From fhew3 at cogeco.ca Wed May 4 20:01:36 2005 From: fhew3 at cogeco.ca (Fulko Hew) Date: Wed May 4 20:01:48 2005 Subject: [kw-pm] TPM April 2005 audio recordings Message-ID: <42798C90.1020905@cogeco.ca> The Audio Archive of the April 2005 meeting of the Toronto Perl Mongers group is now available online. This month there are two talks: "CPAN::Mini:Inject" by Shawn Sorichetti "Wrtie Once, Find Your Stuff Everywhere" by Dan Friedman The URL for the archives is: http://hew.ca/talks_audio/ And bonus... It now supports RSS! From daniel at coder.com Thu May 5 14:01:22 2005 From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen) Date: Thu May 5 14:06:36 2005 Subject: [kw-pm] [severely off-topic] astronomy? Message-ID: Anybody into astronomy and willing to write a book review? I just asked OReilly for a few books (they're sending the javascript/dom book for Simon, and a RSS/Atom innards book for me)... and our contact asked if we happened to have any astronomy buffs... -Daniel From rdice at pobox.com Thu May 5 14:25:20 2005 From: rdice at pobox.com (Richard Dice) Date: Thu May 5 14:31:58 2005 Subject: [kw-pm] [severely off-topic] astronomy? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1115328320.427a8f409f9a7@webmail.tht.net> Quoting "Daniel R. Allen" : > Anybody into astronomy and willing to write a book review? I just asked > OReilly for a few books (they're sending the javascript/dom book for > Simon, and a RSS/Atom innards book for me)... and our contact asked if we > happened to have any astronomy buffs... My undergrad degree was astronomy. Would that be helpful? Cheers, Richard ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ From da at coder.com Fri May 6 08:07:19 2005 From: da at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen) Date: Fri May 6 08:12:51 2005 Subject: [kw-pm] [severely off-topic] astronomy? In-Reply-To: <1115328320.427a8f409f9a7@webmail.tht.net> Message-ID: On Thu, 5 May 2005, Richard Dice wrote: > My undergrad degree was astronomy. Would that be helpful? A better question is whether you're interested in reviewing a brand new book on "Astronomy Hacks" in the next couple of months. I assume, after you've put YAPC firmly to bed. :) Helpful is a mere secondary, beyond "fun/interesting for you". -Daniel > > Cheers, > Richard From glim at mycybernet.net Tue May 10 20:18:00 2005 From: glim at mycybernet.net (Gerard Lim) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 23:18 -0400 Subject: [kw-pm] Yet Another Perl Conference final details Message-ID: Hi everyone... There have been some recent developments on the YAPC::NA front, and it has been suggested to us that a reminder might be helpful to some people, so here's a quick summary of the event. Summary ------- YAPC::NA 2005 (Yet Another Perl Conference, North America) in Toronto, Canada, Monday - Wednesday 27 - 29, June 2005 Home page: http://yapc.org/America/ Conference Location: http://89chestnut.com/ A facility of the University of Toronto Accommodations -------------- Normally registration information would come first, but accommodations are the bottleneck -- our main group reservation (at the conference hotel) expires at the end of the week, and as the conference approaches it will be extremely difficult to find a hotel anywhere in the city. Info on how to book at: http://yapc.org/America/accommodations-2005.shtml Registration ------------ Register now! :-) We are on track to break attendance records at YAPC::NA this year, and we could even sell out before the conference starts. The price for the full 3 days is USD$85. We keep it insanely low through many generous sponsorships and the all-volunteer organizational and speaking crews. Registration info: http://yapc.org/America/register-2005.shtml Direct registration link: http://donate.perlfoundation.org/index.pl?node=registrant%20info&conference_id=423 Conference Speaking Schedule ---------------------------- We've got an excellent selection of talks and speakers for Perl programmers of all levels, beginner through expert. We are fortunate enough to have presentations coming from some of the most recognizable names in Perl programming today, including Larry Wall, Chip Salzenberg, Dan Sugalski, Autrijus Tang and brian d foy. Summary -- http://yapc.org/America/schedule-2005/summary.html Day 1 -- http://yapc.org/America/schedule-2005/day1.html Day 2 -- http://yapc.org/America/schedule-2005/day2.html Day 3 -- http://yapc.org/America/schedule-2005/day3.html Lightning Talks --------------- These short (5 minutes each) talks, presented by the conference attendees, are a YAPC tradition. If you're interested please read more about them and sign up: http://www.justanotherperlhacker.org/lightning/ [ This message was sent by Gerard Lim on behalf of the YAPC::NA 2005 Conference organizing committee of the Toronto Perl Mongers. Thanks for your patience and support. ] From shuchit at gmail.com Fri May 13 06:34:39 2005 From: shuchit at gmail.com (Shuchit Velkar) Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 09:34:39 -0400 Subject: [kw-pm] YAPC organizer, Richard Dice, interviewed on Perl.com Message-ID: <878c8b0105051306344d7cb6d3@mail.gmail.com> Chromatic interviews Richard Dice http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/05/12/rdice.html Shuchit From zookrick at kw.pm.org Fri May 13 14:33:48 2005 From: zookrick at kw.pm.org (zookrick@kw.pm.org) Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 17:33:48 -0400 Subject: [kw-pm] Meeting Thursday, May 19, 2005 Message-ID: Kitchener-Waterloo Perl Mongers Meeting Thursday, May 19, 2005 Simon will be talking about [1]www.Asterisk.org and Perl (Discussion in the wiki at [2]MeetingTopics) See our [3]FAQ for more information, or email [4]info at kw.pm.org. References 1. http://www.Asterisk.org/ 2. http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?MeetingTopics 3. http://kw.pm.org/faq.html 4. mailto:info at kw.pm.