From acervant at sdsio-mail.jpl.nasa.gov Fri Oct 7 09:47:59 2005 From: acervant at sdsio-mail.jpl.nasa.gov (Alex Cervantes) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:47:59 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Hi Everyone Message-ID: <200510071647.j97GlxFw067536@seastar.jpl.nasa.gov> Hi Everyone, I just signed up on this list. I am a new perl developer(everyone at my job seems to LOVE perl). From my experience so far with perl, everything has been great. Looking forward to joining in with conversations with other perl mongers ;-) Cheers, Alex -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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CHRISTIAN AVERY BRYANT PERL PROGRAMMER Phone: +1 (818) 983-6470 Web: www.christianaverybryant.net From metaperl at gmail.com Fri Oct 7 14:02:35 2005 From: metaperl at gmail.com (Terrence Brannon) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 14:02:35 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Alternatives to Blosxom in Perl/CGI In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 10/7/05, software at christianaverybryant.net wrote: > On that note, any pointer to other single script blogs and/or wiki-clones would be > appreciated. perldesignpatterns.com runs on TinyWiki, written in under 100 lines: http://perldesignpatterns.com/?TinyWikiInstall > > Much thanks. Sure, there are much wider bases of Perl users to ask such questions of on perlmonks.org or comp.lang.perl.moderated. From RNathan at baxglobal.com Fri Oct 14 09:47:55 2005 From: RNathan at baxglobal.com (Ranga Nathan) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:47:55 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Hi Everyone In-Reply-To: <200510071647.j97GlxFw067536@seastar.jpl.nasa.gov> Message-ID: Welcome Alex. When I started with Perl, I began to learn a whole lot of new technologies. The more mongers, the merrier! __________________________________________ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California Tel: 714-442-7591 Fax: 714-442-2840 "Alex Cervantes" Sent by: losangeles-pm-bounces+rnathan=baxglobal.com at pm.org 10/07/2005 09:47 AM To cc Subject [LA.pm] Hi Everyone Hi Everyone, I just signed up on this list. I am a new perl developer(everyone at my job seems to LOVE perl). From my experience so far with perl, everything has been great. Looking forward to joining in with conversations with other perl mongers ;-) Cheers, Alex_______________________________________________ Losangeles-pm mailing list Losangeles-pm at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/losangeles-pm/attachments/20051014/adb88850/attachment.html From rspier at pobox.com Sat Oct 22 21:25:51 2005 From: rspier at pobox.com (Robert Spier) Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 21:25:51 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet Message-ID: A few weeks ago I had a neat idea - A Los Angeles Geek Banquet. General idea: Rent a restaurant. Charge at cost to attend. Setup a wireless network. Setup power strips. Get a lot of LA area geeks together in one room with food. Force ("encourage") people to sit with people they don't know. Networking ensues. Worst case, people have some hopefully good food. Best case, people loose and fragmented LA technology market get to know each other a little better. ANYWAY- I don't have time to organize this. If anyone else likes the idea, please run with it. I know there are several companies who might be interested in sponsoring it as a recruiting event... but that wasn't my primary goal. -R (p.s. expect a West-Side LAPM event sometime in the next few weeks) From jamespitts at yahoo.com Mon Oct 24 00:15:45 2005 From: jamespitts at yahoo.com (James Pitts) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20051024071545.39485.qmail@web50408.mail.yahoo.com> Robert, this is a great idea. The LA tech scene does lack cohesion, even if cohesion is just having a time and a place to get together and party. I'd definitely like to help out with something like this. I'll throw a few more ideas into the mix: - some demos of dangerous technology (although not going as far as to invite the Survival Research Labs) - invite venture capitalists who would host a private round of 5-minute startup pitches - awards ceremony for cool software projects at USC, UCLA, Cal Tech, etc - cook up an important-sounding award for a geek celeb who just might show up :) - James --- Robert Spier wrote: > ANYWAY- > > I don't have time to organize this. > > If anyone else likes the idea, please run with it. I know there > are several companies who might be interested in sponsoring it as > a recruiting event... but that wasn't my primary goal. > > -R __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com From acervant at sdsio-mail.jpl.nasa.gov Mon Oct 24 08:58:38 2005 From: acervant at sdsio-mail.jpl.nasa.gov (Alex