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/
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