[Phoenix-pm] Andy Lester to Phoenix for "Technical Debt" talk

Derek Cline derek at ninth.org
Mon Jul 3 10:14:07 PDT 2006


Just getting back to my mail after the weekend... me too. :)

-=Derek


On Jul 1, 2006, at 10:38 PM, Scott Walters wrote:

> Hi Perl Mongers,
>
> If we're willing to pay airfare, we can get well-known Perl  
> personalities as
> speakers.  In the past, we've had Randal Schwartz out of luck and  
> Dan Sugalski
> as part of the Perl 6 world tour, but if we get about 17 people to  
> pony up
> $20, we can do fun things like this a lot more often.  Andy Lester  
> has already
> offered to come out.  Andy Lester did a "Get out of Technical Debt"  
> talk at
> YAPC.  There's a description at
> http://www.yapcchicago.org/the-schedule/monday/m-abstracts#em1420 .
> That's the talk we'd probably get.
>
> Andy Lester wrote WWW::Mechanize and _Pro Perl Debugging_ for APress.
>
> Here's what I want:  Respond with a "me too" if you're willing to  
> commit a
> $20 to flying in a speaker and Brock and I (hi Brock) will handle  
> the rest.
> Consider asking your employer to sponser part of the cost, too --  
> especially
> if an employer is willing to pay for hotel, we'll have a much more  
> attractive
> proposition.
>
> -scott
>
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