Agreed. Frivolity is good too. A talk synopsis could read something like:
"Powered by Perl" Learn more about the swiss army knife of computer languages. Local Perl 'Mongers' will describe in a series of short lightning talks how they use Perl for work and play and why it is their language of choice. Nige On 13/05/2008, Amias Channer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 07:14 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > This is a great opportunity. But I would suggest asking them to > > run an open seminar for staff and students - not just sysadmins. I'd > > suggest a fairly general talk that has the aim of exciting people > > about Perl. > > Lightening talks are always enjoyable , people could do 5 minutes > on how to solve a particular problem with Perl. Most people can > concentrate or talk for 5 minutes so it gets lots of people involved. > > I could talk about catalyst or www::mechanise on a serious tip > or a roundup of some of the sillier perl modules from ACME::* > if frivolity is required. > > Toodle-pip > Amias > -- > Freelance programming , consultancy and hardware builds > blog.amias.org.uk * www.amias.org.uk * www.ecotalk.org.uk > > > _______________________________________________ > BristolBathPM mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm > _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
