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Re: I have always relied on the generosity of Perlers

Barbie — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 05:34:42 -0000

What a brilliant idea. And a huge thank you to everyone who has donated too :)

Re: I have always relied on the generosity of Perlers

David Precious — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:55:21 -0000

Please do it again next time - I'll make sure I have some more cash in my wallet then :)

Re: I have always relied on the generosity of Perlers

schiffbruechige — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:38:01 -0000

Impressive!

Re: Perl 25

mdk — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:19:34 -0000

Cake is, I think, an absolute must for this occassion, but how do we deliver it and how many cakes is the question. Maybe we should insist there are lots of 25th year of Perl cakes floating around ;)

Re: Perl 25

mdk — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:54:51 -0000

Good idea. Though it would be best to give it out at next year's YAPCs/Events as that will be easier to organise methinks. Maybe get a series of designs to print locally by people/companies?

Re: Perl 25

Jess — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:08:57 -0000

First thought, a t-shirt with 25 years on the front and some perl logos, and on the back a grid of logos/banners for companies that use/endorse perl in someway..

Hopefully sponsored by said companies and given out at this years YAPCs ?

Re: Perl 25

garu — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:34:26 -0000

Don't know about the other ideas, but there should definitely be cake involved at some point :-)

Re: Video killed the presenting star…

mdk — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:27:16 -0000

Yeah, we had an attack several times over the last couple of months, seems to be at the shared server as opposed to just our site and combined with an older security flaw, our minion-in-charge-of-killing-things reports that he thinks he has splatted them all.

Re: Video killed the presenting star…

mdk — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:26:09 -0000

The shared server we have the site hosted on had some issues recently, we 'think' we have nailed them all now and the happy little minions who know the secret magics of this will be monitoring it...

Re: Video killed the presenting star…

Alexander Hartmaier (abraxxa) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:04:44 -0000

Thanks for recording the videos for those of us who couldn't be there!
The only critic I have is about the sound quality because it's quite hard to understand the speakers.

Re: Video killed the presenting star…

Rocco — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:59:13 -0000

"What You Missed" is a lightning version of my main Perl Oasis talk. I wrote and rehearsed it during the lunch break just before my scheduled slot. I knew most people would be attending Stevan Little's talk instead of mine, and I wanted to regain some of that lost exposure.

Producing the Lightning version had a great winnowing effect on the longer version. I was able to present my full talk in 10-15 minutes less time than originally rehearsed. It went from running over to having just enough time for questions.

Re: Video killed the presenting star…

Bill Ruppert — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:03:49 -0000

Google Chrome is giving me a malware warning when I try to go to http://www.presentingperl.o...

Re: Video killed the presenting star…

deniszh — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:37:36 -0000

Hi Mark,
it's may be offtopic, but Presentingperl.org is in Google's Safebrowsing block now for some reason - http://safebrowsing.clients...

Re: London Perl Workshop: The Videos

Tom Legrady — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:28:43 -0000

Haven't had a chance to see the videos yet, work laptop doesn't support Flash.

I've been greatly disappointed with video recordings of Perl talks for several years. Last half-decent ones I remember seeing are YAPC Toronto, and that was a long time ago. They usually share a number of the following faults:

* no audio
* faint audio
* noisy audio
* audio overwhelmed by sound of audience or neighbouring room
* speaker is a small blob in corner of image
* slides are not shown
* slides are shown but not legible

The recent Stanford DB and AI courses ( I didn't check out machine Learning ) should video done well:

* image of speaker in a corner of the screen
* majority of screen devoted to the slide

I envision a system where a webcam mounted on the podium captures the speaker, optionally panned and tilted by an operator controlling a joystick, while a hardware component connected to the video-out, digitizes the video.

The only gap is if the speaker uses a laser pointer rather than mousing the cursor.

Oh, and the digitizer should use a Raspberry Pi for a total budget of $50.

