[SPUG-Workers] get mark jason dominus to visit this summer?

[jerry gay]

On 3/14/06, Kevin Fink <kevin-spug at fink.com> wrote:
> > mjd is working on a new book, and is doing a "Code Review World Tour"
> > in order to help write the book and promote it. from his posted
> > schedule (http://perl.plover.com/flagbook/tour.html) he'll be in
> > portland for oscon.
> >
> > continuing our recent trend of getting great post-oscon speakers who
> > are in the neighborhood, i'd like to get him to come give a talk at
> > spug in august. i'd be happy to host him for his stay, if necessary.
> > there are some prerequirements for the visit, which include submission
> > of code for him to refactor and use during his talk. i think it could
> > be truly enlightening, and i'm hoping others will feel similar. if so,
> > let's get in touch with him soon, and make this happen.
>
> Sounds like a good idea to me.  WhitePages.com would be happy to host
> the talk (at a regular or special SPUG meeting), help with travel
> expenses, and may be able to provide some code to review.
>
that's wonderful news, and quite generous!
i'll forward the request to mark, and see if he's up for it.

~jerry