yapc::Europe, "Art of Perl"

I don't know when YAPC Europe will happen, but they say the theme is "The
Art of Perl", and I've tell at the North America YAPC that they would
indeed be interested in hearing about computer-generated music a` la what
many clever people on this list have been known to crank out with
MIDI-Perl.  If I were a musician (and it'd help if I lived in Europe), I'd
submit an abstract for a talk that needn't be much more than a walk-thru of
a few basic ideas of algorithmic music (why just completely random notes of
random intervals isn't so fun; whee to go from there), and then apply it in
a walk thru of a program that actually spits out some algorithmic music.
My feeling, based on the audiences at the North America YAPC, is that such
a talk would be very well received.

Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 03:52:23 +0100
From: Greg McCarroll <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: yapc::Europe - news flash!
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			yapc::Europe News Flash

I am extremely pleased to announce that the yapc::Europe conference
now has a venue. The ICA (http://www.ica.org.uk) will be acting as
partners in this conference in much the same way as CMU has done for
yapc::America::North.

They are probably situated in one of the most prestigious areas of
London and initial inspection of their premises is very impressive.

The conference will have the theme of 'The Art of Perl' and Saturday
afternoon will have a special series of talks involving the use of
Perl to generate conventional art, Perl programming as an artform in
its own right and Open Source in Europe this last talk  drawing on
parallels between Open Source and some aspect of the art community.

The members of London.pm deserve special thanks as they have been
involved a lot in suggesting, researching and now, securing a
venue(s). This involvement illustrates the fact that this conference
is very much an inclusive process rather than exclusive, and I'd like
you all to remember that when the call for papers goes out very soon.

Greg

p.s. you will also all be pleased to know that Leon, Johnathan and
myself did a good deal of research on the bar of the venue after the
meeting ;-)



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