[LRUG] Dynamic Languages evening at the BCS

Roland Swingler roland.swingler at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 04:16:34 PDT 2009


Slightly off-topic, but it appears I'm too stupid to actually sign up
for this event. It seems to want you to register with a BCS
pin/membership number, which I don't have not being a member. Has
anyone else managed to circumnavigate this?

Cheers,
Roland

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Tim Cowlishaw <tim at timcowlishaw.co.uk> wrote:
> Hey Muz,
>
> I've got a short talk I gave to a bunch of arty-types on using ruby/shoes
> for graphics and arts related programming in a similar way to something like
> processing. It's not massively rigorous though, so might be a bit dull for
> an audience of hardened computer-scientists. If you're pressed for people
> though, i might be able to contribute, although it does depend on what time
> the event is as i may have to be elsewhere that evening :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim
>
> On 3 Jun 2009, at 11:44, Murray Steele wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> There's still room for loads more talks at the Dynamic Languages Evening
>> at the BCS if anyone is interested in giving one.  It'd be great if LRUG
>> could make a stronger showing at this event, as otherwise Léon is
>> threatening to fill it up with Perl talks.  Is that what you want?
>>
>> Remember the talks at this event only need to be 5 minutes long.  Are you
>> telling me that more of you don't have 5 minutes of stuff to talk about?
>>
>> Muz
>>
>> 2009/5/16 Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com>
>> From the BCS - the sign up links for this event:
>>
>> The sign-up page is now up on the BCS website:
>>
>> http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.25940
>>
>> There is also the obligatory Facebook event:
>>
>> http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=85358528644
>>
>> Please throw the links far and wide :)
>>
>> Muz
>>
>> 2009/5/14 Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Léon Brocard from the London Perl Mongers is putting together a Dynamic
>> Languages evening on Wednesday 10th of June at the British Computer Society.
>>  The plan for the evening is that there will be talks about Perl, Python,
>> Ruby and PHP given by members of the local user groups.  The talks will be 5
>> minute lightning talks and they're hoping for 5 from each language group to
>> fill out the evening.  This'll clearly cover a lot of ground in one evening
>> and sounds like it could be fun.  They're sorting out the sign up page
>> today, and when I get the URL I'll let you all know about it.
>>
>> However, this isn't just a event notificaiton email, the evening needs
>> some rubyists to volunteer to give talks.  Anyone up for it?  There's no
>> theme for the evening so you can talk about anything ruby.  You don't even
>> have to make it an "intro to" style talks just because not everyone in the
>> room is a rubyist.  As long as you come up with an interesting 5 minutes
>> about ruby people will get it.
>>
>> If you are interested, let me know and I'll put you in touch with Léon.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Muz
>>
>> ps. That's 2 days after the June LRUG meeting (more details on which
>> shortly), so you can have Super-Double Ruby Fun that week.  Yay!
>>
>>
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