Call for talks

[Marco Fontani]

Hello fellow Perlers,

Our next Glasgow.pm technical meeting will be in two weeks' time, on
Thursday 2010-11-11.

I have been promised a talk by one of our respectable members, but I'm
putting out a call for talks anyway as ideally we'd have more than one
talk on the day.

If you have something you'd like to share with the group that even
tangentially relates to Perl, you're more than welcome to reply and
book your spot for the next meeting.

Ideally we'd have one or two full-length talks (20 mins or so each),
and a number of lightning talks.

I have something almost ready on the topic of object-oriented mice. It
will likely be just a lightning talk.

As usual, the group will then retreat to the pub after the technical
meeting, for a social event.

A task for the day will be to find a pub that has beer, ales, food,
and.. new entry for this time: that doesn't have stag nights running
on the night.
Raise hands for the proposal of "All bar one"
(http://www.allbarone.co.uk/allbaroneglasgow/). It has beers,
pale/cask ales, and food.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon,

-marco-

[Miles Gould]

How many of us are DVCS users? Would anyone be interested in a talk comparing git and darcs?

Miles

[Paul McNally]

I won't make the next meet, apologies.

I have no experience with darcs, on that basis alone it would be interesting to see it compared to Git. If it's a question of being appropriate to a LUG, then definetly.

cheers,

Paul

[Marco Fontani]

> How many of us are DVCS users? Would anyone be interested in a talk
> comparing git and darcs?

Hi Miles,

I think most of us do use DVCS, at least in our daily job. Some of us
do use them at home as well.

The glasgow.pm.org site is available at
http://github.com/mfontani/glasgow-pm-website ;)

From my personal experience, we do tend to drop the "D" and use them
more as a VCS rather than a distributed one.

That said, I'd love to hear more about darcs vs Git ;)

I used darcs only in one occasion, to download/apply patches for the
(now practically defunct) ion3 window manager; I'm much more
comfortable with Git.

Thanks for the proposal, I look forward to hearing that talk ;)

Till soon,
-marco-

[Lateef Adeniji-Adele]

Hi Miles,

Would be looking forward to the talk. I have not used darcs before but do use git as a DVCS

Cheers

Lateef

[Wim Vanderbauwhede]

I would like to give a talk about an idea to automatically compile
statically typeable portions of Perl scripts.

Wim

On 28 October 2010 10:03, Lateef Adeniji-Adele

--
If it's pointless, what's the point?
If there is a point to it, what's the point?
(Tibor Fischer, "The Thought Gang")

[Marco Fontani]

> I would like to give a talk about an idea to automatically compile
> statically typeable portions of Perl scripts.

Hi Wim,

Sounds very interesting!
For the next meeting we have two talks already, one by Miles and one by Chris.
I've updated the website with this information.

I'm sure we should be able to accommodate three full-length talks on
our next meeting.
Please contact me privately and let me know how you'd like to be
linked from http://glasgow.pm.org/meetings/2010-11-11.html ;)

Looking forward to hearing from you soon

-marco-