[pm-h] Thursday

[Mark Allen]

Cool- looking forward to it!

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> On Mar 11, 2014, at 9:12 PM, "G. Wade Johnson" <gwadej at anomaly.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:26:21 -0700 (PDT)
> Mark Allen <mrallen1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> I would really like to run through it with a group of people who are
>> truly new to Erlang and see with "new eyes" what I'm trying to
>> communicate.
> 
> It's sounding like we have a new plan.
> 
> Mark can do Introducing Erlang and we'll fill the remaining time with
> lightning talks. (Some subset of the three we have, or any others that
> want to volunteer.)
> 
> Looks like I need to change the announcement again.<grin/>
> 
> G. Wade
> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 1:14 PM, Todd Rinaldo <toddr at cpanel.net>
>> wrote: 
>> I kinda like the last one.
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 11, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Mark Allen <mrallen1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The last is a workshop "bring your laptop" type-thing
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The other talks could be anywhere from 10-50 minutes long
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 11:21 AM, G. Wade Johnson
>>> <gwadej at anomaly.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:02:56 -0700 (PDT)
>>> Mark Allen <mrallen1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I can give talks on one or more of the following topics Thursday:
>>>> 
>>>> * Functional list operations in Perl (map, filter, fold)
>>>> * Using roles for object composition when building Perl web clients
>>>> * Packaging Perl applications using Docker
>>>> * Introducing Erlang (a new side project I'm working on to get
>>>> programmers who have some experience up and running with Erlang
>>>> and a non-trivial application under an hour.)
>>>> 
>>>> Do any of those sound interesting?
>>> 
>>> Are these full presentations, or lightning talks? (Some look big and
>>> others could be quicker.)
>>> 
>>> G. Wade
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Mark
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:49 AM, G. Wade Johnson
>>>> <gwadej at anomaly.org> wrote: 
>>>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:14:24 -0500
>>>> Todd Rinaldo <todd at rinaldo.us> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> All,
>>>>> 
>>>>> My original offer was to do a 5 minute lightning talk on
>>>>> Mail::SpamAssassin. I do not actually have content for a full
>>>>> meeting.
>>>> 
>>>> Actually, so far I have 3 lightning talks (including yours) lined
>>>> up.
>>>> 
>>>> 1. Todd: Email SPAM
>>>> 2. Reini: Global Destruction
>>>> 3. Wade: Tweaking gcode files
>>>> 
>>>> Come on people, we can get a few more talks lined up. It's only 5
>>>> minutes.
>>>> 
>>>> Last time we did the lightning talks, we had requests from the
>>>> audience to fill out some of the time. But a starting list of talks
>>>> would definitely make things easier.
>>>> 
>>>>> It sounds like we have no talk on Thursday. I propose a social
>>>>> meeting. Who's up for it. I got sick so couldn't attend when we
>>>>> tried Empire Cafe last time. How did that venue work out?
>>>> 
>>>> As I recall, spacing was kind of tight at Empire Cafe (and the
>> construction on Westheimer made getting there loads of fun).
>>>> 
>>>> G. Wade
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
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>>> but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.     -- Bjarne
>>> Stroustrup
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> Todd Rinaldo
>> toddr at cpanel.net
> 
> 
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