From mswier at yahoo.com Sat Jul 3 09:13:28 2010 From: mswier at yahoo.com (Mike Swier) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 09:13:28 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Chicago-announce] NWCLUG's next meeting 7/6/10 Message-ID: <115395.9161.qm@web57002.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Hi, NWCLUG's next meeting will be at Harper College in A238 at 7pm on Tuesday 7/6/10. We will have a quick review of FOG. For (a bit) more info see http://nwclug.org/meetings.html#nextmtg mikie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andy at petdance.com Mon Jul 26 10:02:20 2010 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:02:20 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Chicago Barcamp Aug 21-22, 2010 Message-ID: <4FFE77A5-C31F-4CCB-BE5D-44D59DFE0647@petdance.com> What: The best technology unconference in Chicago http://barcampchicago.com/ When: Saturday August 21st @ 10am - Sunday August 22nd 7pm Where: 215 W. Ohio St. Chicago IL 60654 http://tinyurl.com/barcampchi2010 This August, Chicago will host its 5th annual BARcamp Conference. Come to BARcamp Chicago 2010 to learn from and mingle with Chicago's most talented and innovative computer and technology enthusiasts in an impromptu, informal setting. BARcamp Chicago is an un-conference, meaning event participants are the people who run the event, give the presentations and host the various activities throughout the weekend. Here is what we have lined up for you: - Many talks and demos concerning a wide range of technology topics - Socialize with Chicago's top technology enthusiasts - A drunken panel discussion - Geeky/technology related movies that run all night - Free food and drink - BARcompany - Start a business over the weekend - Random other activities Guests from a multitude of backgrounds will be in attendance, including programmers, developers, engineers, tech students, open-source advocates, entrepreneurs and business professionals. Participants are encouraged to share, learn and break off into smaller focus groups, brainstorm and collaborate on any project or idea. Professional networking is highly recommended. Words really cannot describe this event! Take a look at the videos and pictures linked from our website: http://barcampchicago.com/ BARcompany Returning to BARcamp this year is BARcompany, which challenges small groups of participants to come up with an idea and create a company around it in about a day's time. The resulting companies and ideas are presented at the end of the weekend to the conference attendees and to a panel of judges made up of local, influential people in the technology community. The team who organizes the best company has a chance to win prizes which may include server hosting for the developed web application, co-working space and possibly even some start up capital. More Information The event is expected to draw several hundred attendees and is free and open to the public. The majority of talks and activities will be between the hours of 10 AM and 7 PM each day. Complimentary food and beverages will be provided as well as activities on Saturday night through Sunday morning. -- Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.theworkinggeek.com => AIM:petdance From andy at petdance.com Sat Jul 31 13:45:14 2010 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:45:14 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Rakudo Star, a release of Perl 6 for early adopters, is now available Message-ID: <1E3B5C83-A436-4253-96A5-C9AB088A6F47@petdance.com> http://perlbuzz.com/2010/07/rakudo-star-for-early-adopters-of-perl-6-is-now-available.html On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the July 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the July 2010 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads. Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification that aren't implemented yet. But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications and exploring a great new language. These "Star" releases are intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it. In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language ("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as "Rakudo Perl". "Rakudo Star" is a distribution that includes release #31 of the Rakudo Perl 6 "compiler, version 2.6.0 of the Parrot Virtual Machine, and various modules, documentation, and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. We plan to make Rakudo Star releases on a monthly schedule, with occasional special releases in response to important bugfixes or changes. Some of the many cool Perl 6 features that are available in this release of Rakudo Star: ? Perl 6 grammars and regexes ? formal parameter lists and signatures ? metaoperators ? gradual typing ? a powerful object model, including roles and classes ? lazy list evaluation ? multiple dispatch ? smart matching ? junctions and autothreading ? operator overloading (limited forms for now) ? introspection ? currying ? a rich library of builtin operators, functions, and types ? an interactive read-evaluation-print loop ? Unicode at the codepoint level ? resumable exceptions There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming releases. Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a "Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release. In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are many that we've missed. Bug reports about missing and broken features are welcomed. See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources. Rakudo Star also contains a draft of a Perl 6 book -- see in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the perl6-compiler at perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed in response to important bug fixes or improvements. The next planned release of Rakudo Star will be on August 24, 2010. -- Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.theworkinggeek.com => AIM:petdance