From lucifer at chiark.greenend.org.uk Tue Sep 14 14:00:47 2010 From: lucifer at chiark.greenend.org.uk (lucifer at chiark.greenend.org.uk) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:00:47 +0000 Subject: [Cam-pm] London Perl Workshop 2010 (fwd) Message-ID: FYI... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Message-ID: <4C8E45D0.40500 at shadowcat.co.uk> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:40:00 +0100 From: Mark Keating To: London Announce Subject: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Workshop 2010 It is my pleasure and joy to announce the London Perl Workshop for 2010. *When and Where:* The London Perl Workshop will once again be held at the University of London's Cavendish Campus on Saturday 4th December 2010. I would like to thank Sean Tohill at the University for all of his efforts in securing us the venue. *Theme:* This years theme is Perl Flavours. We would like to accept talks and workshops that centre around the notion of a variety of Perl languages and implementations such as Camelia, Rakudo and Raptor. As always speakers can submit talks on any subject, but talks that focus on our theme will be given a higher priority during any selection process. *Website:* The website will be live very soon on http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2009/ ! * Keynote:* In addition to the fun of submitting a talk, one of the speakers, submitting a talk of 40 minutes, may be selected to give this years Keynote speech. To add a little excitement the talk that best fits this years theme (potentially given by a known experienced speaker, but that is not a condition) will be chosen for the honoured place as the keynote. If you have any questions or queries then please do not hesitate to ask. * Volunteers:* As always we would appreciate a number of volunteers to help with a variety of tasks during the day. If you think you can help and would like to be one of these brave souls then please let Mark know as soon as possible. Some of the volunteers will be needed for: /*Setting up:*/ Making sure the venue is set up in the early morning (around 8-8.30) and helping with the placing of signs, tables, and the arrangment of sponsorship items and registration. /*Talks:*/ A volunteer is needed in each room to time the talk and hold up an appropriate sign warning the speaker of how long they have left, this can be composed from a list of people who are definitely attending a talk (as opposed to an all day volunteer) once the schedule goes up. An alternate idea is to get the speakers in each room to nominate a member of the audience as the "timer" - this will be used if people believe it is the best option. /*Video:*/ There will be video cameras in each of the lecture halls and suitable volunteers are needed to control the cameras, make sure the talks are recorded and give harsh looks to anyone making a noise near the cameras microphone (the use of non-harmful projectile weaponry is being considered ;) ). This year we will be asking all presenters to provide their slides as: Presentation (Open Office or Keynote) Bitmap image, jpeg, gif png etc. SVG Screencast Video format (mpeg etc., - must be timed to fit the presentation though!) Slides will be added to the video of the speakers in post production to provide the best possible experience. Once again contact mdk if you have any questions or queries. All speakers will be asked to sign a Creative Commons Licence for the usage of their presentations. This usage will simply be to promote the conference, Perl community and the Perl language, the videos will be available on sites such as PresentingPerl.org and if possible YAPC.tv. *Sponsors:* As with each year the London Perl Workshop aims to be a 'free' event for those people who attend it. With that in mind we seek each year for a range of sponsors to help support us. If you work for a company that is using Perl who you believe would benefit from the exposure they would gain from being a sponsor of this event then please contact Mark immediately. We are looking for new sponsors each year and new ways in which to enhance their profile and further our event. So please do not hesitate to contact us with a sponsorship idea. As always a group of sponsors have already come forward to set up the "sponsored 'free' beer" at the after-venue event. We will let you know of the details in a future email. *Accommodation:* Each year there is a spur to find cheap rooms in London and with some it is a matter of being given a spare bed/sofa from the local Mongers living in and around London. If you have a spare bed or can put up a fellow Perler for a couple of nights around the conference place yourself on the wiki once it is launched and lets see if we can lessen the cost and broaden the uptake for our conference. If you are looking to try and get to the conference and the barrier is accommodation place your name on the same page and we can hope that someone will offer you a place to rest your weary head. *Announce:* Please forward this mail to any appropriate list that it does not appear on. As always any communication concerning the workshop can be sent to Mark Keating (m.keating(at)shadowcat.co.uk). Your cooperation and participation is, as always, greatly appreciated. -mdk -- Mark Keating BA (Hons) | Writer, Photographer, Cat-Herder Managing Director | Shadowcat Systems Limited Director/Secretary | Enlightened Perl Organisation co-Leader | North West England Perl Mongers http://www.shadowcat.co.uk | http://www.enlightenedperl.org http://northwestengland.pm.org | http://linkedin.com/in/markkeating From robbiebow at gmail.com Mon Sep 27 00:29:40 2010 From: robbiebow at gmail.com (Robbie Bow) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:29:40 +0100 Subject: [Cam-pm] Freelance Catalyst Support Work Message-ID: Hi all I have a client that needs a new freelancer (as I am unable to continue doing freelance) do support their Catalyst based web sites. It's not regular work (as in it comes in ad hoc), but the rates are pretty good and the work they want is pretty straightforward. The two sites, although built on Catalyst, are built very differently (by me). There's no tests to speak of, but there is version control (SVN), and is hosted in a dedicated Debian server hosted by Bytemark. If you're interested, feel free to ask any questions and I shall endeavour to answer them! Cheerio Robbie