On Mar 18, 2011, at 11:54 PM, Karl Glazebrook wrote: > maybe. what sort of topics?
Well, the topic for the proposed podcast would be "Perl/PDL for scientific computing" (or whatever you, the panelists, fancy). Perhaps a brief history of PDL, where it is used now, an exposition of the strengths of the language for scientific problems, perhaps a comparison (albeit biased) with other languages/tools such as MATLAB, Python, IDL, C, etc. Really up to the podcasters. > > Are you taking about a new podcast or a episode in an existing one? Each podcast is its own free-standing episode. The podcasts thus far have been on 0. Strata Con and Big Data 1. Managing and Modernizing Legacy Code 2. Scientific Data Visualization 3. A Semiconductor is Not Someone Who Works on a Train 4. PyCon 2011 Recap 5. Reproducibility of Experiments (coming next week) 6. (This could be devoted to PDL) One of the invited guest panelists also get to choose the episode theme music... dunno which artist exemplifies Perl... Charlie Parker for improvisation, electronic/punk/headbanger for regular expressions? > > Karl > > On 18/03/2011, at 8:26 PM, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote: > >> Here at UW-Madison, there is a group of folks who gather under the moniker >> "The Hacker Within" to share experience on open source scientific computing >> [1]. One of the offsite members at UT-Austin, who also works for Enthought >> Corp, purveyors of fine Python-ware, came up with the idea of science >> podcasts [2]. This group generally has love to spare for Python. So, I >> thought, why not a podcast on PDL? >> >> Here is how it works -- 3 panelists are found, who join one moderator to do >> a show. They conference via Skype on the chosen day/time and chit-chat for >> 20-30 mins getting to know each other and discussing the topic at hand. >> Then, the recording begins. Each panelist gets 1.5-2 mins to talk about >> their perspective on the topic du jour. Then the moderator jumps in and asks >> questions, and the panelists go round and round again. The show ends with a >> 30 seconds rant from each panelist. The entire show is about 20 mins. The >> whole process takes one hour. >> >> Even though I thought up the idea for a PDL-focused podcast (actually, it >> should really be a "Perl for Scientific Computing" podcast, much in line >> with a recent thread on this list), I believe most everyone else on this >> list is more qualified than I to speak on this topic. >> >> I need three folks interested in spreading Perl/PDL/science/computing love. >> I can connect the three volunteers to the moderator. Any volunteers? >> >> I participated in the first episode (episode 0), and even though I am not >> photogenic at all, I daresay it was a rather fun experience. >> >> Puneet. >> >> [1] http://hackerwithin.org/thw/ >> [2] http://inscight.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Perldl mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
