[VPM] OSCON 2005 (was Re: May meeting)

[Darren Duncan]

At 2:03 PM -0700 5/9/05, Peter Scott wrote:
>So our next meeting would be on May 17... any volunteers to talk?
>Last week I dropped in on the Los Angeles Perl Mongers meeting at
>Wahoo's Fish Tacos in Pasadena.  There were three OSCON/YAPC presenters
>there, not bad for a meeting of 6 people :-)

You seem to do a lot of travelling.

Will you be at OSCON 2005?  Can you think of ways that I might get in 
cheaply if my offer to volunteer was turned down (a few months ago) 
and I'm not giving a talk?  I want to go but the cost may be 
prohibitive.  How do you afford it?

Also, how easy is it to get into a Lightning Talk, and how much prep 
work is usually involved.  I'm wondering whether I should be trying 
to get on stage or not at my very first perl/oss conference, or 
whether that should be left to more experienced people.  If I did go 
up, my lightning talk would be related to SQL::Routine I expect, in 
an introductory style.

-- Darren Duncan