From madcityzen at gmail.com Thu Jul 19 08:25:18 2012 From: madcityzen at gmail.com (Doug Bell) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:25:18 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Meeting: July 26 - The Dancer Web Framework Message-ID: <4520213599304783494@unknownmsgid> Hello again, Our next presentation is in 1 week, July 26th, at 6:30pm. Gaurang Kher from Bank of America will be giving a talk on the Dancer web framework. Meetup URL: http://www.meetup.com/Windy-City-Perl-mongers-Meetup/events/69071272/ Our meeting is at the usual place, 540 W Madison St. Someone will be at the Madison St entrance to let people in to the building, so if you were previously greeted by a locked door, this time will be different. Pizza and drink will be provided. Doug Bell madcityzen at gmail.com From madcityzen at gmail.com Thu Jul 26 11:45:21 2012 From: madcityzen at gmail.com (Doug Bell) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:45:21 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Meeting tonight and Special Announcement Message-ID: <8567748242702756409@unknownmsgid> Our meeting tonight will be a presentation on the Dancer web framework at 6:30 at 540 W Madison. I'd also like to talk about showing off what people are doing in Perl. RSVP at Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Windy-City-Perl-mongers-Meetup/events/69071272/ Chicago will also be hosting a symposium on the Perl Community by The Perl Foundation featuring Yaakov Sloman on August 7 at Fado's Irish Pub downtown. TPF is announcing some new community initiatives, so if you're interested in Perl's best feature (the community), want to enjoy some food and drink with Perl programmers, or just love symposia, RSVP on the Meetup. http://www.meetup.com/Windy-City-Perl-mongers-Meetup/events/74897272/ Doug Bell madcityzen at gmail.com From andy at petdance.com Mon Jul 30 11:50:17 2012 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:50:17 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Software Freedom Day Message-ID: (Forwarded from the LUNI list at http://groups.google.com/group/luni-announce-chicago?hl=en?hl=en) Hi everyone, FreeGeek Chicago, a community organization and hackerspace in Chicago (http://www.freegeekchicago.org/), will be hosting this year an event on September 15th celebrating the Software Freedom Day, a worldwide celebration of user freedom (http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/). We want to invite you and your community, LUG, family, and friends to participate and help us make it an awesome day. We are going to have the first organizational meeting on Saturday, August 4th, 2012 at 1:00PM in FreeGeek Chicago located at 3411 W. Diversey Ave., Basement, Chicago, IL 60647. The goals of this meeting are: - to define a plan for the celebration day (what exactly are we going to do) - to draw up a plan of next actions - to define and assign specific roles Who should come to this meeting? Those interested in: - helping to organize a Software Freedom Day in Chicago - giving a lightning talk - teaching a class about FLOSS, programming, gaming on Linux, etc - giving a demonstration/presentation on a distro or any other open source software - participating in a hacklab - participating in an open source LAN party Please, join us on Saturday, August 4th. Spanish speakers are also welcome. Hablantes de espa?ol est?n bienvenidos. Happy hacking! Cecilia