[VPM] OSCON Perl tutorial

[Scott E. Campbell]

Conveniently, I work at UVic so can probably help out in regards to booking
a room.

Scott


On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Darren Duncan <darren at darrenduncan.net>wrote:

> On 2013.06.14 10:08 PM, Darren Duncan wrote:
>
>> On 2013.06.14 7:18 PM, Peter Scott wrote:
>>
>>> Just an FYI for anyone you know who is going to OSCON in five weeks and
>>> might
>>> want to jumpstart learning Perl: I will be giving an introduction to Perl
>>> tutorial, "Perl: The First Three Days" (in three hours).  See
>>> http://www.oscon.com/**oscon2013/public/schedule/**detail/28923<http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013/public/schedule/detail/28923>. Highly rated from
>>> last year.
>>>
>>
>> I can't go to OSCON, or any cons, this year.  I have about 50% confidence
>> in
>> going next year, depending partly on what other cons I might attend, and
>> partly
>> on whether I'd be prepared to give a proper Muldis D talk. -- Darren
>> Duncan
>>
>
> Further to this, I don't know if I told you, but I went to my first YAPC
> in 2012, and I liked it.  Had previously been to OSCON 2005,6,8; strangely
> enough Peter, it seems like I talked with you more there than here during
> those years.  I'm interested in both conferences again, as well as maybe
> trying for my first PgCon next year (in Ottawa), if I'm ready.
>
> Meanwhile, my strongest interest in the short term / in 2013 is if we have
> any Victoria.pm gatherings, as that's local and I don't have to do any
> major calendar or job arrangings around it.
>
> Barring another idea, I suggest perhaps a topic for a pre-OSCON VPM
> meeting is you could practice giving your tutorial, or any other talk,
> especially if it changed from last year.  That works best for normal talks;
> for the tutorial I suppose you could pick out individual portions you might
> want the most feedback about.
>
> If we decide to meet, we'll have to decide when works for people.  June 27
> thru July 3 is the worst for me in the short term; other days/times may
> potentially work.
>
> Also a question is where.  Does some room at UVic work?  Or some office in
> downtown Victoria?  Etc.  To use UVic we'd need a UVic student involved,
> for room booking; on the other hand UVic wants people to pay to use
> projectors. Unless one of us has our own portable one we can bring.
>
>
> -- Darren Duncan
>
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