Cervantes) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:58:38 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Losangeles-pm Digest, Vol 28, Issue 4 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <200510241558.j9OFwckM575982@seastar.jpl.nasa.gov> I'm new to this group, but this sounds like a GREAT idea to me!! Since I'm new to the group, I haven't interacted with too many people. This sounds like fun. Alex -----Original Message----- From: losangeles-pm-bounces at pm.org [mailto:losangeles-pm-bounces at pm.org] On Behalf Of losangeles-pm-request at pm.org Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 12:00 PM To: losangeles-pm at pm.org Subject: Losangeles-pm Digest, Vol 28, Issue 4 Send Losangeles-pm mailing list submissions to losangeles-pm at pm.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to losangeles-pm-request at pm.org You can reach the person managing the list at losangeles-pm-owner at pm.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Losangeles-pm digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Geek Banquet (Robert Spier) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 21:25:51 -0700 From: Robert Spier Subject: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet To: "Los Angeles Perl Mongers" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII A few weeks ago I had a neat idea - A Los Angeles Geek Banquet. General idea: Rent a restaurant. Charge at cost to attend. Setup a wireless network. Setup power strips. Get a lot of LA area geeks together in one room with food. Force ("encourage") people to sit with people they don't know. Networking ensues. Worst case, people have some hopefully good food. Best case, people loose and fragmented LA technology market get to know each other a little better. ANYWAY- I don't have time to organize this. If anyone else likes the idea, please run with it. I know there are several companies who might be interested in sponsoring it as a recruiting event... but that wasn't my primary goal. -R (p.s. expect a West-Side LAPM event sometime in the next few weeks) ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Losangeles-pm mailing list Losangeles-pm at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm End of Losangeles-pm Digest, Vol 28, Issue 4 ******************************************** From Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com Mon Oct 24 10:15:13 2005 From: Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com (Todd Cranston-Cuebas) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:15:13 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet Message-ID: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640A6B3496@pasmail3.office.tmcs> OK, I'm one of those corporations. I think we'd definitely like to talk about ways we can help out with such an event. We'd like to do more for the local perl community. Overall, I like the idea. Todd Ticketmaster > -----Original Message----- > From: losangeles-pm-bounces at pm.org > [mailto:losangeles-pm-bounces at pm.org] On Behalf Of James Pitts > Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 12:16 AM > To: Robert Spier; Los Angeles Perl Mongers > Subject: Re: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet > > Robert, this is a great idea. The LA tech scene does lack > cohesion, even if cohesion is just having a time and a place > to get together and party. I'd definitely like to help out > with something like this. > > I'll throw a few more ideas into the mix: > > - some demos of dangerous technology (although not going as > far as to invite the Survival Research Labs) > - invite venture capitalists who would host a private round > of 5-minute startup pitches > - awards ceremony for cool software projects at USC, UCLA, > Cal Tech, etc > - cook up an important-sounding award for a geek celeb who > just might show up :) > > - James > > --- Robert Spier wrote: > > > ANYWAY- > > > > I don't have time to organize this. > > > > If anyone else likes the idea, please run with it. I know there > > are several companies who might be interested in > sponsoring it as > > a recruiting event... but that wasn't my primary goal. > > > > -R > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ > Losangeles-pm mailing list > Losangeles-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm > From samy at samy.pl Mon Oct 24 10:21:57 2005 From: samy at samy.pl (Samy Kamkar) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:21:57 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet In-Reply-To: <20051024071545.39485.qmail@web50408.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20051024071545.39485.qmail@web50408.