From matth at everysoft.com Fri Nov 5 19:38:01 2004 From: matth at everysoft.com (Matt Hahnfeld) Date: Fri Nov 5 19:38:25 2004 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-announce] Lightning Talks and Competition FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3! Message-ID: Hi all! Because of Thanksgiving and Christmas, we'll be holding November's Perl Mongers Meeting a week late -- or December's Perl Mongers meeting a few weeks early. However you want to look at it, the next Perl Mongers meeting will be FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3. We'll meet at 11:30am at Priority Health (1239 E. Beltline NE in Grand Rapids). There WILL be signs posted to point you to the right place. Now for the twist! The next meeting will have two parts. The first 30 minutes of the meeting will consist of lightning talks presented by Perl Mongers members. Lightning talks are 5-10 minute presentations on interesting Perl topics. If you're interested in presenting a lightning talk, please let Al Tobey or me know before the next meeting (my e-mail address should be at the top of this e-mail). The second half of the meeting will be a competition. Everyone will split into 2-3 person teams (hopefully joining stronger coders with those who might not know Perl as well). Then all of the teams will be given a problem to solve. After about 30 minutes, we'll join back together and rate each team's Perl code on speed, elegance, and creativity. There will be prizes! You don't need to be a Perl wizard to participate in the competition, and everyone is encouraged to join in the fun. You don't even need to know Perl! This isn't anything formal -- just good entertainment. Please bring a laptop computer if you have one. If you don't have a computer that's fine too -- we'll have plenty available. Oh yeah, and we'll order lunch for those who are interested. Hope to see you there! Matt Hahnfeld President, Grand Rapids Perl Mongers