From szabgab at gmail.com Thu Nov 5 04:24:58 2009 From: szabgab at gmail.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:24:58 +0200 Subject: [Rehovot-pm] Rehovot Perl Mongers - first meeting on 17 November Message-ID: Hi, this list was dormant in last 3 years so let's wake it up a bit. Thanks to Dr. Jaime Prilusky we are going to have a fixed place for monthly meetings in the Weizmann Institute of Science. First meeting: Date: ? ? ? ?Tuesday November 17, 2009 from 18:00-22:00 Location: ? Room 101 in the Levine Building (number 30 on the map at ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://www.weizmann.ac.il/maps/campus3.gif and ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://www.weizmann.ac.il/maps/all_campus.pdf) ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? The Weizmann Institute is a few minutes walk from the Rehovot ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? train station, shown in the maps. Content: 18:00-19:00 We are going to have one or possibly two speakers giving an overview about Matlab. Then someone - possibly me - will introduce PDL - the Perl Data Language. 19:00-22:00 We'll start to work in pairs learning to use PDL in general and as a replacement of Matlab. We will write example script and add to the documentation of PDL with a focus on the "PDL for Matlab users" document I started to write a few days ago: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pdl/index.php?title=PDL_for_Matlab_users ? ? ? ?PDL: http://pdl.perl.org/ ? ? ?Matlab: http://www.mathworks.com/ Who should attend? I think both Matlab users without Perl experience and Perl programmers without Matlab experience will be able to learn and to contribute. So both groups are welcome! Even if you don't have much experience in either of those you can come and see what are we doing. Fee: ? ? ? ?Entrance is free of charge. RSVP: ? ? If you are planning to come to the meeting please send me an e-mail so I'll?have a rough estimate of the number of people. PR: ? ? ? ? Please forward this message to people in companies and higher-educational institutes ?that could be interested Question: if you have any questions, please ask it on the mailing list. regards ? ?Gabor -- Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/blog.html From szabgab at gmail.com Tue Nov 17 00:31:56 2009 From: szabgab at gmail.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:31:56 +0200 Subject: [Rehovot-pm] Reminder: Rehovot Perl Mongers meeting today at 18:00 Message-ID: Details here: http://szabgab.com/blog/2009/11/1257443063.html Gabor From szabgab at gmail.com Wed Nov 25 05:01:52 2009 From: szabgab at gmail.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:01:52 +0200 Subject: [Rehovot-pm] Rehovot Perl Mongers - schedule - call for speakers Message-ID: I know I still owe you with the meeting report - it is mostly written I just need to upload it to my blog. In the meantime, in order to make it easier for everyone to plan for the future meetings Jaime made sure that we have the room for use on the following dates: 2009 Dec 22 2010 Jan 19 2010 Feb 16 2010 Mar 16 2010 April 13 So these are the dates of the next 5 meetings of the Rehovot Perl Mongers. Standard hours are 18:00-22:00 Now I am looking for volunteers to give talks on these meetings. Regarding subjects, we already had a few suggestions in this thread: http://mail.perl.org.il/pipermail/perl/2009-October/010640.html but now I am looking for speakers for the specific dates along with title of the talk, length of the talk and a few lines of explaining what the talk is about. On the next meeting I'd like to continue with a real introduction to PDL - I hope we'll have a speaker for that but I am open for other talk suggestions as well. You can suggest anything between a 5 minute lightning talk and 60 minute long talk and we can have several talks every time. An important issue that I have learned from the previous meeting is that we need to prepare actual exercises or tasks people who just listened to the talk. People who might be afraid to give a talk, please try to overcome it :-) We are usually a friendly bunch of people. In any case you might first consider to give a 5 minute talk on a specific issue just to get the feeling. Offers can come either on the list or in private mail. regards Gabor