[kw-pm] [Fwd: [tpm] Damian Conway in Toronto the first week of August, presenting free public talks evenings of Aug 2 and Aug 4]

Wed Jun 29 15:33:38 PDT 2011

This didn't seem to get re-posted here yet...

-------- Original Message --------
From: 	Richard Dice <rdice at pobox.com>
Subject: 	[tpm] Damian Conway in Toronto the first week of August, 
presenting free public talks evenings of Aug 2 and Aug 4
Date: 	Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:32:55 -0400
To: 	Toronto Perl Mongers <tpm at to.pm.org>, tlug at ss.org, 
torcamp at googlegroups.com

Good news, everyone!

Our favourite Mad Scientist of Perl, Dr. Damian Conway, will once again 
come to Toronto to provide free public talks both educational and 
entertaining!

*Tuesday Aug 2 @ 7pm
University of Toronto, St. George Campus (downtown), Sanford Flemming 
Building Room # 1105 ("The Blue Room")
"The Twilight Perl" -- http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/Twilight.html*

/ï¿½You unlock this door with the key of a hash. Beyond it is another 
dimensionï¿½a dimension of strange constructs, a dimension of improbable 
behaviour. You're moving into a land of both weird syntax and unlikely 
semantics, of unintended features and unexpected beauty. You've just 
crossed over into...The Twilight Perl.ï¿½/

Join Damian for a head-trip through a dozen or so arcane and sinister 
ï¿½featuresï¿½ of Perl. Much of what you thought was required...isnï¿½t; some 
of what you thought was impossible...is easy. Cast off your strictures 
and warnings and set your programs free. Embrace the Dark Side of the 
Code. You have nothing to loseï¿½except your sanity!

(Ed.: This is going to be the more outlandish of his two talks this year.)

*Thursday Aug 4 @ 7pm
University of Toronto, St. George Campus (downtown), Sanford Flemming 
Building Room # 1105 ("The Blue Room")
"(Re)Developing in Perl 6" -- 
http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/ReDeveloping..html 
<http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/ReDeveloping.html>*

Now that Perl 6 is available in a usable form <http://www.rakudo.org/>, 
over the past twelve months Damian has revisited some of his most 
popular Perl 5 modules and reimplemented them in "native" Perl 6.

In this talk he will walk through the changes needed to port several of 
those modules, a journey that gives a surprisingly thorough overview of 
how the two languages differ, as well as insights into the relative 
strengths of each.

Info on the location of Sanford Flemming within St. George Campus, TTC 
info, parking info can be found at: 
http://osm.utoronto.ca/map/f?p=110:1:2092650610450120

The talks will start promptly at 7pm.  We have the room booked earlier 
than that, so give yourself time to come in and take a seat.  People who 
arrive at 6:59pm will NOT get good seats.  If you are driving, please 
allow yourself LOTS of extra time for (a) traffic and (b) getting from 
whereever you parked your car to Sanford Flemming.  U of T campus is 
pretty big.

*About Damian
-------------------*
For those of you who don't already know...

   * http://damian.conway.org/About_us/Bio_formal.html
   * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway
   * http://fyi.oreilly.com/2008/08/the-mind-of-damian-conway-scie.html

   * What the Internet thinks of him! -- 
http://www.googlism.com/who_is/d/damian_conway/

Damian has given talks in Toronto most years since 2001 and they are 
widely enjoyed, even by IT people who don't normally "do the Perl 
thing."  Think of it as the Toronto IT community's annual party.

*I can has donation plz?
-------------------------------
*Damian's trip to Toronto is un-funded... that is, as of right now it's 
coming out of his own pocketbook.  However, as I have done for the past 
10 years I am organizing a community pass-'round-the-hat donation to 
help cover the expenses (i.e. a plane ticket from the west coast, 
roughly a week of hotel rooms, and meals and other incidentals while he 
is here).  If you would like to help out with these expenses, please get 
in touch with me off-list.  Donations from companies are gladly 
welcomed, too!  Any funds raised in excess of what is needed to cover 
his expenses will be given to him as an honorarium for his visit.

Damian is also available for corporate training during that week.  (His 
offerings: http://damian.conway.org/Courses/)  Please get in touch with 
me if you know any one / any company that might be interested.

Please circulate this email / annoucement!  Forward to any one / any 
company you think might be interested.  We always have a great crowd 
come out for Damian's events and getting the word out widely is a big 
part of that.

Did I omit any important information?  Please ask me, and when I send 
out reminder emails I will include that info in them.

Looking forward to seeing you soon...

Cheers,
  - Richard

P.S. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D1cap6yETA

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