On Mar 19, 2011, at 12:43 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2011, at 12:16 AM, Karl Glazebrook wrote: > >> I am not very audiogenic but I would be happy to give it a go if invited. > > > Well then. I have two volunteers -- Karl Glazebrook and Craig DeForest. If I > get one more volunteer, we will have a quorum, and the podcast could be as > early as the week after next. > > If you are volunteering, kindly send me a link to your bio (just a couple of > lines please -- not a list of all the 200 papers you have published) so we > can brag about it on the inscight web site. > > Anyone else, anyone? Seriously, if you can write PDL better than me, you are > eligible to be a panelist.
crickets chirping... sound of one hand clapping... anyone? I need one more person. > >> >> On 18/03/2011, at 10:03 PM, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote: >> >>> >>> 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
