From darrell at golliher.net Fri Jan 7 14:46:28 2005 From: darrell at golliher.net (Darrell Golliher) Date: Fri Jan 7 14:46:45 2005 Subject: [Classiccity-pm] Atlanta-pm starting meeings again starting Jan. 11th Message-ID: <20050107204627.GE13002@golliher.net> FYI, I'll be going, but will already be in Atlanta or else I'd offer to drive a carpool. Maybe I'll see some of you there. -Darrell ----- Forwarded message from Stephen Adkins ----- Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 17:08:06 +0000 From: Stephen Adkins Organization: OfficeVision.com X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 To: atlanta-pm@mail.pm.org Subject: [Atlanta-pm] Reminder: Tue Jan 11, 6pm - Upcoming Atlanta.pm Meeting Hi, [NOTE: I tried to send this reminder yesterday morning, but I think it didn't get through. Please excuse me if you have received this twice.] This is a reminder about the upcoming meeting of Atlanta.pm. Here are the details (as described in a Dec 20 email). What: Meeting of Atlanta.pm (Atlanta PerlMongers) When: Tue Jan 11, 6:00pm - 7:30pm Where: Hands on Network (near Georgia Tech) 600 Means St., Atlanta, GA 30318 [NOTE: If you are interested in helping organize Atlanta.pm but will not be able to make this meeting, send me a message.] Program 6:00-6:15pm Introductions 6:15-6:30pm Rudy Lippan - DBD::mysql 3.0 (upcoming release) 6:30-6:45pm Les Howard - Secure Coding with Perl 6:45-7:00pm Stephen Adkins - App::Options - writing flexible and configurable perl utilities with ease 7:00-7:15pm TBD 7:15-7:30pm Discussion about * upcoming meetings, * desired future topics, and * vision for the future of Atlanta.pm * (any other administration?) I think it would be good for every presenter to have some kind of handout, even a quick, one-page cheat sheet on the concepts you are presenting. FUTURE MEETINGS As far as future meetings, the feedback I got was that the following profile for a meeting worked best with people. * Days of Week: Tuesday or Thursday * Duration: 1.5 to 2 hours * Start Time: Between 6:00pm and 8:00pm My guess would be that we would settle in to the second Tuesday of the month, from 6:30pm to 8:15pm. We'll discuss this and vote on it as the last item of the meeting as indicated above. FUTURE TOPICS Please be thinking about future topics. (Anyone who wants to volunteer to take the fourth topic, currently labeled "TBD", please contact me.) Some topics that are very interesting that I can think of would be: * Perl Date/Time Handling * Perl Exception Handling (examples from DBI) * Perl Database/Persistence Layers * Perl Template Libraries * Perl Web Application Frameworks * Perl XML Modules * Perl and Apache (mod_perl) * Perl on Windows and in MS IIS (via ISAPI) * CPAN and Publishing High "Kwalitee" Modules on CPAN * Professional Perl Development Success Stories * Perl Reporting via Text, CSV, PDF, Excel * Perl Web Page Scraping * Wrapping C Libraries for Perl with XS (and SWIG?) * Perl Regression Testing * Perl Debugging * Perl Benchmarking * Perl Documentation * The P5EE Project (Perl 5 Enterprise Environment) If no one volunteers to take the fourth slot, I will choose one of these and have a round table discussion (brief presentation followed by discussion of everyone's experiences with the various options). VISION FOR THE FUTURE If anyone is interested, we can end the meeting talking about people's ideas about the future of Atlanta.pm. I personally would like to see it become a group that accomplishes two purposes (in addition to the things we may all learn at the meetings). 1. Enhance professional development through networking with other perl professionals in the Atlanta area. 2. Facilitate high quality Free/Open-Source software projects (i.e. modules that can be submitted to CPAN) Thanks, Stephen Adkins -- Stephen Adkins OfficeVision.com _______________________________________________ Atlanta-pm mailing list Atlanta-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/atlanta-pm ----- End forwarded message ----- From glim at mycybernet.net Mon Jan 24 18:05:00 2005 From: glim at mycybernet.net (glim@mycybernet.net) Date: Mon Jan 24 18:04:15 2005 Subject: [Classiccity-pm] Yet Another Perl Conference North America 2005 announces call-for-papers Message-ID: YAPC::NA 2005 (Yet Another Perl Conference, North America) has just released its call-for-papers; potential and aspiring speakers can submit a presentation proposal via: http://yapc.org/America/cfp-2005.shtml The dates of the conference are Monday - Wednesday 27-29 June 2005. The location will be in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Note that a different date block was previously announced, but has been moved to accomodate venue availability.) The close of the call-for-papers is April 18, 2005 at 11:59 pm. If you have any questions regarding the call-for-papers or speaking at YAPC::NA 2005 please email na-author@yapc.org We would love to hear from potential sponsors. Please contact the organizers at na-sponsor@yapc.org to learn about the benefits of sponsorship. Other information regarding the conference (e.g. venue, registration specifics) will be announced soon. We look forward to your submissions and a great conference!