From joshua.mcadams at gmail.com Thu Jun 1 08:11:09 2006 From: joshua.mcadams at gmail.com (Joshua McAdams) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 11:11:09 -0400 Subject: [Charlotte.PM] YAPC::NA Message-ID: <49d805d70606010811k150a9464gb574f24651a26d49@mail.gmail.com> Hi there fellow Perl Mongers. I'm writing to remind you all that YAPC::NA is only a few weeks away. The conference will be held in Chicago June 26th through 28th and will feature four simultaneous sessions of Perl talks for three days in addition to a job fair, banquet, and auction. After the conference Damian Conway, Randal Schwartz, and brian d foy will be sticking around and conducting professional training classes and extremely reduced prices. This email is a little spammy (sorry about that), but I just wanted to remind you all about the conference and also ask for your help in promoting it so that we can fill up the few spots that are remaining. For more information check out http://www.yapcchicago.org. We invite you to put up posters: http://yapcchicago.org/yapc_poster.pdf http://yapcchicago.org/yapc_poster_white.pdf Or maybe a web banner: http://www.yapcchicago.org/yapc_banner_wide.jpg http://www.yapcchicago.org/yapc_banner_narrow.jpg Thank you for your help in making YAPC a success once again, Josh McAdams From william at knowmad.com Wed Jun 14 15:25:11 2006 From: william at knowmad.com (William McKee) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:25:11 -0400 Subject: [Charlotte.PM] Perl Mongers meeting -- Thurs, 6/15 @ 7pm Message-ID: <20060614222505.GA5951@knowmad.com> Hello Mongers! Our next social meeting is tomorrow night, and I'll finally be in town to join the group. Come out to talk about Perl, Chicago (for those going to YAPC::NA), and other related subjects (such as MJD's new book "Higher Order Perl"). There is not a venue yet, so I'll open the voting by proposing Ri Ra's in uptown. There is inexpensive parking at 7th Street Station or you can take your chances on the street. Anyone want to 2nd that or provide an alternative? See you at the meeting, William -- Knowmad Services Inc. http://www.knowmad.com From jim1138 at gmail.com Thu Jun 15 08:31:38 2006 From: jim1138 at gmail.com (Jim Herring) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:31:38 -0400 Subject: [Charlotte.PM] Perl Mongers meeting -- Thurs, 6/15 @ 7pm In-Reply-To: <20060614222505.GA5951@knowmad.com> References: <20060614222505.GA5951@knowmad.com> Message-ID: One near by alternative with FREE PARKING is the Philosopher's Stone at 7th & Pecan, used to be Bayou Kitchen. They also have my favorite beer on tap... ;-) So, I hereby proffer Philosopher's Stone as an alternative to Ri Ra's. Jim On 6/14/06, William McKee wrote: > > Hello Mongers! > > Our next social meeting is tomorrow night, and I'll finally be in town > to join the group. Come out to talk about Perl, Chicago (for those going > to YAPC::NA), and other related subjects (such as MJD's new book "Higher > Order Perl"). > > There is not a venue yet, so I'll open the voting by proposing Ri Ra's > in uptown. There is inexpensive parking at 7th Street Station or you can > take your chances on the street. Anyone want to 2nd that or provide an > alternative? > > > See you at the meeting, > William > > -- > Knowmad Services Inc. > http://www.knowmad.com > _______________________________________________ > charlotte mailing list > charlotte at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/charlotte > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/charlotte/attachments/20060615/c83cc2cc/attachment.html From diona at studio12a.com Thu Jun 15 11:46:52 2006 From: diona at studio12a.com (Diona Kidd) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:46:52 -0400 Subject: [Charlotte.PM] Perl Mongers meeting -- Thurs, 6/15 @ 7pm In-Reply-To: References: <20060614222505.GA5951@knowmad.com> Message-ID: <37206691-8F0A-4AE4-9655-0C5147E941DD@studio12a.com> I've never been there before but I'm game to try it. On Jun 15, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Jim Herring wrote: > One near by alternative with FREE PARKING is the Philosopher's > Stone at 7th & Pecan, used to be Bayou Kitchen. > > They also have my favorite beer on tap... ;-) > > So, I hereby proffer Philosopher's Stone as an alternative to Ri Ra's. > > Jim > > On 6/14/06, William McKee wrote: > Hello Mongers! > > Our next social meeting is tomorrow night, and I'll finally be in town > to join the group. Come out to talk about Perl, Chicago (for those > going > to YAPC::NA), and other related subjects (such as MJD's new book > "Higher > Order Perl"). > > There is not a venue yet, so I'll open the voting by proposing Ri Ra's > in uptown. There is inexpensive parking at 7th Street Station or > you can > take your chances on the street. Anyone want to 2nd that or provide an > alternative? > > > See you at the meeting, > William > > -- > Knowmad Services Inc. > http://www.knowmad.com > _______________________________________________ > charlotte mailing list > charlotte at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/charlotte > > _______________________________________________ > charlotte mailing list > charlotte at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/charlotte -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/charlotte/attachments/20060615/25b07c81/attachment.html From diona at studio12a.com Thu Jun 15 14:57:23 2006 From: diona at studio12a.com (Diona Kidd) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:57:23 -0400 Subject: [Charlotte.PM] Perl Mongers meeting -- Thurs, 6/15 @ 7pm In-Reply-To: <37206691-8F0A-4AE4-9655-0C5147E941DD@studio12a.com> References: <20060614222505.GA5951@knowmad.com> <37206691-8F0A-4AE4-9655-0C5147E941DD@studio12a.com> Message-ID: <04286795-DFEF-4F39-8750-12F46DD61BE0@studio12a.com> Ok, I guess my other email didn't come through. I realize this is coming a little late. We're planning to be at Philosopher's Stone tonight at 7pm. Philosopher's Stone is at 1958 E 7th St., near starbuck's. See also: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=philosopher%27s +stone+charlotte,+nc&ie=UTF8&om=1 On Jun 15, 2006, at 2:46 PM, Diona Kidd wrote: > I've never been there before but I'm game to try it. > > > On Jun 15, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Jim Herring wrote: > >> One near by alternative with FREE PARKING is the Philosopher's >> Stone at 7th & Pecan, used to be Bayou Kitchen. >> >> They also have my favorite beer on tap... ;-) >> >> So, I hereby proffer Philosopher's Stone as an alternative to Ri >> Ra's. >> >> Jim >> >> On 6/14/06, William McKee wrote: >> Hello Mongers! >> >> Our next social meeting is tomorrow night, and I'll finally be in >> town >> to join the group. Come out to talk about Perl, Chicago (for those >> going >> to YAPC::NA), and other related subjects (such as MJD's new book >> "Higher >> Order Perl"). >> >> There is not a venue yet, so I'll open the voting by proposing Ri >> Ra's >> in uptown. There is inexpensive parking at 7th Street Station or >> you can >> take your chances on the street. Anyone want to 2nd that or >> provide an >> alternative? >> >> >> See you at the meeting, >> William >> >> -- >> Knowmad Services Inc. >> http://www.knowmad.com >> _______________________________________________ >> charlotte mailing list >> charlotte at pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/charlotte >> >> _______________________________________________ >> charlotte mailing list >> charlotte at pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/charlotte > > _______________________________________________ > charlotte mailing list > charlotte at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/charlotte -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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