[tpm] January meeting, February plans

[Sergio Sousa]

Hi All,

Please allow me to clarify and give proper credit here, re YAPC:EU 2009:
Jose Castro (cog) was the main organizer and ideator, who lead putting the
(huge) team together and secured the platinum sponsor as well as other
sponsors; the bid and organization was done by a committee that got
together for that specific project. I did participate, as did other members
of my team at the time (I was Head of Engineering for Log, another major
sponsor, with many perl developers on payroll). I am very enthusiastic by
nature and I indeed feel that said 2009 conference also belongs to me but I
can't say I "ran" it. ;)

Anyway, in fact I have that experience and insight, and I can gather a lot
of documentation and information from that process. And, I am positive we
can make it here in Toronto, again. I am really confident we can go ahead
and create a team for this purpose and that we can win the bid for 2022. It
will be a lot of work, though.

Cheers!

=Sergio de Sousa
sergio at serso.com


On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 12:04 PM Alex Beamish <talexb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We had a late cancellation for January's meeting, so instead, Sergio,
> Dave, Rajah, Sachin and I talked about Perl-related topics, with Fulko
> listening in remotely. Thanks again to Sachin and Flightnetwork for hosting
> the meeting and providing pizza and beverages.
>
> We came up with a couple of ideas for talks in February:
> - I'm curious to get an update on what the status is about the TPM
> website; I know there were some folks working on that during our November
> hackathon.
> - Dave S talked about using audio for data transmission, so has said he'll
> do a talk about that.
> - New member Sergio S talked about the demand for Perl in Toronto, which
> ended up being a discussion about the migration of Perl to Modern Perl and
> to other languages (e.g., .Net), so he's said he'll do a talk as well.
> This meeting will take place Thursday, February 27.
>
> At the pub, Dave, Sergio and I talked about making a proposal to have
> YAPC::NA (aka The Perl and Raku Conference) in Toronto. While I think it's
> a terrific idea, I'm a little terrified at the prospect, because the
> challenge will be to build a team like Richard did for 2005. At this point,
> I'm aiming to create a proposal for 2022 .. proposals for 2021 will be due
> in a couple of months, and I don't want to race to get something ready in
> such a short time-frame. Sergio told me he ran YAPC::EU in 2009, so he has
> plenty of experience -- and he's persuasive!
>
> More updates later this month.
>
> Alex
>
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