[Mpls-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Workshop Oct 11-12, 2008 (fwd)

[Dave Rolsky]

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Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:26:05 -0400
From: Robert Blackwell <robert at robertblackwell.com>
To: pm_groups at pm.org
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.