[Chicago-talk] June meeting cancelled -- Speakers Needed for July

[Doug Bell]

Yep. I should've mentioned: If we've got 2-3 (or more) people who want to give smaller talks in a single meeting, that's what we'll do. If a couple people want to do the same topic, we'll open it up for others to join in (and of course there's always time to discuss the topic and other things).

> On Jun 17, 2016, at 9:20 PM, Jason A. Crome <cromedome at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> How about a meeting full of lightning talks? It’s a great way to get
> everyone involved, and it’s easy for anyone to get up and speak for
> five minutes about something they are passionate about. I’d be happy
> to talk on a couple of different topics for that.
> 
> I’d be happy to do a perlbrew/plenv/Carton talk in August or September too.
> 
> Jason
> 
> On June 17, 2016 at 9:16:00 PM, Doug Bell (madcityzen at gmail.com) wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> Unfortunately, I have to cancel next week's meeting. I've been busy preparing for The
>> Perl Conference (formerly YAPC) and couldn't secure a venue+host combination since
>> both Joel and I will be out next week.
>> 
>> Everything will be back to normal for July, but we need some topic ideas for our next meetings.
>> You can talk about whatever you want, as long as it's something related to technology,
>> working with technology, or working in the tech industry. If it's tangentially-related
>> to Perl, all's the better.
>> 
>> Below are some potential topic ideas if you’ve got knowledge and would like to talk about
>> it. You can talk for as little as 10 minutes to as much as an hour (or even a bit longer).
>> 
>> If you’d like to propose a topic, e-mail me and let me know what you'd like to discuss and
>> when you're available. For some examples of topics already discussed at meetings, see
>> http://chicago.pm.org/talks/.
>> 
>> ## Topic Ideas
>> 
>> This document is available on Google Docs if you've got additional topic ideas you'd
>> like to see. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FLJS2xUA4K1eMDL7kCUbY__zWuN62nRgorGxf4AOsK4/edit?usp=sharing
>> 
>> ### Introduction To…
>> 
>> * DBI
>> * DBIx::Class
>> * Rex (http://rexify.org)
>> * Dist::Zilla
>> * Catalyst
>> * perlbrew / plenv / carton
>> * PDL
>> * Moose
>> * Perl::Critic
>> 
>> ### Soft squishy things
>> 
>> * Reports on other groups/conferences/meetings you’ve attended
>> * How I got my team to use Perl
>> * Why it’s so hard to hire Perl programmers
>> * How to talk to management about X
>> * How I use Perl in my hobby
>> * How I saved lots of work for my church by using Perl
>> * How I put my FitBit’s graphs to shame with Perl
>> * How I handle working in both Windows and Unix Perl
>> * How life in Perl on Platform X is different from Platform Y
>> * What’s in your ~/bin?
>> * All about the work I have done on project X
>> * All the projects I’ve contributed to, and why
>> 
>> ### How To … in Perl
>> 
>> * Scrape websites
>> * Work with Excel files
>> * Handle character encoding
>> * Perl alternatives for those coming from other languages
>> * Functional programming in Perl (List::Util List::UtilsBy Iterators Syntax::Keyword::Junction)
>> * Microservices
>> * Write a module
>> 
>> ### Learning Perl
>> 
>> * Write an automated test
>> * What are references?
>> * How to use CPAN
>> * How to release to CPAN
>> * Perl one-liners
>> * Working with files
>> 
>> ### Related new technologies
>> 
>> * Nginx
>> * ElasticSearch / Solr
>> * R
>> * Docker
>> 
>> ### Tangentially-Related
>> 
>> * Basic UNIX shell
>> * Building Relational Database Schemas
>> * GNU Make
>> * Using version control systems
>> * Continuous Integration
>> * HTML and CSS
>> 
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