Tom ... in the clouds

Re: NWE.PM: The Shape of 2012

Jess Robinson — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:30:44 -0000

Woohoo a plan! Hmm, one of those virtuals is practically on my birthday...

Interesting idea to have less technical meetings, why was that?

Re: EPO Site Redesign

Dave Rolsky — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:58:43 -0000

Overall, this is a big improvement. The one thing that bugs me is the orange links on a light background. They're basically unreadable. Also, links should always be some shade of blue (blue, not purple, not aqua, blue), with a fallback to an inverse color on a dark background (white, very light blue, etc).

Re: Google Code-in – Fit the Third

Chankey Pathak — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:45:30 -0000

Good post! Spreading it :)

Re: Perl Rocks Latin America

Chankey Pathak — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:41:21 -0000

Awesome! Perl rocks \m/
Congrats to shadowcat systems too.
Good job guys! Keep Perl alive and famous!

Re: Perl Rocks Latin America

Carlos Kassab — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:23:06 -0000

From México, Congratulations to the Perl Mongers in Brazil.
Yes, it would be good to see the code.

Re: Perl Rocks Latin America

mdk — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:29:33 -0000

Nuba, you'd think I'd know that since I write it at least once a month - I will blame it on my general excitement over you guys :)

Re: Perl Rocks Latin America

Nuba — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:27:16 -0000

This was really cool, we Brazilian Perl monks are all having a blast! :D

@jnap the "fork me on github" banner at their entry's website will take you to https://github.com/desarrol...

@mdk it's São Paulo, not Sau Paulo :)

Re: Perl Rocks Latin America

mdk — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:43:43 -0000

I really don't know but I will pass that request on to the team via the Lead Developer and post here if they do :)

Re: Perl Rocks Latin America

John Napiorkowski — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:39:21 -0000

Awesome news! Any chance that code is going to show up in a public repo somewhere, so we can all take a look?

Re: Perl Rocks Latin America

Luke — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:46:01 -0000

Perl is a fantastic language for Open Data hacking. With data in all sorts of weird formats, CPAN is a blessing for consuming, transforming and representing open data.

Our award winning open data app: Recollect - http://recollect.net - is also written in Perl + Javascript.

Congrats to the winning team, and I hope to see more Open Data Perl hackers!

Re: We Need Quality Conferences Without High Cost

mdk — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:13:12 -0000

Absolutely, the comparison is a 'little' - 'very' unfair (dependent on how strongly you feel about it :) ), but my general feeling is that some of these larger conferences need a conference center so that they can 'be' a bigger conference. I don't always think there is a value in them being that, what value is paying 1,000 dollars to attend a single day of tracks, okay you can pick and choose across a large variety of events and there is a lot going on, but the value to payment ratio to me seems poor. It is an évent' principle, like a rock festival with 300 artists, sure you went to a rock festival with 300 artists, but how many of them did you see?. The larger Perl Conferences do have a centre, but because we sometimes have a community as opposed to corporate approach the value/usage of this is reduced or limited which is why we often use universities or colleges (who are not always cheaper to hire rooms from, but generally have all the facilities so the overall costs to the guests is lowered).

As for your own area, you perhaps should consider running a smaller conference for your local community, or a hackathon, workshop or similar. I ran the London Perl Workshop recently (my 4th as organiser) which was 250+ people and because we attracted sponsorship we were able to provide, lunch and evening buffet, coffee, cakes, training (professional sessions), the location and some drinks at the pub afterwards. So the cost to the attendees was zero. We had 'high'-level conference talks from speakers who regularly speak at larger events and are well known in our own community.

I also like the idea of cross community events that can be lower priced. I have been on the organisation team for some of these events this year and there is often greater sponsorship to run a smaller event as smaller businesses can become involved for a lower sponsorship price. I would hope that there are local language groups in your area who might want to come to a cross-language event. We all can learn from each other, heck most of the programmers I know are polyglot and work for companies using a either a language they don't use at home or a variety of languages.