[Purdue-pm] So, That Was A Meeting. What Now?

Dave Jacoby jacoby.david at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 07:08:53 PST 2015


Good to know, good to hear.

I thought I had most of this stuff in Github anyway, but turns out no, so
I'll get something up and build a talk around it.


On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Ken Schweickert <kenschweickert at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm not convinced describing something in code is such a bad thing,
> particularly in concise chunks. I used Perl pretty extensively with Twitter
> and Gnip APIs. So I wouldn't object to such a talk on grounds of code use
> nor subject matter. If I'm not the only one who isn't offended by your
> notion ;P I could probably find something interesting to contribute along
> side if there's time.
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Dave Jacoby <jacoby.david at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Because Supercomputing 15 was this week, most people I would have
>> expected to show up at the various tech events this week were in Austin,
>> and many were doing other things. Which is okay. There was good discussion
>> around my talk, "HTML Mail...".
>>
>> Next meeting is either Noon Tue Dec 15 in WSLR or 6pm Wed Dec 16 in
>> MatchBox. I like the Mongers -> Chat setup (when people bother to show) so
>> I think I'll go with that, unless we get substantial objection.
>>
>> (Note to self: Ask Wally or Broc to reserve a room for us.)
>>
>> (Note to self: Un-reserve WSLR 116 for December.)
>>
>> (Note to self: Send notice to Purdue Today.)
>>
>> I've been considering a talk/blogpost/tweet about using Perl to
>> interesting things with Twitter info, but I'm not sure. Nobody in
>> Purdue.pm, perhaps nobody in Greater Lafayette, munges Twitter as much as I
>> do, so I suspect I'd just bore people to tears, and unlike HTML Mail, I'm
>> not sure I could do it without showing code, which I'd love but would bore
>> others to tears. So, I'm open for ideas on the topic.
>>
>> The release of Perl 6 is announced for before Christmas 2015, so on
>> January 19, we'll be having our Perl 6 release celebration meeting at
>> MatchBox. Mark will talk a little about Perl 6 but wants other presenters.
>>
>> (Note to self: Ask Wally or Broc to reserve a room for us.)
>>
>> (Note to self: Un-reserve WSLR 116 for January.)
>>
>> So, if you have great ideas for a talk, please speak up. You don't even
>> have to be the person who presents it.
>>
>> --
>> David Jacoby     jacoby.david at gmail.com
>>
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