SPUG: Jan & Feb Meeting Topics; Damian Seminars

[Tim Maher/CONSULTIX]

INCLUDED ITEMS:
      Jan. Meeting: Intro. to Perl		(Tim Maher)
      Feb. Meeting: Whither Perl 6.0?		(Damian Conway)
Feb. Perl Seminars: Data Munging and Adv. OOP	(Damian Conway)

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    Speaker:	Tim Maher, CONSULTIX
      Title:	Introduction to Perl
       Time:	January 16th, 2001 (Third Tuesday), 7:30pm-9pm**
   Location:	Union Bank of California Bldg, 5th Floor Mtg Room
       Cost:	Free!
		** NOTE: Meeting will start 30 minutes later than usual!

One of SPUG's New Year's Resolutions is to bring Perl newbies back into
the fold.  In the early days of SPUGgery, we had lots of them, but
as our members evolved and the topics became more advanced, abstract,
and downright bizarre (thanks Damian! 8-}), newbies began to disappear,
and are currently nowhere in evidence.

So the plan is that every 3rd meeting will be allocated to beginner's
topics, starting with this month's meeting.  The (3rd Tuesday) Newbie
Meetings are therefore expected to be 1/16, 4/17, 7/17, and 10/17, but
these dates might change as the year progresses.  Beginner-level topics
might be presented at other times too, of course.  The point is that
we want to ensure that we cater to newbies on a regular basis, to keep
them involved.

To kick off our renewed dedication to Perl Newbies, I'll be giving an
"Introduction to Perl" talk for our January meeting , in which I'll:

 * review the heritage, history, and people of Perl,
 * describe the current uses of the language,
 * give an introduction to Perl syntax and features, and
 # show some elementary Perl code.

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Special February Meeting:
    Title:	Whither Perl 6.0? 
    Speaker:	Dr. Damian Conway
		Indentured Servant #1 to Perl Community,
		via Perl Development Grant from "Yet Another Society"
       Time:	February 19th, 2001 (Third MONDAY), 7:00pm-9pm**
   Location:	Union Bank of California Bldg, 5th Floor Mtg Room

NOTE: Usual location and time, but Monday, rather than Tuesday!

Larry Wall announced at The Perl Conference in July, 2000 that the next
version of Perl (6.0) would be a community effort. The result was a
deluge of 361 submissions on proposed changes, ranging from from the
insanely clever to the merely insane.

Damian will bring us up to date on the latest developments in the Perl 6
design process and speculate on which of those changes we're most likely
to see when Perl 6.0 comes out later this year.

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Damian Conway Seminars (2/20-21, 2/22-23 2001):

It would be a shame to have Damian Conway in town and not pump him for as
much Perl knowledge as possible, so through an arrangement with Consultix
he'll be presenting two seminars from February 20-23 in the Seattle area
on the topics of "Data Munging" and "Advanced Object Oriented Perl".

Unlike Dr. Conway's SPUG addresses, which are intended to entertain
while showing interesting uses of Perl, these seminars are designed to
show programming professionals how to accomplish important tasks.

The Consultix web-site provides further details.

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| Dr. Tim Maher, CEO, Consultix       (206) 781-UNIX/8649;  ask for FAX# | 
| Email: tim at consultix-inc.com        Web: http://www.consultix-inc.com  |
| TIM MAHER: Unix/Perl  DAMIAN CONWAY: Adv. Perl   COLIN MEYER: Perl/DBI |
|Feb 7 Perl/DBI; 12 Int Perl; 15 OO-Perl; 20 Data Munging; 22 Adv OO-Perl|
*========================================================================*

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