Back Story on the Guido, Larry Wall, Anders Hejlsberg, and James Gosling benefit event for CSforALL
Just posted this to events. Thought it'd be fun to share with the community.
Type of Event: Charitable event benefitting CSforALL. Ruthe Farmer event chair continues the tech inclusion work she started as a senior policy advisor for tech inclusion for Obama as Chief Evangelist of CSforALL.
This event started in a conversation between Larry Hastings and PuPPy and PyCascades founder Don Sheu. At PuPPy's fourth anniversary event, for Guido's BDFL retirement, Don proposed to Larry that PuPPy leads a crowdfunding campaign to send Guido and his family on a Cunard cruise that visits over 50 ports of call, twice. Larry responded, Guido would hate that. He hates traveling. Guido likes discussing the intricacies of computing with others who care as much as he does.
Don replied, he can do that. The result is that on April 2nd, James Gosling, Anders Hejlsberg, Larry Wall, and Guido will delve deep into language design and computing. Carol Willing will moderate the discussion.
No broadcast of the livestream. There are requests out to potential donors to support a broadcast of the livestream. Otherwise being on premises is the only way to watch this historic discussion.
bdfl-gift.pspython.com
Well done, Don and team! Much as I'd love to be there, I'll have to rely on video.
Which I will be more than sure not to miss!
Kind regards, Steve Holden
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 12:35 PM Don Sheu don@sheu.com wrote:
Just posted this to events. Thought it'd be fun to share with the community.
Type of Event: Charitable event benefitting CSforALL. Ruthe Farmer event chair continues the tech inclusion work she started as a senior policy advisor for tech inclusion for Obama as Chief Evangelist of CSforALL.
This event started in a conversation between Larry Hastings and PuPPy and PyCascades founder Don Sheu. At PuPPy's fourth anniversary event, for Guido's BDFL retirement, Don proposed to Larry that PuPPy leads a crowdfunding campaign to send Guido and his family on a Cunard cruise that visits over 50 ports of call, twice. Larry responded, Guido would hate that. He hates traveling. Guido likes discussing the intricacies of computing with others who care as much as he does.
Don replied, he can do that. The result is that on April 2nd, James Gosling, Anders Hejlsberg, Larry Wall, and Guido will delve deep into language design and computing. Carol Willing will moderate the discussion.
No broadcast of the livestream. There are requests out to potential donors to support a broadcast of the livestream. Otherwise being on premises is the only way to watch this historic discussion.
bdfl-gift.pspython.com
-- Don Sheu 312.880.9389
My Python user group PuPPy convenes in Seattle every month 2nd Wednesdays https://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/251965475/ http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/232708762/
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Let us know whether and when there will be a video of the events. Such events can be fun to watch / listen to. I've blogged about one or two on similar lines, here is the link for one, that I remember:
Video: C++, Rust, D and Go: Panel at LangNext '14
https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2016/08/video-c-rust-d-and-go-panel-at-langnext....
Excerpt from the post:
[ The languages discussed are: C++, D, Go and Rust, by a panel at LangNext '14.
The panel consisted of key team members from the teams working on those languages:
- Bjarne Stroustrup for C++ - Andrei Alexandrescu for D - Rob Pike for Go - Niko Matsakis for Rust
]
There is an interesting / amusing vignette involving Stroustrup and others on the subject of C++ compilation times, near the end of the video, IIRC.
- Vasudev
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 08:43:28PM +0000, Steve Holden wrote:
Well done, Don and team! Much as I'd love to be there, I'll have to rely on video.
Which I will be more than sure not to miss!
I think one of us hasn't understood Don's comment:
No broadcast of the livestream. There are requests out to potential donors to support a broadcast of the livestream. Otherwise being on premises is the only way to watch this historic discussion.
because it sounds to me that if you can't be there in person, you will miss it :-(
In Don I trust.
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:05 PM Steven D'Aprano steve+psf@pearwood.info wrote:
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 08:43:28PM +0000, Steve Holden wrote:
Well done, Don and team! Much as I'd love to be there, I'll have to rely
on
video.
Which I will be more than sure not to miss!
I think one of us hasn't understood Don's comment:
No broadcast of the livestream. There are requests out to potential
donors
to support a broadcast of the livestream. Otherwise being on premises
is
the only way to watch this historic discussion.
because it sounds to me that if you can't be there in person, you will miss it :-(
-- Steven _______________________________________________ PSF-Community mailing list PSF-Community@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community
The finances of the event, it's expensive. I have put out pitches for sponsoring the livestream. If nobody buys, I'm planning on visiting Python groups around the world to put on viewing parties before selling the video on a shareware license. Beneficiary of the proceeds is CSforALL and they work on tech inclusion. Ruthe Farmer the event chair was an Obama advisor on tech inclusion. She continues this work as Chief Evangelist for CSforALL.
For those who can make the trip, here's a 50% discount code bdfl-retirement. It's good till until 4:59pm PDT, 22nd March or 2019-03-22 23:59:59 UTC, https://ti.to/puppy/CSforALLtechinclusion/discount/bdfl-retirement
Looking at Expedia, flights from SFO to SEA, low as $232. I found flights from Chicago at $357.
Beliebers would make the trip for a Justin Bieber show. We have here some of the stellar folks of software who have given a lot to the world. Guido described the event as historic because he's never been a part of a discussion like this before. He's made suggestions to the programming to make sure we have a substantial conversation. Support our craftspeople, make them feel appreciated. And the proceeds benefit literally, it's for the kids.
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 4:10 PM Steve Holden steve@holdenweb.com wrote:
In Don I trust.
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:05 PM Steven D'Aprano steve+psf@pearwood.info wrote:
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 08:43:28PM +0000, Steve Holden wrote:
Well done, Don and team! Much as I'd love to be there, I'll have to
rely on
video.
Which I will be more than sure not to miss!
I think one of us hasn't understood Don's comment:
No broadcast of the livestream. There are requests out to potential
donors
to support a broadcast of the livestream. Otherwise being on premises
is
the only way to watch this historic discussion.
because it sounds to me that if you can't be there in person, you will miss it :-(
-- Steven _______________________________________________ PSF-Community mailing list PSF-Community@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community
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Vasudev Ram