Volity presentation at MIT, April 10

[prog]

I will be giving a technical presentation about Volity to the Tuesday, April 10 meeting of the Boston Perl Mongers. The meeting runs from 7 to 9 at MIT E51-376, and it's open to the public, so you should totally come if you're in town and want to see me jabber about Volity from a hackerly standpoint. I would love to see some familiar faces in the audience!

Due to the venue, the talk will have a Perlish bent, but as it intends to introduce the Volity concept in its entirety it should prove interesting to any game hacker. Part of my goal here is to create a presentation that I can modularize for other types of audiences as appropriate - if it goes over well (and I think it will) this will be something I'll want to take to conferences.

A typical Boston.pm meeting has two presentations, and I don't know whether mine will be first or second. Yes, this conflicts with at least one local social event, but that is not in my control. Sorry!

Comments

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

Heh, I get it. Boston.pm.

I feel like I should go to these sort of things and network. But I am scared that I might become an even bigger nerd than I already am. Although NOT going to these things is also making me more of a nerd, so I guess I can't win.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Aw, give it a try. There tends to be cool people mixed in with the nerdinerds, and the presentations can teach you something if they're interesting (see above).

You can strengthen your non-nerdiness by making an exercise of identifying attendees nerdier than you, isolating why this is, and muttering "there but for the grace of god go I" at them under your breath.

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

Sounds like I need to overcome my irrational fear then. :) How does one go about finding the good meet-ups?