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/kw-pm/attachments/20050513/540dc7f9/attachment.html From simon-kwpm at uc.org Mon May 16 09:17:27 2005 From: simon-kwpm at uc.org (simon-kwpm@uc.org) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 12:17:27 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [kw-pm] thusrday's talk Message-ID: Lloyd, are you talking this Thursday? From daniel at coder.com Mon May 16 10:23:27 2005 From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 13:23:27 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [kw-pm] thusrday's talk In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Heh. <> ...I've got good reason to believe Simon will in fact be talking about Asterisk, the open-source VoiP server. We'll also hear from Eric about hiring perl folks (and how to test their abilities); and I'll have a short report on YAPC planning. Once again on Thursday, pizza will be provided, and paid for by an anonymous perl benefactor; if you would like 'za, please add your name at: http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?PizzaList ...before 2pm on Thursday, if you would please. Thanks! Look forward to seeing you all, -Daniel From daniel at coder.com Mon May 16 10:35:36 2005 From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 13:35:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [kw-pm] YAPC volunteers? & registrations Message-ID: On the YAPC front: a year ago, we had a pile of people who signaled interest in volunteering on-site. I'd like to have a show of hands of who are still interested, so I can bring that back to Richard. Also there will be a planning meeting for volunteers this next Tuesday in Toronto, at the conference site. I hope to go, and I'd be happy to carpool. If you're sitting on the fence about registering: there may still be on-site dorm rooms; and I had the thought that if people are interested in just going down for a day and an evening, the price of registration ($85) would be well worth one day of talks and the dinner cruise on Lake Ontario (Tuesday). But there are also exciting things happening on Monday and Wednesday too, so check the schedule! http://yapc.org/America/schedule-2005/day1.html Another thing worth exploring is that your job might be willing to consider it training, and therefore send you with their blessing. My boss was happy to do so, so it can't hurt to ask. :) There. Now I don't need to report that at the meeting, and you know it three days earlier. :) -Daniel From rdice at pobox.com Mon May 16 10:52:41 2005 From: rdice at pobox.com (Richard Dice) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 13:52:41 -0400 Subject: [kw-pm] YAPC volunteers? & registrations In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1116265961.4288dde94205f@webmail.tht.net> Daniel, Thanks for stirring the pot regarding this. > On the YAPC front: a year ago, we had a pile of people who signaled > interest in volunteering on-site. I'd like to have a show of hands of who > are still interested, so I can bring that back to Richard. Also there > will be a planning meeting for volunteers this next Tuesday in Toronto, at > the conference site. I hope to go, and I'd be happy to carpool. The meeting on the conference site should be very good. :-) > If you're sitting on the fence about registering: there may still be > on-site dorm rooms; There remain in fact plenty of on-site rooms (89 Chestnut) as well as other rooms (e.g. cheaper university dorm rooms at Ryerson University, nearby). There was a bit of a scare/crunch regarding # of rooms available, but I spent a fair bit of time last week renegotiating with the rooms manager at 89 Chestnut and we now have a new block of rooms allocated to us. I haven't yet updated the YAPC::NA web site with this information, though. > and I had the thought that if people are interested in > just going down for a day and an evening, the price of registration ($85) That's USD$85, to be precise. > would be well worth one day of talks and the dinner cruise on Lake Ontario > (Tuesday). But there are also exciting things happening on Monday > and Wednesday too, so check the schedule! > http://yapc.org/America/schedule-2005/day1.html This is the Day 1 schedule. Click on "Day 2" and "Day 3" links at the top of the page to move between days. Also, clicking on the talk titles within the grid of talks brings you to a description of the talk. > Another thing worth exploring is that your job might