From andy at petdance.com  Thu May  3 07:59:18 2007
From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester)
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 09:59:18 -0500
Subject: [Chicago-announce] May Chicago.PM meetings: Introduction to Unicode
Message-ID: <6DD63630-5266-4F11-B9D7-A88217747C38@petdance.com>

http://rakudo.org/chicago-pm/index.cgi?introduction_to_unicode

Languages other than English are becoming more common in the U.S. The  
Internet opens up communication channels to the entire world. The  
challenge is to communicate with other countries and other cultures.  
The Unicode standard provides a way to communicate in the printed  
characters of the worlds many languages. Clyde Forrester will attempt  
to explain what Unicode is, its history, what it is used for, why it  
is used, and how to use it.

Clyde's talk will only take the first hour at most, so afterwards at  
the May 8th meeting, we may work on sharing more cool tricks from  
perl101.org, and adding new ones to the site. This is a great way for  
Chicago.PM as a group to help give back to the Perl community.

You'll have two opportunities to hear it:

     * May 8th, 2007, 7pm at Illinois Institute of Technology, Rice  
Campus in Wheaton -- No RSVP required
     * May 22nd, 2007, 7pm at Performics in the city -- RSVP required  
by noon to the email address "jmcadams" at the site "performics.com",  
or add your name to this page: http://rakudo.org/chicago-pm/index.cgi? 
introduction_to_unicode

As with all Chicago Perl Mongers meetings, everyone is welcome,  
whether or not you consider yourself a member. We look forward to  
seeing you there!

xoxo,
Andy

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From andy at petdance.com  Thu May 24 08:41:45 2007
From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 10:41:45 -0500
Subject: [Chicago-announce] June 12, Perl Program Repair Shop
Message-ID: <7650ABDB-29CF-4B84-8DE0-EB83C9200C26@petdance.com>

Perl Program Repair Shop

Illinois Institute of Technology, Rice Campus, Wheaton, IL
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)

Mark-Jason Dominus visited Chicago.PM back in 2006, and his "Red  
Flags and Program Repair Shop" talk was wonderful. http:// 
perl.plover.com/flagbook/yak/Chi/slide001.html

In June, Chicago Perl Mongers will be doing the same thing, albeit  
without Mark's help. We'll take real code from users and find ways to  
improve it.  I (Andy) will take the code and find what I suggest as  
ways to improve it, and present those at the meeting.  As a group, we  
can also discuss other ways that things could be improved.

If you'd like to submit code you've written for public scrutiny and  
improvement, email it to andy at petdance.com, the larger the better.  
Andy will pull out likely candidates for scrutiny and we'll discuss  
them as a group at the meeting.

I need your code submissions by June 5th, so please get them in now,  
before it's too late.

Thanks!
Andy



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