From glim at mycybernet.net Sat Mar 19 11:56:00 2005 From: glim at mycybernet.net (glim@mycybernet.net) Date: Sat Mar 19 12:23:33 2005 Subject: [CMI.PM] Yet Another Perl Conference, North America, 2005 Registration now open Message-ID: ----------> Yet Another Perl Conference, North America, 2005 Registration now open. Conference dates: Monday - Wednesday 27 - 29 June 2005 Location: 89 Chestnut Street http://89chestnut.com/ University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada Info at: http://yapc.org/America Direct registration: http://donate.perlfoundation.org/index.pl?node=registrant%20info&conference_id=423 Full registration fee $85 (USD) Book now for great deals on accommodations and ensure a space for yourself. Speaking slots are still open. If you would like to present at YAPC::NA 2005, see: http://yapc.org/America/cfp-2005.shtml Details of this announcement: http://yapc.org/America/registration-announcement-2005.txt <---------- More Details ============ Registration for YAPC::NA (Yet Another Perl Conference, North America) 2005 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is now open. The conference registration price is USD$85. This price includes admission to all aspects of the conference, respectable amounts of catering, several activities and a few conference goodies. The YAPC North America 2005 conference features... * Fantastic speakers + most are the core creators of the technology on which they present + many are professional IT authors, trainers and conference speakers * An excellent learning opportunity * A chance to meet Perl professionals from all over North America and the world + YAPC attendees tend to be very involved in Perl and so are another great way to learn more about what the language has to offer beyond just what the speakers have to say * Extra-curricular / after hours activities * A great location in downtown Toronto All this, and the price is more than an order of magnitude cheaper than what commercial conferences can offer. This is because YAPC is a 100% volunteer effort, both from its organizers and its speakers. Quality is *not* sacrificed to achieve this stunning level of affordability. YAPC provides the best value-for-dollar in IT conferences. And it's a ton of fun, too. The dates of the conference are Monday - Wednesday 27-29 June 2005. The location is 89 Chestnut Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Note that a different date block was previously announced; we moved the conference date to accommodate venue availability.) http://89chestnut.com/ -- a facility within the University of Toronto If you are at all interested in attending the conference... Book now! Book now! Book now! We have room for about 400 attendees and we hope to sell out well in advance of the late June conference date. However, the critical matter is that of hotels. The YAPC::NA 2005 organizers have made group arrangements with several facilities around the city to provide _excellent_ quality accommodations in _very_ convenient locations at _terrific_ prices for the _full_ capacity of conference attendees (around 400 people). (Finding, booking and paying accommodations is the responsibility of the attendees, but we will provide you with a list of the hotels and university dorms to try first based on our group arrangement with them when you register for the conference. Also, see the web site at http://yapc.org/America/accommodations-2005.shtml. More details will be up shortly. The dorm option will be approx. C$55/night, the hotel options will be more like C$90/night, and for slightly different prices there will be options for putting more than 1 person in a room. Exact details and how to book will be emailed directly to people who have registered for the conference as soon as they become available.) *The catch is -- book now!!* The group reservations will expire in early May, at which point in time the group rates will mostly still apply, but the rooms will be given out on an "availability basis". Which means that someone else outside of the YAPC group can book the rooms as well. Make no mistake -- the rooms *will* be sold. Toronto is a very active conference city in the summer and there will be _no_ guarantee of vacancies either at the facilities we made arrangements with or anywhere else in the city if you leave it to within 6 weeks of the conference date. So, if you want to save yourself the likely-fruitless headache of scrambling around looking for accommodations at the last minute, Book now! Book now! Book now! Have any questions? Email na-help@yapc.org for more details. Additionally, we are still welcoming submissions for proposals via: http://yapc.org/America/cfp-2005.shtml The close of the call-for-papers is April 18, 2005 at 11:59 pm (Toronto time). If you have any questions regarding the call-for-papers or speaking at YAPC::NA 2005 please email na-author@yapc.org We would love to hear from potential sponsors. Please contact the organizers at na-sponsor@yapc.org to learn about the benefits of sponsorship. From lewart at uiuc.edu Tue Mar 22 08:08:29 2005 From: lewart at uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart) Date: Tue Mar 22 08:08:39 2005 Subject: [CMI.PM] [Fwd: [pm_groups] Free copies of "Higher-Order Perl" probably available] Message-ID: <424042FD.3070102@uiuc.edu> Champaign-Urbana Perl Mongers, If you'd like to review a book, read on. Have fun! Dan http://cmi.pm.org/ -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [pm_groups] Free copies of "Higher-Order Perl" probably available Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:17:37 -0500 From: Walt Mankowski Reply-To: mjd-hop-review@plover.com To: pm_groups@pm.org CC: Mark Jason Dominus Mark asked me to forward this to the list. Please direct any inquiries to him at mjd-hop-review@plover.com. Walt ----- Forwarded message from Mark Jason Dominus ----- To: waltman@pobox.com Subject: To be sent to pm_groups@pm.org Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:16:49 -0500 From: Mark Jason Dominus I'd be grateful if you could pass this along. Note the Reply-To:. Thanks. ------- Forwarded Message Return-Path: mjd@plover.com Delivery-Date: Mon Mar 21 06:54:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mjd-filter-none@plover.com Received: (qmail 6681 invoked by uid 119); 21 Mar 2005 06:54:14 -0000 Message-ID: <20050321065414.6680.qmail@plover.com> To: pm_groups@pm.org Reply-to: mjd-hop-review@plover.com Subject: Free copies of "Higher-Order Perl" probably available Organization: Plover Systems Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:54:14 -0500 From: Mark Jason Dominus The marketing folks at Morgan Kaufmann have asked me to provide them with a list of names of people who should receive free copies of my new book, "Higher-Order Perl". If you would like a copy for your PM group, please send the name of your group and your contact address to me at mjd-hop-review@plover.com. I don't know how many copies are available; I plan to pass along all the information I get and let the publishers figure out whom to send books to. If you want more information ahout the book, it is available from http://perl.plover.com/hop/ It's a really good book, and I recommend it. Thanks. ------- End of Forwarded Message ----- End forwarded message ----- From stigliz at gmail.com Tue Mar 22 14:52:04 2005 From: stigliz at gmail.com (Amedeo Guffanti) Date: Tue Mar 22 14:52:12 2005 Subject: [CMI.PM] Reseach on Open Source Developers Message-ID: Hi, I'm Amedeo Guffanti, a 22 years old Italian student at Bocconi university in Milan, I' m doing a research to write a work about Open Source Movement, in particular, about the developers. I try to collect the opinions of developers like you. My little poll is at this page : http://www.alberocavo.com/OSSprojects.asp It takes less then 4 minutes. I hope the Open Source Communities will give me a help for my research. I apologize for taking your time and for my English that I hope it's understandable ^^ Sincerly, Amedeo Guffanti