From fozzmoo at gmail.com  Wed Dec 10 10:26:34 2014
From: fozzmoo at gmail.com (Doran Barton)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:26:34 -0700
Subject: [Saltlake-pm] Openwest 2015 call for papers!
Message-ID: <20141210112634.4b727368@doranBarton-wkrst>

Hey all you zany Perlers! 

Openwest 2015 will be held May 6-9 at Utah Valley University and will be
bigger than ever before.  We've made a big deal about YAPC::NA coming to
Salt Lake in June, but Openwest is a big deal also, both for open source in
general as well as Perl. 

If you have a topic you'd like to present at YAPC::NA, consider submitting
your presentation to Openwest as well. If nothing else, you can use
Openwest as a trial run before YAPC::NA.

Following is the official Openwest Call For Papers announcement:


The Call for Papers is open for the OpenWest 2015 conference! The CFP will
run from Dec 1, 2014 - Jan 31, 2015. You can submit your papers at:

http://cfp.openwest.org

The OpenWest conference is a community driven conference that focuses on
all things Open Source, Open Hardware and Open Standards.  The community
feel of the conference comes in a few ways:

1. Most of the presentations are from members of the local tech community.
While we do fly in national level speakers, the focus is on local community
members working with awesome tech.
2. Many of the local User Group Leaders are or have been a member of the
organizing group - Core Team.  This keeps the conference relative to the
communities we represent.
3. Presentations are selected by the community.  Using only the
Presentation Title and Description, attendees are able to vote on
presentations they?d like to see.

To further enhance the community feel of the conference we're so happy to
announce a few new initiatives:

* Speaker Mentoring - on request, we?ll pair you with somebody who can
coach you to new levels of awesomeness! Your presentation will be a homerun!
* Focus Groups - a new type of presentation that is a break from the v.
large presentations of 80+ people, a focus group is a CAPPED attendance
presentation with a max of 25 attendees.  This type of presentation is for
those who learn better working interactively with the presenter.  The room
is configured in a circle for everybody to talk.
* OpenWest Unconference - sharing the spotlight with the normally scheduled
conference we are dedicating space for spontaneous conference presentations
by members of the community.

Lastly, as a community event, we feel strongly about our Code of Conduct (
http://www.openwest.org/code-of-conduct/ ) and our commitment to Diversity
( http://www.openwest.org/diversity/ ).

Thanks to the community for helping us put this on!

-- 
Doran L. Barton <fozzmoo at gmail.com> - Linux, Perl, Web, good fun, and more!
 "When meeting an advancing person tootle your horn vigorously and he will
  disappear."
    -- Seen in a Tokyo traffic handbook

From david at scholes.us  Thu Dec 11 17:21:57 2014
From: david at scholes.us (David Scholes)
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:21:57 -0700
Subject: [Saltlake-pm] Topics for PerlMongers, OpenWest and/or YAPC
Message-ID: <CAJ+oy8w6Ajj8XCyfphq0wFcmFCaZVATGGbTpD_vR6v-W8ATaPA@mail.gmail.com>

I saw Doran's and Dave's resent requests for presentations. I'm really not
sure what would draw the best crowd but thought I'd throw out a few rough
ideas and see what you all think. Nothing really new or exciting here but
if there is any interest, I'm willing to put something together on one or
two of them. I'd probably want to do them first in a PerlMongers and get
feedback and ideas from everyone else. If anyone wants to do any of these
yourself, please do. Just throwing ideas out there.

1) Perl Debugger and debugging complex, convoluted or unfamiliar code

2) End User Reporting ? Spreadsheets, CSV, PDF, Templates, LaTeX, format
etc.

3) Teaching Perl to Kids before we all die off. I have foster kids to
experiment on. Might be good to have a few people work on this one.

4) Organizing Data ? building data structures to simplify your code

5) Regular Expressions ? Could be taught somewhat language agnostic or at
least point out some of the differences between languages.