be willing to > consider it training, and therefore send you with their blessing. My boss > was happy to do so, so it can't hurt to ask. :) Hear hear! Cheers, Richard ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ From fhew3 at cogeco.ca Mon May 16 17:30:20 2005 From: fhew3 at cogeco.ca (Fulko Hew) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 20:30:20 -0400 Subject: [kw-pm] [Fwd: announcing the YAPC Volunteer Sign-up List web site] Message-ID: <42893B1C.3040001@cogeco.ca> Mongers in Buffalo and KW are probably close enough to possible help out and volunteer during this years YAPC, so I'm sending this out so you can find out what jobs are available, and let you sign-up to help out... ------------------------------------ TPM now has a web based signup list to allow people to signup to existing identified tasks, that need to be performed _during_ the conference. It also allows you to add new and previously un-identified tasks to the lists to allow people to volunteer for them too. So far, we've identified a number of tasks that need to be performed during each time slot. Including on Sunday before the conference starts. I think the mechanism is sorta self explanatory... 1/ Pick a day, 2/ Pick a slot and see what tasks there are, and who's name if any are already beside it. 3/ Push the edit button. 4/ Fill in your name (AND press enter or edit so it updates the screen with any of your current assignments) 5/ Select (or de-select) the task you want to volunteer to do during that time slot. 6/ Push "Apply". If there are other tasks that need to be done during each slot, then there is a place at the botton of the 'edit' page that allows you to add another task. It will automatically be made available in every slot for people to sign-up to. You can also 'delete a job', but use it with care because it deletes the whole job and all assignments... NOT just the ones with your name. If you add the person name of N/A to a job in a slot, that job name will be made 'invisible' in that slot. Use it when you've added a new job, but want to make it 'not applicable' in a particular slot. For example: The job of 'Emcee' during lunch and break times has been assigned to N/A because we don't need that job/slot combination, and it would just clutter up the display. There is also a Wiki page (and reference at the top level) to point you to the web resource. Please update that Wiki page to describe the duties of each task, when you add a new task. The signup page is at: http://hew.ca/yapc.html (click on the various days at the top of the page to view each day.) and the Wiki is at: http://to.pm.org/cgi-bin/kwiki/index.pl?VolunteerSignUp From shuchit at gmail.com Tue May 17 05:20:16 2005 From: shuchit at gmail.com (Shuchit Velkar) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 08:20:16 -0400 Subject: [kw-pm] YAPC volunteers? & registrations In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <878c8b0105051705206b952558@mail.gmail.com> On 5/16/05, Daniel R. Allen wrote: > On the YAPC front: a year ago, we had a pile of people who signaled > interest in volunteering on-site. I'd like to have a show of hands of who > are still interested, so I can bring that back to Richard. Also there > will be a planning meeting for volunteers this next Tuesday in Toronto, at > the conference site. I hope to go, and I'd be happy to carpool. > I am interested in volunteering. Not sure about the Toronto on Tuesday, but we can discuss during our meeting on Thursday. Shuchit From daniel at coder.com Tue May 17 07:10:05 2005 From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:10:05 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [kw-pm] YAPC volunteers? & registrations In-Reply-To: <878c8b0105051705206b952558@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Cool. :) -Daniel On Tue, 17 May 2005, Shuchit Velkar wrote: > On 5/16/05, Daniel R. Allen wrote: > > On the YAPC front: a year ago, we had a pile of people who signaled > > interest in volunteering on-site. I'd like to have a show of hands of who > > are still interested, so I can bring that back to Richard. Also there > > will be a planning meeting for volunteers this next Tuesday in Toronto, at > > the conference site. I hope to go, and I'd be happy to carpool. > > > > > I am interested in volunteering. Not sure about the Toronto on > Tuesday, but we can > discuss during our meeting on Thursday. > > Shuchit > _______________________________________________ > kw-pm mailing list > kw-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kw-pm > From simon-kwpm at uc.org Thu May 19 22:08:29 2005 From: simon-kwpm at uc.org (simon-kwpm@uc.org) Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 01:08:29 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [kw-pm] asterisk/perl follow up stuff Message-ID: Asterisk - http://www.asterisk.org Community docs - http://www.voip-info.org Asterisk::AGI - http://asterisk.gnuinter.net/ The Ontario Asterisk/VoIP group - http://uc.org/asterisk The Ontario Astiersk/VoIP mailing list - asterisk-subscribe at uc.org Hardware - http://www.voipdepot.ca http://www.voipsupply.com My SIP VoIP Provider - http://www.unlimitel.ca Cheers, Simon