From mswier at yahoo.com Sat Jun 4 16:14:05 2005 From: mswier at yahoo.com (Mike Swier) Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 16:14:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Chicago-announce] NWCLUG's next meeting 6/7/05 Message-ID: <20050604231405.35611.qmail@web40908.mail.yahoo.com> Hi, NWCLUG's next meeting will be at Harper College in A238 at 7pm on Tuesday 6/7/05. for (a bit) more info see http://nwclug.harpercollege.edu/httpd/html/meetings.html#nextmtg mikie From andy at petdance.com Tue Jun 7 07:26:19 2005 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 09:26:19 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-announce] "Preventing Crisis: Project estimation and tracking that works" Message-ID: <20050607142619.GA20455@petdance.com> If anyone is interested in seeing my "Preventing Crisis" talk that I gave at last Chicago.PM, and will be giving out at OSCON: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2005/view/e_sess/6826 please come to the NW Chicago Linux User Group meeting tonight at 7pm. http://nwclug.harpercollege.edu/httpd/html/meetings.html xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance From vosedj at yahoo.com Mon Jun 13 10:14:36 2005 From: vosedj at yahoo.com (Deborah Vose) Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:14:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Chicago-announce] PerlSIG June 14th Message-ID: <20050613171437.67597.qmail@web53405.mail.yahoo.com> Mambo: CMS made easy Ricardo Lopez Tuesday, June 14th, 2005, 7:00-9:00pm Illinois Institute of Technology, Rice Campus, Wheaton, IL, Room 103 Abstract -------- What is mambo... Mambo is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Mambo is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. Discussion points: * Installation and Initial Configuration * Site Templates * Content Management * Components * Modules * Mambots Speaker Bio ----------- Ricardo Lopez has been a professional programmer for seven years and programming enthusiast for 15 years. He has worked on very different types of projects including radio engineering, educational statistics, supply chain management and commercial web-based applications. Currently he is part of a team building a mambo based portal for FT Interactive Data. Getting There ------------- This meeting of the UniForum Chicago PerlSIG will be from 7:00 pm to 9:00 PM on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at the Illinois Institute of Technology Rice campus. The address of the meeting facility is: IIT's Rice Campus Room 103 201 East Loop Road, Wheaton, Illinois 60187 Take I-88 to the Naperville Road exit. Go North on Naperville Road to Butterfield/Rt. 56. Turn right on Butterfield and proceed East to the next stoplight East (East Loop Road). Turn north onto East Loop Road (Grady's/Cozymel's Restaurants and Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corners); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road. Park in the student parking lot behind the building. Room 103 is the first room inside the north entrance. More detailed directions and maps are available at: http://www.rice.iit.edu/directions.html http://www.rice.iit.edu/floorplan.html All UniForum Chicago Perl SIG meetings are open to the public free of charge. For additional information visit the UniForum Chicago web site at: http://www.uniforum.chi.il.us/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/chicago-announce/attachments/20050613/be9a2dc9/attachment.html From glim at mycybernet.net Thu Jun 16 21:50:00 2005 From: glim at mycybernet.net (Gerard Lim) Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:50 -0400 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Last-minute reminder -- YAPC::NA 2005 Message-ID: Here's a last reminder about Yet Another Perl Conference, North America (YAPC::NA 2005) http://yapc.org/America In case anyone out there has been sitting on the fence or has been meaning to register but has put it on the backburner until now, here is a final information package. Dates: Mon - Wed June 27 - 29, 2005 (11 days from now!) Location: 89 Chestnut Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Accommodations ============== Due to recent renegotiations with the conference facility and hotel, 89 Chestnut, there are still a few rooms left. For details on accommodations go to: http://www.yapc.org/America/accommodations-2005.shtml For quick and easy booking: 89 Chestnut Phone: +1-416-977-0707 Conference booking code: perl0626 The base rate is approx. CAD$80/night, which is *great* for downtown Toronto. Add in taxes and in-room high speed internet and it's up to about CAD$95/night. Book yourself to check-in on Sunday the 26th and check-out on the morning of Wednesday the 29th. Conference Registration ======================= Registration is easy and cheap - only USD$85 - see http://yapc.org/America/register-2005.shtml for details or register directly online at http://donate.perlfoundation.org/index.pl?node=registrant%20info&conference_id=423 The schedule is awesome - http://yapc.org/America/schedule-2005/day1.html >From here, click on the "Day 2" and "Day 3" spots near the top to go from page to page. Click on a talk name to get details regarding the talk. Speakers include Larry Wall, Allison Randal, Autrijus Tang, Brian Ingerson, Andy Lester, chromatic, brian d foy, Chip Salzenberg & Dan Sugalski... and many more! [ This message was sent by Gerard Lim on behalf of the YAPC::NA 2005 Conference organizing committee of the Toronto Perl Mongers. Thanks for your patience and support. ]