I'd be interested. I could probably throw in $100 for a talk if its $500 for a class, I'd probably have to see if I can get my employer to pay for it.
> 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 > -- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
