[Thamesvalley-pm] tech talks in February

[Gareth France]

I could 'in theory' do a talk about the difficulty breaking into a new 
language / toolkit / skill. As an out of date programmer I find myself 
often frustrated at how everyone but me has the answer I need but nobody 
is willing to share. This is off the cuff though so I haven't got 
anything thought through.


On 17/01/17 17:44, Andrew wrote:
> I'm just confused.
> Are you saying the TVPM Tech meet is cancelled, if we decide to go to 
> the Maidenhead event? =P.
> I'm down for anything Reading and Oxford. Unsure about Maidenhead. 
> Would have to look into it and then decide.
> I also did a Youtube video on something I coded in Perl back in August:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFrpfAUMXyg (see the "MIME:Parser" 
> (sic) thread on this group)
> I could possibly adapt it to a talk.
> Why don't you lot do the Maidenhead event in Feb, and then we'll have 
> our own Technical-meets-social meetup in March?
> Yours,
> Andrew
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Neil Bowers <mailto:neil.bowers at cogendo.com>
>     *To:* ThamesValley Perl Mongers <mailto:thamesvalley-pm at pm.org>
>     *Sent:* Monday, January 16, 2017 11:49 PM
>     *Subject:* [Thamesvalley-pm] tech talks in February
>
>     We’ve got at least two options for tech talks in February:
>
>     Will Hawes has invited us to go along to the tech[maidenhead]
>     meetup on February 7th:
>
>         https://www.meetup.com/techmaidenhead/events/236353853/
>
>
>     This is a general tech meetup, and they already have some talks
>     scheduled. Will reckons we could fit in 3 Perl talks. Given the
>     meetup, they would need to aim to be of general interest, rather
>     than hardcore Perl :-)
>
>     The second option would be to have a Perl/TVPM only gathering for
>     lightning talks, followed by a beer or two in a local hostelry.
>     This would mean we could have more than 3 talks, and they could be
>     on anything related to Perl (or not!). But if only 3 people can be
>     strong-armed into talking, then we might as well join in with the
>     Maidenhead meet-up.
>
>     So far we have 3 potential speakers:
>
>         Oliver
>         Roger
>         Me
>
>
>     If one more person wants to talk, but people would still like to
>     go along to the Maidenhead meetup, I’m happy to not talk.
>
>     What’s everyone’s preference?
>
>     Neil
>
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