[Mpls-pm] Next meeting?

[Dave Rolsky]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Gary Vollink wrote:

> On 10/26/05, Jim Anderson <jim at acadcam.com> wrote:
>> Personally, I'd like to see more 'intro' talks for people that haven't
>> been doing advanced perl stuff, or have only gotten into some areas.
>
> *Ahhh*
> That's me, relieved.  I realize that I am walking among a few
> super-advanced folk, and was starting to wonder why I spoke up about
> GD (which, for those whom already use it, it's fairly straight
> forward).  I certainly don't have anything super-advanced to show off.

I think that a fair number of the people who come to tech meetings are not 
Perl experts, nor do they program mostly in Perl at work.  I think lots of 
people come because they use Perl for hobby projects, or because they use 
it some of the time at work along with other tools.  I think the speakers 
tend to skew perceptions a bit since they often tend to be the most 
experienced Perl folks.

One of the goals of the lightning talks is to lower the barrier to entry 
for speaking.  It's a lot to ask for someone to give a 60+ minute talk on 
a topic, but 5-10 minutes is doable by anyone, and doesn't really require 
depth of expertise.  It's also good for people who don't have speaking 
experience, since it's less pressure and a good way to start getting 
experience.


-dave

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