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <435D1835.2080608@samy.pl> Now what exactly defines a "geek celeb"? James Pitts wrote: >Robert, this is a great idea. The LA tech scene does lack cohesion, >even if cohesion is just having a time and a place to get together and >party. I'd definitely like to help out with something like this. > >I'll throw a few more ideas into the mix: > >- some demos of dangerous technology (although not going as far as to >invite the Survival Research Labs) >- invite venture capitalists who would host a private round of 5-minute >startup pitches >- awards ceremony for cool software projects at USC, UCLA, Cal Tech, >etc >- cook up an important-sounding award for a geek celeb who just might >show up :) > >- James > >--- Robert Spier wrote: > > > >>ANYWAY- >> >> I don't have time to organize this. >> >> If anyone else likes the idea, please run with it. I know there >> are several companies who might be interested in sponsoring it as >> a recruiting event... but that wasn't my primary goal. >> >>-R >> >> > > > > > > >__________________________________ >Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 >http://mail.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >Losangeles-pm mailing list >Losangeles-pm at pm.org >http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm > > From conrad at fringehead.org Mon Oct 24 14:15:07 2005 From: conrad at fringehead.org (Conrad Heiney) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:15:07 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet In-Reply-To: <435D1835.2080608@samy.pl> References: <20051024071545.39485.qmail@web50408.mail.yahoo.com> <435D1835.2080608@samy.pl> Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Two words: Wil Wheaton. On Oct 24, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Samy Kamkar wrote: > Now what exactly defines a "geek celeb"? > - --------------------------------------------- Conrad Heiney conrad at fringehead.org The unexamined shirt is not worth wearing. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDXU7fyVm6VkRf/dQRAuSFAJ0Vwa73O8GcwFjJxj+NH6LWAeQF6QCgrHK7 ndxqIfJf+yU+3u40u9JdXpA= =hJd2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From jamespitts at yahoo.com Mon Oct 24 15:03:35 2005 From: jamespitts at yahoo.com (James Pitts) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:03:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20051024220336.63523.qmail@web50414.mail.yahoo.com> Wil Wheaton definitely qualifies. Lacking a role on a TV series or a major open source project, a geek celeb would have to have made at least a million friends on myspace ;) One person who would be cool to have as a guest of honor is Mary Rajskub (who plays the role of Chloe O'Brian on 24). She's the best television geek yet. Any leads? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lynn_Rajskub - James --- Conrad Heiney wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Two words: Wil Wheaton. > > On Oct 24, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Samy Kamkar wrote: > > > Now what exactly defines a "geek celeb"? > > __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com From ofer at netapt.com Mon Oct 24 15:05:48 2005 From: ofer at netapt.com (Ofer Nave) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:05:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet In-Reply-To: <20051024220336.63523.qmail@web50414.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I think geek celeb means more people who are famous in the geek community, like Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Andrew Morton, Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond, Lawrence Lessig, Larry Wall, Randal Schwartz, Damian Conway, Dave Thomas, Matz (ruby), Guido Van Rossum, Sam Ruby, etc. Though I wouldn't mind Wil showing up, of course. :) -ofer On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, James Pitts wrote: > Wil Wheaton definitely qualifies. Lacking a role on a TV series or a > major open source project, a geek celeb would have to have made at > least a million friends on myspace ;) > > One person who would be cool to have as a guest of honor is Mary > Rajskub (who plays the role of Chloe O'Brian on 24). > > She's the best television geek yet. Any leads? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lynn_Rajskub > > - James > > --- Conrad Heiney wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Two words: Wil Wheaton. > > > > On Oct 24, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Samy Kamkar wrote: > > > > > Now what exactly defines a "geek celeb"? > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. > http://farechase.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Losangeles-pm mailing list > Losangeles-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm > From terrymcintyre at yahoo.com Mon Oct 24 15:25:46 2005 From: terrymcintyre at yahoo.com (terry mcintyre) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:25:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet In-Reply-To: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640A6B3496@pasmail3.office.tmcs> Message-ID: <20051024222546.27845.qmail@web30609.