[Omaha.pm] Lightning Talks from UNO on Perl! :)

[Jay Hannah]

On Nov 20, 2005, at 11:22 PM, Robert wrote:
> The course covers Perl, Apache and CGI.

Hey, that's a big chunk of my career in a nutshell. -grin-

>    But, to the meat of this posting.  My students are going to be
> giving a two-week series of 5-minute lightning talks on Tuesday,
> November 29th and Tuesday, December 6th from 6:00 PM until 7:30 PM
> each evening at the Peter Kiewit Institute at 68th and Pacific.
>
>    Though they would probably prefer that I don't :), I'd like to
> invite you to the talks.  I've attached a PDF (and if that doesn't
> come through, I'll send along a plaintext version and post it to the
> course website).

Thanks for the invite! I'll be there.

(I'm stunned, but that .pdf will not render on my Mac. Works fine in 
Windows. Wow, that's a first. -grin-)

>    Actually, we also have about three or four open talk slots if
> anyone is interested in doing something on December 6th.  Just drop me
> a line and let me know and we'll see what we can work out.

I could probably whip up something interesting. The trick for me, 
lightning talk virgin, will be limiting my long winded self to 5m. I 
witnessed and enjoyed the phenomenon at O'Reilly's Open Source 
Convention 2003. It's a great format, especially when some of the 
presenters are totally looney. I'll try to come up with some proposals 
for your consideration. I'm impressed with your run-down already listed 
on the .pdf. Looks like some great material!

Who's doing the bit on Perl in Bioinformatics? I just got involved with 
the bioperl.org people, and am fascinated by genetics research.

j