I'm in — both for the talk and the course, if you manage to make either happen. Sign me up :)
Best -F On Apr 6, 2013, at 7:04 PM, Uri Guttman <[email protected]> wrote: > hi all, > > recently i asked damian conway if he would be interested in visiting boston > and doing a talk here. he would come if we can cover his local expenses and > his schedule works for a visit. this is something toronto has done a couple > of times. if he just comes here for a talk his expenses would be about $1k > (hotel and plane). he said he may have a paying client here and if he does, > we would only need to cover his hotel for 2 nights which is about $500. given > we had 70 people at his last talk here (which had the infamous foil hat > competition) this would be an easy expense to cover. also some of you work at > places that could donate $100 or more towards this. what is the general > feeling out there for supporting a damian visit? > > one other idea is to also have an day or two of course taught by damian and > open to the public. in the past this was about $500/person per day and we > needed about 12 as a minimum to sign up. here are the courses he could teach: > > http://damian.conway.org/Courses/ > > if you are new to perl or this list and haven't heard much about damian > conway, he is arguably the best perl trainer on the planet and one of the > most interesting and fun speakers around. > > thanx, > > uri > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _________________________________________ -- "'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge" - Richard Fish (Federico L. Lucifredi) - flucifredi at acm.org - GnuPG 0x4A73884C _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
