[tpm] January meeting, February plans

Thu Feb 6 19:05:07 PST 2020

Hi Adam,

I've been invited onto the Slack channel where the TPF organizers hang out,
so I'll find out more about the whole process. It does sound like the
organization provides more support to the local groups, which is a great
way to do things.

Alex

On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 1:38 AM Adam Prime <adam.prime at utoronto.ca> wrote:

> 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
> >
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> >
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