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Back in my hometown of Pittsburgh, there is a monthly Geek Night, which draws dozens, sometimes hundreds of geeks every month. It is held at a large microbrewery, and there are often corporate sponsors who send representatives and lay out a free buffet. A reminder is sent to a large mailing list a week before the event. It's a fabulous opportunity for networking, catching up with old friends and making new ones. There is no speechifying; it's all about food, drink, and conversation. Their www site is http://www.pghgeeks.org/ Something similar might work here. Terry McIntyre UNIX for hire software development / systems administration / security 213-291-5169 or 2132915169 at tmomail.com ( text ) terrymcintyre at yahoo.com __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com From jamespitts at yahoo.com Mon Oct 24 16:37:32 2005 From: jamespitts at yahoo.com (James Pitts) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:37:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet In-Reply-To: <20051024222546.27845.qmail@web30609.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20051024233732.74844.qmail@web50410.mail.yahoo.com> Terry, a more casual feast that happens on a certain day of the month would more manageable and more accessible. I used to go to Wednesday Night org meetings over at Softaware in Marina Del Rey. Wednights was a great group, but just not geeky enough. - James --- terry mcintyre wrote: > > Their www site is http://www.pghgeeks.org/ > > Something similar might work here. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com From ehammond at thinksome.com Mon Oct 24 19:02:30 2005 From: ehammond at thinksome.com (Eric Hammond) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:02:30 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet In-Reply-To: <20051024222546.27845.qmail@web30609.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640A6B3496@pasmail3.office.tmcs> <20051024222546.27845.qmail@web30609.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20051025020230.GA3769@level22.com> terry mcintyre wrote: > Back in my hometown of Pittsburgh, there is a monthly Geek Night [...] > Their www site is http://www.pghgeeks.org/ Sounds like fun. The domain http://www.lageeks.org/ is registered, but I know the folks who did it and they're very supportive of using the domain to promote a regular Geek Night like that. In fact, if it was organized regularly, the domain could be donated to the cause. -- Eric Hammond ehammond at thinksome.com From arkadiy at arkadiy.com Mon Oct 24 20:25:02 2005 From: arkadiy at arkadiy.com (Arkadiy) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:25:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet In-Reply-To: <20051025020230.GA3769@level22.com> Message-ID: <20051025032502.62068.qmail@web202.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sounds like a decent idea. Eric Hammond wrote:terry mcintyre wrote: > Back in my hometown of Pittsburgh, there is a monthly Geek Night [...] > Their www site is http://www.pghgeeks.org/ Sounds like fun. The domain http://www.lageeks.org/ is registered, but I know the folks who did it and they're very supportive of using the domain to promote a regular Geek Night like that. In fact, if it was organized regularly, the domain could be donated to the cause. -- Eric Hammond ehammond at thinksome.com _______________________________________________ Losangeles-pm mailing list Losangeles-pm at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From ben_tilly at operamail.com Mon Oct 24 23:51:15 2005 From: ben_tilly at operamail.com (Benjamin J. Tilly) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:51:15 +0800 Subject: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet Message-ID: <20051025065115.94CAF3AA515@ws5-8.us4.outblaze.com> How many in the geek community don't know who Wil Wheaton is? He counts himself as a geek. Therefore he is a geek celebrity. :-P Cheers, Ben "Ofer Nave" wrote: > > I think geek celeb means more people who are famous in the geek community, > like Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Andrew Morton, Richard Stallman, Eric > Raymond, Lawrence Lessig, Larry Wall, Randal Schwartz, Damian Conway, Dave > Thomas, Matz (ruby), Guido Van Rossum, Sam Ruby, etc. > > Though I wouldn't mind Wil showing up, of course. :) > > -ofer > > On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, James Pitts wrote: > > > Wil Wheaton definitely qualifies. Lacking a role on a TV series or a > > major open source project, a geek celeb would have to have made at > > least a million friends on myspace ;) > > > > One person who would be cool to have as a guest of honor is Mary > > Rajskub (who plays the role of Chloe O'Brian on 24). She's the > > best television geek yet. Any leads? