Possible future talk; interest?

[Madison Kelly]

Christopher Browne wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>  So then, would there be any interest in an intermittent talk about Perl? I
>> was thinking along the lines of "Introduction to Writing Perl Modules",
>> "Introduction to Object Oriented Perl" or something similar/variation
>> of/combination of.
> 
> Let me be devil's advocate for a moment...
> 
> There is a perfectly good Perl users group in Toronto, called Toronto
> Perl Mongers.  http://to.pm.org/
> 
> It seems to me as though people that are interested in Perl (I happen
> to find myself not in that set) are more likely to find that to be a
> preferable forum for this.
> 
> I could be wrong, but I think it is worth your thinking it thru to
> ensure that you feel confident that you are presenting
> "forum-appropriately."
> 
> There may very well be a cross-section where it *IS* worthwhile to
> present such at TLUG.
> 
> I was at a conference the other month (PGEast) where there was
> supposed to be a PostgreSQL focus.  I accidentally wound up at a talk
> on Groovy-on-Grails (a Java equivalent to Ruby-on-Rails) where the
> speaker barely touched on PG-relevant issues, which seemed a problem,
> at first.  (And seemingly making it all hugely irrelevant to me :-).)
> Surprisingly, I was the question-meister in that talk, with some
> fairly mean questions; it turned out that there were some mighty
> interesting bits relating to database schema management where we were
> able to satisfy everyone that there are sane ways of managing Grails
> deployments.  You're not forced to make DBAs cross :-).
> 
> That was a pleasant surprise, to find it was relevant when it
> initially did not seem so.
> 
> One other warning:  There's some HUGE opinionated positions on Perl at
> TLUG; Drew has a history of getting enormously over-enthusiastic about
> Perl 6 stuff, and that's got a fair risk of looking like heckling :-).
> 
> I'm not saying "don't do it" - but I'm not sure the same talks would
> be good for TLUG and TPM...

These are fair notes, and truth be told, I offered to present the same 
talk to TPM. I debated offering on TLUG, but figured Perl falls under 
"Linux", so offered.

At first I got narry a reply to my offer, positive or otherwise. I 
assumed that meant it was too specific for TLUG, and it still may be. 
Though I've always been a believer in "nothing ventured, nothing 
gained", so I offered just the same.

As for Drew, he works in the office beside me. So if he heckles me too 
much I'll just go randomly unplug stuff on him. :D

Madi
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