[tpm] January meeting, February plans

[Adam Prime]

I don't think that YAPC, or TPC as it is once again known, is run 
anywhere near like is was the last time it was in toronto.  I don't 
think you need to put together nearly as much manpower as Richard did 
back in 05. I haven't been in years, but my understanding was, last time 
that I was there, that TPF was doing a lot more to run the events then 
they used to. Whether that remains the case though, i really don't know.

I just spend 20 minutes trying to find information on how they choose 
where to host it from year to year, and failing.  I found things that 
are clearly out dated, with expired SSL certs, but nothing obviously 
current.

Adam


On 2/1/20 3:53 PM, Sergio Sousa wrote:
> 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 <mailto:sergio at serso.com>
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 12:04 PM Alex Beamish <talexb at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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
> 
>     -- 
>     Alex Beamish
> 
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