From tobert at gmail.com Wed Jan 3 14:57:23 2007 From: tobert at gmail.com (Al Tobey) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:57:23 -0500 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-announce] GR.pm: Lightning Talk submissions for January 26 meeting Message-ID: <5ac7acb10701031457k1e7dbc3eyb2b60e6711924751@mail.gmail.com> Submissions will be accepted for the January 26 meeting starting now and ending on Monday the 15th. Of course, the topic is anything directly related to perl. Have a favorite CPAN module? How about a neat hack you found? How about some problem you solved with perl that was neat-o? If you don't know what a lightning talk is, here are some links: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/07/30/lightningtalk.html http://www.justanotherperlhacker.org/lightning/ http://perl.plover.com/lightning-talks.html Please submit your topic and a couple sentences about what you'd cover. You don't even have to provide slides if you don't want/need them. A talk can be anywhere from 1 minute (better be good ;) to 10 minutes. Please specify your intended length. I will hold you to it. I only plan on having 45 minutes of talk though, since we're also doing elections that day. Send submissions to me or the list: tobert at gmail.com grand-rapids-pm-list at pm.org They will be chosen by me and a committee of my choosing ;) All decisions are semi-final. Did I mention elections are this month? Thanks, -Al Tobey From tobert at gmail.com Tue Jan 23 14:08:08 2007 From: tobert at gmail.com (Al Tobey) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:08:08 -0500 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-announce] Perl Mongers THIS Friday Message-ID: <5ac7acb10701231408y5cd54cbbk89a36e4486caea20@mail.gmail.com> The Grand Rapids Perl Mongers will be meeting this Friday January 26 at 11:30am. The venue is the same as usual, the Priority Health Conference Center @ 3111 Leonard St. NE Grand Rapids, MI. We will be entertained by lightning talks and free pizza. We are also holding elections for all offices and discussing the plans for 2007. Please RSVP if you'd like to have some pizza so I can buy enough. So far, the lightning talks scheduled are: Chuck Dreyer on the Perl Debugger Ed Eddington on an XMLHTTPRequest implementation Al Tobey on handy shell tricks if I don't get more volunteers We still need 2 or 3 more talks. You don't even have to make slides or anything. You don't have to talk about perl either. The only requirement is that you have a topic and email me before Thursday evening so I can do the lineup. http://grand-rapids.pm.org/ http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3111+Leonard+St+NE,+Grand+Rapids,+MI+49525+(Priority%20Health%20Conference%20Center)&spn=0.016144,0.039312&hl=en See you there! -Al Tobey From tobert at gmail.com Thu Jan 25 14:33:32 2007 From: tobert at gmail.com (Al Tobey) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:33:32 -0500 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-announce] ROOM/BUILDING CHANGE for Grand Rapids Perl Mongers Message-ID: <5ac7acb10701251433r2ba322d8sdea825a0c5342233@mail.gmail.com> I messed up and assumed we had rooms booked all through 2007 for Perl Mongers. We didn't. Now that I've done some booking, one of the days I can't get is this month's meeting. There are a few more days that we'll discuss at the meeting. I don't have final confirmation, but the meeting is very likely going to be in Computer Lab 3 of building 1239 on the Priority Health Campus. Go in the front door and tell the receptionist you're there for Perl Mongers. >From the receptionist, go down the stairs or take the elevator down 1 floor. Turn left at the junction and go down until you see Computer Lab 3. Look for signs, because if we change the room again, they'll be the source of truth. 1239 East Beltline NE Grand Rapids MI 49525 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=1239+E+Beltline+NE+49525&ie=UTF8&z=15&om=1&iwloc=addr Call me at (616) 291-0806 if you need help finding the building/room or whatever. By the way, I'm only buying 3 large pizzas based on the current RSVP count. -Al