Re: Lua workshop

[Robert Anderberg <lua@...>]

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:

> > Hey, how about friendly Atlanta Georgia
> >    
>
> There are certainly lots of nice places. But up to now that we have only
> got two concrete hosting offers: one from Mark Harmburg at Adobe in San
> Jose, CA, and one from Erik Hougaard in Copenhagen, Denmark. Thank you both!
> (Of course, it can be here in Rio as well.)
>
> The main point now is to decide *whether* we want to go ahead with this;
> in other words, how many people would really be interested in attending a
> Lua workshop.
>  
I'd be interested, but I can only really make somewhere in the UK, maybe 
I could get to Denmark if I could find a cheap flight :)

I'd love to be involved in the games roundtable so that maybe I  could 
dispel some myths from the last one :)

I started a list here: http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaWorkShop

> Like I said in my original post, I imagine the workshop to be a 2-day event.
> We could have activities like the ones below.
> --lhf
>
> Tutorial on Lua -- the language
> Tutorial on Lua -- the C API
> Tutorial on Lua -- binding C libraries
>
> Plenary talk -- The evolution of Lua
>
> Roundtable -- The future of Lua
> Roundtable -- Lua in games
> Roundtable -- Lua in industry
> Roundtable -- Lua in embedded projects
> Roundtable -- Ready-made Lua installations
>
> Track -- Lua internals
> Track -- Lua applications
>
> Contributed talks -- Your experience using Lua
>  
This all sounds very interesting. I'd also like a talk on optimisation.

Rob