[tpm] Damian Conway talks Tuesday 6 August and Thursday 8 August 2013 -- a reminder

[J Z Tam]

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 From: J. Bobby Lopez <jbl at jbldata.com>
To: toronto-pm at pm.org 
Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 11:12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [tpm] Damian Conway talks Tuesday 6 August and Thursday 8 August 2013 -- a reminder
 


Loved the talk! Had several mind=blown moments, and learned a little Latin in the process :) Thanks Damian for your passion and energy! Big thanks to Mozilla for hosting, and many thanks to Richard and the TPM gang for pulling it all together!


On 13-08-01 11:56 AM, Richard Dice wrote:

(This is a reminder email, same content as before.  Please note that Thu 8 Aug with be a double-feature; 2 talks for the price (a.k.a. free) of one!)
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>Good news, everyone!
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>Dr. Damian Conway will be coming to visit the computer tech community of Toronto during the first week of August 2013.  Damian is a Master Hacker and fantastic, entertaining presenter.  The Perl community has known and loved him for decades but he has something to offer anyone who is interested in programming and computer science regardless of your language of choice.  His talks are both educational and entertaining!  And, they're free.  (But we are taking donations.  See details below.)
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>Tuesday Aug 6 @ 7pm (please enter the room approx. 6:45pm)
>Mozilla Offices, Suite 500, 366 Adelaide Street West (just east of Spadina)
>"Fun With Dead Languages" -- http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/DeadLanguages.html
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>Watch in mesmerized terror as Damian hacks code in several unrelated programming languages (none of them Perl). Along the way, you'll also discover what's wrong with modern CS education, why programmers shouldn't frequent casinos, the power of Thor's Law, the language of moisture vaporators, C++ mysticism, how to use the three shells, state machines on steroids, programming without variables or subroutines, a cheap and eco-friendly alternative for distributed persistent computation, what the Romans used instead of braces, the ancient probabilistic wisdom of bodkins, and the price of fish.
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>(Ed.: This is going to be the more outlandish of his talks this year.  It is a new-and-improved version of a talk Damian last gave in Toronto seven years ago where he demonstrates his virtuosity -- and insanity -- in many programming languages and paradigms.  Computer geeks from all language backgrounds should enjoy this thoroughly.)
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>Thursday Aug 8 @ 7pm (please enter the room approx. 6:45pm)
>University of Toronto, St. George Campus (downtown), Bahen Centre for IT (40 St. George Street, just north of College St.), Room # BA-1160
>Talk # 1 - "A Few Of My Favorite Things"-- http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/FavoriteThings.html
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>(Go to the URL, read the description.  It will be Perl 5 Madness, Damian style.)
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>Talk #2 - "Sex and Violence: Social and Technical Lessons from the Perl 6 Project" -- http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/SexViolence.html
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>In June 2000, Larry Wall announced a new four-month Open Source development effort: the reinvention of Perl. In this keynote, Damian Conway will unfold the twisting and sordid tale of what happened over the next ten years of the project, highlighting the sexy new language that has been created, the extreme violence that was sometimes necessary to make it happen, and the dozen or so harsh-but-invaluable lessons that the development team learned along the way.
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>About Damian
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>For those of you who don't already know...
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>  * http://damian.conway.org/About_us/Bio_formal.html
>  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway
>  * http://fyi.oreilly.com/2008/08/the-mind-of-damian-conway-scie.html
>  * What the Internet thinks of him! -- http://www.googlism.com/who_is/d/damian_conway/
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>Damian has given talks in Toronto most years since 2001 and they are widely enjoyed, even by IT people who don't normally "do the Perl thing."  Think of it as the Toronto IT community's annual party.
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>I can has donation plz?
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>Damian's trip to Toronto is un-funded... that is, as of right now it's coming out of his own pocketbook.  However, as I have done for the past 13 years I am organizing a community pass-'round-the-hat donation to help cover the expenses (i.e. a plane ticket, roughly a week of hotel rooms, and meals and other incidentals while he is here).  If you would like to help out with these expenses, please get in touch with me off-list.  Donations from companies are gladly welcomed, too!  Any funds raised in excess of what is needed to cover his expenses will be given to him as an honorarium for his visit.
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>Please circulate this email announcement!  Forward to any one / any company you think might be interested.  We always have a great crowd come out for Damian's events and getting the word out widely is a big part of that.  
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>Did I omit any important information?  Please ask me, and when I send out reminder emails I will include that info in them.
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>Looking forward to seeing you soon...
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>Cheers,
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>P.S. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D1cap6yETA
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