Hi! I could donate to help fund a talk. If there is a course offered, I might be able to make it -- I don't know if I can guarantee it though.
Ricky 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 The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
