[Ottawa-pm] Fwd: [pm_groups] Pittsburgh Perl Workshop Oct 11-12, 2008
Yanick Champoux
yanick at babyl.dyndns.org
Sun Sep 28 09:47:40 PDT 2008
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.
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