From william at knowmad.com  Wed Mar  4 05:57:25 2009
From: william at knowmad.com (William McKee)
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:57:25 +0000
Subject: [Charlotte.PM] [Fwd: [pm_groups] Call for Mentors - Google Summer
	of Code]
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-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing at gmail.com>
> To: pm_groups at pm.org
> Cc: Jonathan Leto <jaleto at gmail.com>
> Subject: [pm_groups] Call for Mentors - Google Summer of Code
> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 22:10:58 -0800
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Please forward this to your local perl mongers lists.
> 
> Jonathan has a signup form ready for those who would like to offer their 
> availability to mentor for The Perl Foundation in this year's Google 
> Summer of Code.
> 
>   http://bit.ly/Hht5E
> 
> For more information, please see the following link or mail Jonathan.
> 
> http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/2009/03/gsoc-2009-mentor-signup-form-go.html
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
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From william at knowmad.com  Fri Mar  6 13:06:22 2009
From: william at knowmad.com (William McKee)
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:06:22 -0500
Subject: [Charlotte.PM] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, March 5]
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