Thanks,
David Scholes
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From jayce at lug-nut.com  Fri Dec 12 08:36:25 2014
From: jayce at lug-nut.com (Jason Hall)
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:36:25 -0700
Subject: [Saltlake-pm] Topics for PerlMongers, OpenWest and/or YAPC
In-Reply-To: <CAJ+oy8w6Ajj8XCyfphq0wFcmFCaZVATGGbTpD_vR6v-W8ATaPA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAJ+oy8w6Ajj8XCyfphq0wFcmFCaZVATGGbTpD_vR6v-W8ATaPA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CA+ejggAUm9vo0PTtJJ4nes8AMfoRp7bRKNrcHUO5XGzqj316PQ@mail.gmail.com>

Being one of those people that loves to abuse the Perl Debugger for awesome
means, I often lament how few people know how/when to use it. So I'd love
to see some education on that :)

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 6:21 PM, David Scholes <david at scholes.us> wrote:

> I saw Doran's and Dave's resent requests for presentations. I'm really not
> sure what would draw the best crowd but thought I'd throw out a few rough
> ideas and see what you all think. Nothing really new or exciting here but
> if there is any interest, I'm willing to put something together on one or
> two of them. I'd probably want to do them first in a PerlMongers and get
> feedback and ideas from everyone else. If anyone wants to do any of these
> yourself, please do. Just throwing ideas out there.
>
> 1) Perl Debugger and debugging complex, convoluted or unfamiliar code
>
> 2) End User Reporting ? Spreadsheets, CSV, PDF, Templates, LaTeX, format
> etc.
>
> 3) Teaching Perl to Kids before we all die off. I have foster kids to
> experiment on. Might be good to have a few people work on this one.
>
> 4) Organizing Data ? building data structures to simplify your code
>
> 5) Regular Expressions ? Could be taught somewhat language agnostic or at
> least point out some of the differences between languages.
>
> Thanks,
> David Scholes
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Saltlake-pm mailing list
> Saltlake-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/saltlake-pm
> http://saltlake.pm.org
>



-- 
Jayce^

Preparing Deseret - UtahPreppers
????? ????
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From david at scholes.us  Tue Dec 16 05:52:54 2014
From: david at scholes.us (David Scholes)
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 06:52:54 -0700
Subject: [Saltlake-pm] Topics for PerlMongers, OpenWest and/or YAPC
In-Reply-To: <CA+ejggAUm9vo0PTtJJ4nes8AMfoRp7bRKNrcHUO5XGzqj316PQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAJ+oy8w6Ajj8XCyfphq0wFcmFCaZVATGGbTpD_vR6v-W8ATaPA@mail.gmail.com>
	<CA+ejggAUm9vo0PTtJJ4nes8AMfoRp7bRKNrcHUO5XGzqj316PQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAJ+oy8w9H+3uJ5FAKF7EhyJZaQyNSDP1TF0saoq4c9vmKXOVRA@mail.gmail.com>

Jason, I've also noticed very few people I have worked with use the
debugger.  I've found a few tricks but I'd be interested in knowing how you
"abuse" the debugger. I'll submit this as a topic and see what happens.
I've taught this before as a lunch and learn so shouldn't be too hard to
put something together.

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Jason Hall <jayce at lug-nut.com> wrote:

> Being one of those people that loves to abuse the Perl Debugger for
> awesome means, I often lament how few people know how/when to use it. So
> I'd love to see some education on that :)
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 6:21 PM, David Scholes <david at scholes.us> wrote:
>
>> I saw Doran's and Dave's resent requests for presentations. I'm really
>> not sure what would draw the best crowd but thought I'd throw out a few
>> rough ideas and see what you all think. Nothing really new or exciting here
>> but if there is any interest, I'm willing to put something together on one
>> or two of them. I'd probably want to do them first in a PerlMongers and get
>> feedback and ideas from everyone else. If anyone wants to do any of these
>> yourself, please do. Just throwing ideas out there.
>>
>> 1) Perl Debugger and debugging complex, convoluted or unfamiliar code
>>
>> 2) End User Reporting ? Spreadsheets, CSV, PDF, Templates, LaTeX, format
>> etc.
>>
>> 3) Teaching Perl to Kids before we all die off. I have foster kids to
>> experiment on. Might be good to have a few people work on this one.
>>
>> 4) Organizing Data ? building data structures to simplify your code
>>
>> 5) Regular Expressions ? Could be taught somewhat language agnostic or at
>> least point out some of the differences between languages.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David Scholes
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Saltlake-pm mailing list
>> Saltlake-pm at pm.org
>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/saltlake-pm
>> http://saltlake.pm.org
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Jayce^
>
> Preparing Deseret - UtahPreppers
> ????? ????
>
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From daoswald at gmail.com  Wed Dec 17 09:20:16 2014
From: daoswald at gmail.com (David Oswald)
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:20:16 -0700
Subject: [Saltlake-pm] Topics for PerlMongers, OpenWest and/or YAPC
In-Reply-To: <CAJ+oy8w9H+3uJ5FAKF7EhyJZaQyNSDP1TF0saoq4c9vmKXOVRA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAJ+oy8w6Ajj8XCyfphq0wFcmFCaZVATGGbTpD_vR6v-W8ATaPA@mail.gmail.com>
	<CA+ejggAUm9vo0PTtJJ4nes8AMfoRp7bRKNrcHUO5XGzqj316PQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAJ+oy8w9H+3uJ5FAKF7EhyJZaQyNSDP1TF0saoq4c9vmKXOVRA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAKTcQ97npfR1mwq+V73Ys3KOb-4cA6Dacp1R9F28-1fsJheVWg@mail.gmail.com>