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lynn_Rajskub > > > > - James > > > > --- Conrad Heiney wrote: > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Two words: Wil Wheaton. > > > > On Oct 24, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Samy Kamkar wrote: > > > > > Now what exactly defines a "geek celeb"? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search > > multiple travel sites in one click. > > http://farechase.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Losangeles-pm mailing list > > Losangeles-pm at pm.org > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm > > > > _______________________________________________ > Losangeles-pm mailing list > Losangeles-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm From Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com Tue Oct 25 10:01:46 2005 From: Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com (Todd Cranston-Cuebas) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:01:46 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet Message-ID: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640A6B34C5@pasmail3.office.tmcs> Robert, That's an interesting idea. If people like that idea, well we have a full movie theater in our building. I'd just need to know which night and schedule ahead. I was thinking though that since this is also a perl mongers thing, could advocacy and attracting newbies also be a goal? I'd love to see the local perl community sponsor events like the local PHP groups are doing. The local LAMP group is sponsoring weekly classes in PHP, OO PHP, mySQL, etc. all for free and aimed totally at the complete newbie. It's pretty impressive actually. I don't know enough perl to be of much help, but I can provide some facilities, social networking and support ;) Todd > -----Original Message----- > From: losangeles-pm-bounces at pm.org > [mailto:losangeles-pm-bounces at pm.org] On Behalf Of Robert Spier > Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 11:16 PM > To: Los Angeles Perl Mongers > Subject: Re: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet > > > I love that this thread has taken on a life of its own, and I > hope someone (or any someones) decides to take this ball and > run with it, and that one night[1] the event happens. > > There's definitely a lot of companies who are interested (I can count > 4 already). Another silly idea would be to do a screening of > War Games, Hackers, The Matrix, or Lawrence of Arabia.[2] > > -R ("the idea guy") > > Footnotes: > [1] Hopefully when I'm in town. > > [2] Insert lame camel joke here. > > _______________________________________________ > Losangeles-pm mailing list > Losangeles-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm > From Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com Tue Oct 25 13:04:55 2005 From: Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com (Todd Cranston-Cuebas) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:04:55 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet Message-ID: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640A6B34D4@pasmail3.office.tmcs> In case you're wondering, here is a link to the LAMPsig. http://lampsig.org/new/ You can see their class schedule from this site also. While their approach to web development is based on LAMP the "P" has mostly been PHP. Their focus seems right though in terms of bringing in fresh blood into the LAMP world. Todd > -----Original Message----- > From: losangeles-pm-bounces+tcc=citysearch.com at pm.org > [mailto:losangeles-pm-bounces+tcc=citysearch.com at pm.org] On > Behalf Of Todd Cranston-Cuebas > Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:02 AM > To: Los Angeles Perl Mongers > Subject: Re: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet > > Robert, > > That's an interesting idea. If people like that idea, well we > have a full movie theater in our building. I'd just need to > know which night and schedule ahead. > > I was thinking though that since this is also a perl mongers > thing, could advocacy and attracting newbies also be a goal? > I'd love to see the local perl community sponsor events like > the local PHP groups are doing. The local LAMP group is > sponsoring weekly classes in PHP, OO PHP, mySQL, etc. all for > free and aimed totally at the complete newbie. It's pretty > impressive actually. I don't know enough perl to be of much > help, but I can provide some facilities, social networking > and support ;) > > Todd > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: losangeles-pm-bounces at pm.org > > [mailto:losangeles-pm-bounces at pm.org] On Behalf Of Robert Spier > > Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 11:16 PM > > To: Los Angeles Perl Mongers > > Subject: Re: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet > > > > > > I love that this thread has taken on a life of its own, and I hope > > someone (or any someones) decides to take this ball and run > with it, > > and that one night[1] the event happens. > > > > There's definitely a lot of companies who are interested (I > can count > > 4 already). Another silly idea would be to do a screening of War > > Games, Hackers, The Matrix, or Lawrence of Arabia.