Maybe you have already, but I think you should focus on hunting down the people in academia or research that already use perl for data science, and try recruiting them to come to the conference. Especially any that might never have even thought about attending a Perl conference. While I find science topics interesting, my day job is all about web apps, so I'm likely to attend those if forced to decide between competing talks.
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Great thought. I am also going to hit up the IRC channels.
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It might be interesting/useful to have a list of Perl Monks who are interested in science.
Here is my first attempt at such a list.
Please feel free to mention others I haven't noticed.
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I'm interested in science--I'm actually a certified biology teacher. However, it is highly unlikely I'll have opportunity to be anywhere near Las Vegas next year.
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The list of monks who aren't interested in science would be a hell of a lot shorter.
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The seed of this idea was launched (as far as I know) in one of the Slack channels on the Perl Foundation's Slack workspace during TPRC held here in Toronto in JUL-2023. A nucleus of interested people have assembled lists of people, software tools, and relevant Perl-driven websites that we know of (as suggested above). | [reply] |
Based on this node, I've just updated the links I keep on this topic at:
Further useful references welcome.
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