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Issue #453 - 2020-03-30 - Online events? Yes, Online events!
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Hi there, I believe many of you work from home these days which is both hard, especially if you have young children, but many of you also save a lot of time not commuting. It seems that all the conferences, Meetups, and Perl Monger meetings are now cancelled, but I wonder, have you started to organize on-line meetings? Two weeks ago, when the semester was postponed at the Weizmann Institute of Science, I ran my 'Programming Bootcamp for scientists' online. It wasn't easy (5 days, 9:00-17:00 with 30 students) but we managed. On-line meetings have challanges, but they also have advantages over class-room trainings. Since then I ran two workshops every week. I am still trying to figure out how to replace the mingling part to build community around it, but it is certainly interesting. Have you attended any on-line meetings? Have you organized any? Let us know about your experience! - Just a few minutes after writing this I chatted with Thomas Klausner (domm) who mentioned that some of the German Perl Monger groups already organize on-line events. So if you are German-speaking and could never attend a meeting as all of them were too far for you, now you can actually join them on-line. Domm also mentioned that if you are interested organizing on-line events, the venue mailing list of YEF is available for you. Register there! Then I got a message from Todd Rinaldo telling me about the Conference in the Cloud. That is, The Perl and Raku Conference in the cloud. Finally let me tell you about another, much smaller, initiative: Thomas Klausner and myself are going to host a 'Mob programming' session for Perl (and maybe also for Raku) programmers. See below! Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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Instsead of the in-person Perl Conference, the TPF started to organize an even in the Cloud. You can already submit your talk proposals! |
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) I have been running training courses in class-rooms for ages, but those have a geographical limitation. I ran a few on-line workshops for free, which were great, but they are limited in scope and I run them in Hebrew so probably not relevant to you. I wonder if you'd be interested in workshops or full-length courses I run online for a reasonable fee? The main topics I offer: Docker, Git, GitHub, Linux (Bash), Test Automation, CI (Jenkins, Travis-CI) Cloud, Perl, Python, Golang. Let me know what would be interesting to you and in which timezone are you in by sending an e-mail to gabor@szabgab.com ! |
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Online Events
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by Thomas Klausner (DOMM) As all the in-person events are cancelled many groups started to organize on-line events. |
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by Woody Zuill Woody, who 'stumbled upon the idea of Mob Programming', as he puts it, a couple of years ago now organizes live on-line Mob Programming events. I just participated in one of these. If you are interested, check out his book and watch one of his presentations on mob programming and follow him on Twitter | 
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) As an experiment Thomas Klausner (domm) and myself are going to host a 'Mob programming' session on April 2 Thursday at 15:00 UTC (17:00 CET, 8 am PDT). It will run via Zoom and we'll probably use Cyber Dojo. It supports Perl 5, though it does not support Raku. Yet. I have hopes that by that time the Raku developers will be able to send a PR to the maintainers of Cyber-Dojo or that we'll have an alternative that also supports Raku. If you are interested to join, send me an e-mail (gabor@szabgab.com), and I'll send you an invitation. |
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