset Blvd.<br>> West Hollywood, CA 90069<br>> Phone: (310) 360-2436; Mobile: (310) 422-3347<br>
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<br>From: Todd Cranston-Cuebas <<a href="mailto:Todd.Cranston-Cuebas@Ticketmaster.com">Todd.Cranston-Cuebas@Ticketmaster.com</a>><br>Subject: [LA.pm] Need more input: So far positive on a booth<br>To: <a href="mailto:losangeles-pm@pm.org">
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<br><br>So far, I have had a number of people contact me directly with a big<br>positive response to supporting a booth at SCALE. Please do me a favor and<br>respond back to the whole group so others can get a sense of how many people
<br>are supportive of the idea. I'll need volunteers to:<br><br>1). Do stints in the booth talking to people who might be interested in the<br>LA.pm specifically and perl in general. I'd expect the commitment to be<br>something in the range of 2-3 hours.
<br><br>2). I'd like to have a library of sample books available at the booth to<br>show people the support that perl has in the industry. I'd like someone to<br>coordinate borrowing books if necessary to have a nice representation at the
<br>desk. I have a number of books I can bring but I'd like someone responsible<br>for this.<br><br>3). I'll need a team (or two) of demo-builders. Here are some ideas...<br><br> A). Check out dataplace -- <<a href="http://www.dataplace.org/">
http://www.dataplace.org/</a>><br><a href="http://www.dataplace.org">http://www.dataplace.org</a> . We did get an offer to do a live demo on this<br>interesting site during the show. This is a mod_perl/MASON based system
<br>showing off some very fun web 2.0 stuff on this site supported by a<br>non-profit. If there can be some nice talk about the "behind-the-scenes" as<br>to how this was accomplished, I'd like to see this one demo'd.
<br><br>Also, I was emailing back-and-forth with Philippe Chiasson and I think there<br>were a few very good ideas that came from the conversation...<br><br> B). Something comparing cgi, fastcgi, mod_perl/prefork,<br>mod_perl/threaded, modperl::registry vs mod_perl-handler with an automated
<br>benchmark/graphing tool in semi real-time (i.e., live, cool graphics showing<br>off the major speed and performance achievable with modr-Per-handlers,<br>etc.).<br><br> C). A live demo of Jifty (the RonR type rapid web development
<br>framework). Catalyst could also be an option if we had somone very<br>familiarly. I think Jifty might be the better choice if someone is familiar<br>with it since it may have more demo "gee whiz" features. I think I could get
<br>this running but would be a poor demonstrator of anything of any depth.<br><br> D: We also had suggestions for the following demos... I'm open to all<br>but we need people to build them and be ready to show others who to show
<br>them off OR plan to be in the booth most of the time to do the demos.<br> * An OpenGL application, doing simple things in 3D.<br><br> * A Perl-GTK application.<br><br> * A wxPerl application.
<br><br> * A set of mod_perl "hacks", showing interesting things.<br><br>I'm not stuck on these ideas, so if you have a better idea, please let me<br>know. In the long-run, the deciding factor is going to be who jumps up and
<br>says "I'll work on this with Bob, Mary, Joe, etc. and pull this together for<br>the group." I'll be clear on this, I can't set up these demos since I'm too<br>much of a newbie.<br><br>4). People to volunteer machines for the demo. Ideally, this will be the
<br>people who create the demo in the first place since it would probably be<br>much easier to build and deploy on the same machine, but...<br><br>No money is involved here just to be part of the booth group. It's just some
<br>dedication of prep time and a willingness to give up a little of your<br>weekend. I know that weekend time is tough, but this is a great event to<br>help build the organization so we can continue to attract monthly speakers
<br>and even sponsor larger perl events.<br><br>I'll have to let the organizers know shortly, but I won't commit unless I<br>can get a good batch of vocal volunteers. Thanks all who have jumped in to<br>show support up to this point. Again, respond back to the main list.
<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Todd<br><br>Todd Cranston-Cuebas<br>Ticketmaster <<a href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/careers/">http://www.ticketmaster.com/careers/</a>><br>8800 W. Sunset Blvd.<br>West Hollywood, CA 90069<br>
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