LPM: Joseph Beth and future meetings

John Gibson jgibson at lexmark.com
Wed Feb 14 10:20:17 CST 2001


If we actually start the lunch time meetings. I would 
like to hear more about the games with fork()

-John

 On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Mik Firestone wrote:
 
> As the speaker at the first meeting at the Olive Garden, it was difficult to
> speak loud enough to be heard and not be shouting perl all over the
> restaurant.  And I agree, Jo-Beth's new arrangements suck.  I might suggest
> getting in touch with Lexington City Brewery - I know they have a seperate
> room you can reserve.  I have no idea what that would cost.  Anybody else know
> of a reasonable restaurant where we could get a seperate room?
>
> I am willing to speak on any one of the following topics:
>     1. SNMP ( simple network management protocol) - this will be a long and
>        complex topic.
>     2. Notify - a module I have created to provide a uniform way of printing
>        debug, warning, error, usage and information messages.  This could be
>        interesting because it is also a fair example of how to write one's own
>        import() routine.
>     3. I might be up to an Intro to Object Oriented perl.  Maybe.
>     4. Strange games you play with fork() and signals - or - how to write your
>        own parallel MP3 ripper :)  This would be mostly for the UNIX crowd - I
>        know Win32 perl has a fork, but I do not know how stable it is.
> Mik
>
> > On 21:00, 02/13/01, Rich Bowen said:
> > > When we met at Joseph Beth last year (or was it two years ago?) there
> > > was a $50 minimum food charge. Since we spent slightly over $50 eating
> > > lunch, there was no charge for the facility. However, since that time,
> > > they've increased that to a $150 minimum food charge, and a $50 room fee
> > > I<in addition> to the food. This puts this facility out of our price
> > > range, unless someone's company wants to sponsor the event.
> > >
> > > In light of this, I expect that we want to find another place. This
> > > sucks, considering that we had a really great time and location worked
> > > out, and now we have to work it out again. I recommend The Olive Garden.
> > > We met there once before, and it worked out very nicely. If nobody has
> > > any objections to this, perhaps someone can call there and find a Friday
> > > next month that we could have the semi-private area for our meeting. I
> > > can bring an easel and paper pad, but of someone could borrow a
> > > LCD-projector for that time, that would be even better.
> > >
> > > We don't have a speaker or a topic worked out yet, but I'd really like
> > > to have that worked out much further in advance this time, so that we
> > > can do the poster thing, and perhaps get some more people to come out.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Rich Bowen <rbowen at rcbowen.com>
> > > Come see me at Apachecon! -- http://www.apachecon.com/
> > --
> > Mik Firestone fireston at lexmark.com
> > When I become an Evil Overlord:
> > I will not interrogate my enemies in the inner sanctum-a small hotel well
> > outside my borders will work just as well.
> >
> >
> 
> 



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