I think we have a January presenter, but your topic sounds great for feb.
On Dec 16, 2014 6:53 AM, "David Scholes" <david at scholes.us> wrote:

> Jason, I've also noticed very few people I have worked with use the
> debugger.  I've found a few tricks but I'd be interested in knowing how you
> "abuse" the debugger. I'll submit this as a topic and see what happens.
> I've taught this before as a lunch and learn so shouldn't be too hard to
> put something together.
>
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Jason Hall <jayce at lug-nut.com> wrote:
>
>> Being one of those people that loves to abuse the Perl Debugger for
>> awesome means, I often lament how few people know how/when to use it. So
>> I'd love to see some education on that :)
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 6:21 PM, David Scholes <david at scholes.us> wrote:
>>
>>> I saw Doran's and Dave's resent requests for presentations. I'm really
>>> not sure what would draw the best crowd but thought I'd throw out a few
>>> rough ideas and see what you all think. Nothing really new or exciting here
>>> but if there is any interest, I'm willing to put something together on one
>>> or two of them. I'd probably want to do them first in a PerlMongers and get
>>> feedback and ideas from everyone else. If anyone wants to do any of these
>>> yourself, please do. Just throwing ideas out there.
>>>
>>> 1) Perl Debugger and debugging complex, convoluted or unfamiliar code
>>>
>>> 2) End User Reporting ? Spreadsheets, CSV, PDF, Templates, LaTeX, format
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> 3) Teaching Perl to Kids before we all die off. I have foster kids to
>>> experiment on. Might be good to have a few people work on this one.
>>>
>>> 4) Organizing Data ? building data structures to simplify your code
>>>
>>> 5) Regular Expressions ? Could be taught somewhat language agnostic or
>>> at least point out some of the differences between languages.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David Scholes
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Saltlake-pm mailing list
>>> Saltlake-pm at pm.org
>>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/saltlake-pm
>>> http://saltlake.pm.org
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jayce^
>>
>> Preparing Deseret - UtahPreppers
>> ????? ????
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Saltlake-pm mailing list
> Saltlake-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/saltlake-pm
> http://saltlake.pm.org
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From daoswald at gmail.com  Thu Dec 18 12:59:09 2014
From: daoswald at gmail.com (David Oswald)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 13:59:09 -0700
Subject: [Saltlake-pm] OpenWest Call For Papers is open
Message-ID: <CAKTcQ96ETGAJepF4s4HuR1yDxOZNVzYR8diMX+BgPdk8A_kFPg@mail.gmail.com>

The 2015 OpenWest call for papers is open.  The deadline is January 31st,
so we have just over a month to fill out the Perl track.

Last year we managed a 3-day Perl track.

The CFP form is available at http://cfp.openwest.org/

We're happy to let people practice their talks at Salt Lake Perl Mongers
meetings.  Also keep in mind that you might want to submit your talk idea
to YAPC as well.  The YAPC CFP link is http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/newtalk

Also, several SLPM members have expressed willingness to help mentor
speakers who might be looking at giving their first OpenWest or YAPC talk.
If there is anyone who needs some assistance with getting a talk ready, let
me know and we'll get you paired up with an experienced speaker.

Dave

-- 

David Oswald
daoswald at gmail.com
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