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From: Robert Blackwell <robert@robertblackwell.com>

Date: September 27, 2008 9:26:05 PM CDT

To: pm_groups@pm.org

Subject: [pm_groups] Pittsburgh Perl Workshop Oct 11-12, 2008

Please forward this to your local Perl Monger group and anywhere you think might find people that would be interested.

Thanks

Robert Blackwell

The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is a low-cost technical conference held at the Carnegie Mellon University's Oakland Campus. The workshop will be held on October 11–12 2008.

* Classes

This year we are offering three great classes:

Dan Klein is back teaching From Zero to Perl.

http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/zerotoperl.html

Peter Scott - Maintaining Code While Staying Sane

http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/maintainingcode.html

brian d foy - Mastering Perl

http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/masteringperl.html

* Great Talks

The schedule can be found here http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/schedule.

* Hack-a-thons

We are having Pagtrick Michaud lead a Rakudo, (Perl 6) hack-a-thon.

* Bug Labs 

Bug Labs, http://buglabs.net will be giving a talk and having a hands on demo of their hardware.

We will also be giving details about a development grant for someone wanting to develop something with perl with Bug Labs hardware.

* GPU/CUDA

Have you been hearing about coding with your Graphics Card?  Well if not you will soon.  We are having a talk about coding with the GPU and a lab using Nvida's Cuda technology. 

http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html

* Community 

Come see old perl friends and make some new ones.  We will have plenty of social activities at night.

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