[kw-pm] Thank you for the MJD event!

Richard Dice rdice at pobox.com
Sun May 14 02:28:31 PDT 2006


Hi everyone,

I just wanted to say thank to everyone for the support we received for
the MJD talks yesterday.  We covered all our costs (about $780) and
raised an additional $285 beyond that, both from donations and proceeds
from the book auction.  I made the US$260 donation via credit card to
The Perl Foundation last night in the name of "Toronto Perl Mongers"
(though it could take a few days before the guy on the back-end to write
in that name in place of mine on the web site... he can be slow
responding to emails).

MJD had a really good time here, as did his wife and daughter as they
touristed around downtown.  As he mentioned in his talk yesterday we
were a bumper crop group in terms of providing him with code examples
for his "Perl Program Repair Shop and Red Flags" book, and he
appreciated how engaged the audience was during the talk.  He was
impressed and surprised at how well his "Perl contains the Lambda
Calculus" talk was received, as he considers it to be one of his more
esoteric, less practical and more high-end talks.  Most groups don't
want to venture that far into the realm of compsci strangeness.  As I
warned him beforehand though, we're not most groups. :-)

Thanks again, and looking forward to seeing many of you out at YAPC::NA
in Chicago in about 6 weeks.

Cheers,
Richard



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