[ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 12th April 2010

[Paul Makepeace]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 14:36, Damian Conway <damian at conway.org> wrote:
> Chris is correct that I rarely ever allow my talks to be recorded or uploaded.
> And right about the reason too. Information may well want to be free, but it
> therefore also wants my family to starve.
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> However...
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> In this particular case, because James and Paul asked most politely, and
> because I certainly don't want James to feel eviserated, and because so
> many individuals from London.pm have been so very generous in supporting
> me over so many years, and because NO-ONE IS *EVER* GOING TO UPLOAD THE
> RECORDING TO YOUTUBE OR VIMEO OR ANY OTHER PUBLIC REPOSITORY but instead
> will quietly pass it around only amongst themselves, and because as a
> community we really wouldn't want this particular talk to publicly
> represent modern Perl (any more than we'd want SelfGOL to), then in this
> particular case I'm happy to grant permission for this talk to be recorded and
> shared discreetly amongst the local members of London.pm.

Fabulous, thank you. I was going to actually suggest something like
this on the basis there are enough eyeballs to keep this honest so how
great to be pre-empted.

Glad there is, so to speak, a "happy medium" ;-)

Paul

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> Damian
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