job talk/symposium

[Abigail]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 10:59:47PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> On 03/11/2014 09:29 AM, Ya'akov Sloman wrote:
>> Unfortunately, I have been dealing with power-outage-related disasters at work.  Recovering a critical array and standing up replacement services.  Until that's clear volunteer activities are on the back burner.
>>
>> I will get back to it ASAP though.
>>
>
> hi yaakov,
>
> hopefully your power outages haven't lasted the last 6 weeks since we  
> left this thread. any news on the symposium or is it too late to get it  
> on the schedule? regardless of that happening, i will run a perl jobs  
> bof again. it is more informal and last year we shared a lot of job  
> stories and such. hard to do that sort of thing in an organized  
> symposium. also the first time i help the bof in yapc::madison we had  
> about 10 attendees at a nearby bratwurst pub. last year in austin we had  
> over 20 attendees in the cafeteria. i would like to find a place to hold  
> it this year with enough room and more quiet. maybe it can be held after  
> 5pm in one of the rooms used for talks? who/what/where would this be  
> reserved? we lucked out last year with a much longer lunch period that  
> day and we used up the whole time (like 90 minutes) as we had plenty of  
> stories and i had plenty of ideas to share.


If such a panel is going to happen, I'd be interested in participating.
Working for a shop that assimilates developers at a rate of more than one
per week, I may have something to contribute.



Abigail