[Detroit-pm] [Fwd: [pm_groups] Pittsburgh Perl Workshop Oct 11-12, 2008]

[Bill Hess]

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Subject: 	[pm_groups] Pittsburgh Perl Workshop Oct 11-12, 2008
Date: 	Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:26:05 -0400
From: 	Robert Blackwell <robert at robertblackwell.com>
To: 	pm_groups at pm.org





Please forward this to your local Perl Monger group and anywhere you 
think might find people that would be interested.

Thanks
Robert Blackwell


The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is a low-cost technical conference held at 
the Carnegie Mellon University's Oakland Campus. The workshop will be 
held on October 11–12 2008.

* Classes

This year we are offering three great classes:

Dan Klein is back teaching From Zero to Perl.
http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/zerotoperl.html

Peter Scott - Maintaining Code While Staying Sane
http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/maintainingcode.html

brian d foy - Mastering Perl
http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/masteringperl.html

* Great Talks

The schedule can be found here http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/schedule.

* Hack-a-thons

We are having Pagtrick Michaud lead a Rakudo, (Perl 6) hack-a-thon.

* Bug Labs 

Bug Labs, http://buglabs.net will be giving a talk and having a hands on 
demo of their hardware.
We will also be giving details about a development grant for someone 
wanting to develop something with perl with Bug Labs hardware.

* GPU/CUDA

Have you been hearing about coding with your Graphics Card?  Well if not 
you will soon.  We are having a talk about coding with the GPU and a lab 
using Nvida's Cuda technology. 
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html

* Community 

Come see old perl friends and make some new ones.  We will have plenty 
of social activities at night.


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