[2] > > > > -R ("the idea guy") > > > > Footnotes: > > [1] Hopefully when I'm in town. > > > > [2] Insert lame camel joke here. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Losangeles-pm mailing list > > Losangeles-pm at pm.org > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm > > > _______________________________________________ > Losangeles-pm mailing list > Losangeles-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm > From e at arix.com Tue Oct 25 23:16:49 2005 From: e at arix.com (Erick Calder) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:16:49 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet In-Reply-To: <20051025065115.94CAF3AA515@ws5-8.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: > From: "Benjamin J. Tilly" > Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:51:15 +0800 > To: Ofer Nave , James Pitts > Cc: Los Angeles Perl Mongers > Subject: Re: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet > > How many in the geek community don't know who Wil Wheaton is? good of you to ask this Ben... some of us are just plain clueless... I could always google, of course, but it doesn't sound interesting enough and given I'm already subscribed to this list I figure the answers will come of their own accord :) From ben_tilly at operamail.com Wed Oct 26 10:52:26 2005 From: ben_tilly at operamail.com (Benjamin J. Tilly) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:52:26 +0800 Subject: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet Message-ID: <20051026175226.227573AA515@ws5-8.us4.outblaze.com> "Erick Calder" wrote: > > > From: "Benjamin J. Tilly" > > Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:51:15 +0800 > > To: Ofer Nave , James Pitts > > Cc: Los Angeles Perl Mongers > > Subject: Re: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet > > > > How many in the geek community don't know who Wil Wheaton is? > > good of you to ask this Ben... some of us are just plain clueless... I could > always google, of course, but it doesn't sound interesting enough and given > I'm already subscribed to this list I figure the answers will come of their > own accord :) In that case you watch around the same amount of TV as me (ie 0) and have paid less attention to /. than I have. Wil Wheaton played a particularly annoying and somewhat geeky kid on Star Trek, Next Generation. Cheers, Ben From e at arix.com Sat Oct 29 19:18:11 2005 From: e at arix.com (Erick Calder) Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 19:18:11 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet In-Reply-To: <20051026175226.227573AA515@ws5-8.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: > From: "Benjamin J. Tilly" > Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:52:26 +0800 > To: Erick Calder , Ofer Nave , James Pitts > > Cc: Los Angeles Perl Mongers > Subject: Re: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet > > In that case you watch around the same amount of TV as me (ie 0) and have > paid less attention to /. than I have. > > Wil Wheaton played a particularly annoying and somewhat geeky kid on Star > Trek, Next Generation. heh. that would be about right. for me to watch TV I'd have to buy one :) From pete at peterbenjamin.com Sat Oct 29 20:54:35 2005 From: pete at peterbenjamin.com (Peter Benjamin) Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 20:54:35 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Geek Banquet In-Reply-To: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640A6B34D4@pasmail3.office.t mcs> References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640A6B34D4@pasmail3.office.tmcs> Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.2.20051029205155.04acb5e0@peterbenjamin.com> At 01:04 PM 10/25/2005, Todd Cranston-Cuebas wrote: >In case you're wondering, here is a link to the LAMPsig. > >http://lampsig.org/new/ > >You can see their class schedule from this site also. While their approach >to web development is based on LAMP the "P" has mostly been PHP. Their focus >seems right though in terms of bringing in fresh blood into the LAMP world. Thanks Todd for that intro to LAMPsig. My name is Peter Benjamin and along with Jim Workman we co-founded the LA LAMPsig over a year ago. It is true we have focused on PHP and MySQL, but we have had a Perl talk before, and other non LAMP talks. We would like to have a perl speaker, at the newbie intro level would be best for our membership. Contact me off list if you have interest in being a speaker. The PHP classes should have a restart in a few weeks, and I can post the announcement here on LA PM if anyone asks me too.