[Van-pm] June meeting

[Helen Cook]

Hello,

Ok, time to plan a meeting for early June.  

Would you be more inclined to come out for a lecture style presentation
to learn something rather than to a more social sort of get-together?  

Maybe you just want to show off your latest project.  Who wants to give
a talk?  Let's have a bunch of speakers, each with 15-20 minutes to
present their projects, hacks, obsessions, peeves.  We're not going for
lightning talk rapidity here, nor the pressure of giving a full length
presentation.  Tell us why you did what you did, what you would have
done differently, what worked particularly elegantly, you know, why it's
cool.  This could also be a useful way to get feedback on a project
that's in progress, or to practice a talk (Dorian?).  Simple stuff is
fine, and probably better than overly elaborate, complicated things..
though they also have their charm.  

Some examples:
    
  My favourite way to do i/o with Perl
  How I made two formerly incompatible things talk to each other
  Perl's place between open source statistics and graphing packages
  Regex engine hacks (Will?)
  ...
  
Any takers?
  
--h