From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Tue Nov 4 18:16:40 2008 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:16:40 -0500 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] Perl meeting @ the end of November Message-ID: <49110208.2090207@babyl.dyndns.org> Howdie all, Good news! Unless unexpected changes of plans, TravelPod has graciously offered to let us use their meeting room for Perl meetings. The first open opportunity is for the last week of November, which sounds like a pretty good time to me. We already have two presentations on the agenda: one guy from TravelPod is going to present on a yet-to-be-determined topic (we should have more details about that in a few days), and I was thinking of presenting the material of an upcoming Perl Review article on CPAN Patching with Git. To make a solid evening out of it, we'd need one or two more presentations. Do we have any volunteers that'd be willing to step forward? If you're looking for inspiration, amongst the cool topics that (at least I) would like to see, there's Catalyst, Moose, the all-new, all-shiny Method::Signatures, the new super-performing Perl profiler which name currently escape me and Padre, the new Perl editor. Of course, any other Perl topic is almost more than welcome. :-) Joy, `/anick From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Wed Nov 5 19:45:18 2008 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:45:18 -0500 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] Fwd: Support osbootcamp by voting Message-ID: <4912684E.5020201@babyl.dyndns.org> (osbootcamp is applying for funding from Google. If you attended one of their sessions, or enjoyed the video of your truly babbling about Perl on their site, consider voting for them.) =begin forward Hi Everyone, osbootcamp has applied for funding from Google's 10^100 project . We need your support on voting day so we can continue to offer great events covering open source for free. We have asked for a modest amount of money in line with our sponsorship structure. If you would be so kind, please vote for us when the time comes. To sign up for a reminder, please visit: http://www.project10tothe100.com/reminder.html Thank you for your support. Andrew =end forward From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Wed Nov 5 19:42:23 2008 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:42:23 -0500 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] Fwd: help us estimate the size of the Catalyst user base Message-ID: <4912679F.3030403@babyl.dyndns.org> Hi All, We need your assistance to help estimate the number of users of Catalyst. Matt Trout and I have written a proposal for a Catalyst book, and while we have a well known, credible publisher interested, they want the assurance that the market for the book is large enough to make it worth their while. If you could take the time to provide the following information (I've set reply-to to me for your confidentiality, and so that we don't pollute the list with this stuff) this would be really useful. I'll also let you know the results of this survey when I have them. I will treat this information in confidence, and will only use aggregated data so that you or your organisation will not be identifiable in the report I make on this data. There are about 1000 subscribers on the catalyst mailing list, and I'd hope for a response rate of about 10% (i.e. about 100 replies). The information I'm collecting is likely to result in an outcome that is useful to you in a commercial way, so your participation would be much appreciated. Please try to ensure that only one person from your organisation answers these questions. 1. What country are you in? 2. How many people are on your team? 3. How many of those people are writing code with Catalyst? 3a. If there are non Catalyst coders on your team, how many of the whole team would you like to be writing Catalyst code? 4. How many people using Catalyst on your team are subscribers to the Catalyst mailing list? 5. How many people writing Catalyst code on your team use the #catalyst irc channel on irc.perl.org? 6. These two questions are about the potential for the growth of Catalyst usage in your organisation. 6a. How many people do you think will be using Catalyst in your organisation in 12 months time? 6b. How many people do you think will be using Catalyst in your organisation in 2 years time? Thanks for your cooperation. If you know of any teams who are users of Catalyst but that do not subscribe to the Catalyst mailing list, or are on the IRC channel, please forward this email to them. Thanks. Kieren Diment From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Wed Nov 12 16:45:08 2008 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:45:08 -0500 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] Perl 5.8.9 rc1 is out Message-ID: <491B7894.2040209@babyl.dyndns.org> See http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/11/1842248 for the details. If you have the soul of a beta tester, now is the time to download the release candidate and test the pants out of it. Joy, `/anick From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Sun Nov 16 18:51:51 2008 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:51:51 -0500 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] Ottawa Perl Mongers present: Owne Byrne, "What I learned about LAMP Development at Digg" Message-ID: <4920DC47.7080600@babyl.dyndns.org> When: Tuesday December 2nd at 7:00pm Where: TravelPod office (377 Dalhousie Ave., 3rd floor) Speaker: Owne Byrne Topic: What I learned about LAMP Development at Digg Owen Byrne is currently Senior Manager of Travelpod Labs, where he is leading a crack team of developers building a large travel-related application for launch in early 2009. He is probably best known as the co-founder and original developer of digg.com, which at one point was the 55th largest website in the world according to alexa.com. He was the primary technical decision maker there for most of its period of explosive growth, from inception to the Series A financing. He holds 3 degrees from Saint Mary's University and Dalhousie University, as well as an ABD from the University of Manitoba. He has over 20 years experience in software development and managerial roles, including a brief stint as a university professor. He has presented at several conferences, including O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo, Digital Hollywood: Building Blocks, Webmasterworld PubCon, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada and most recently University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Reflections/Projection. About TravelPod: TravelPod.com was launched in 1997 as the Web's Original Travel Blog. The first site to enable members to create online travel blogs which revolutionized the way people travel and share their adventures with the world. Please RSVP to me if you have intentions to show up, just so that we have an idea of how many peeps to expect. Hope to see you there! `/anick From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Sun Nov 16 19:07:43 2008 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:07:43 -0500 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] Anyone knows the OCLUG list for events and meetings? Message-ID: <4920DFFF.4090102@babyl.dyndns.org> Howdie mongers, do anyone know which OCLUG mailing list I could use to let everyone know of the meeting of December? I went on their site only to discover they have something like 3 bazillion lists, and the last thing I want to do is to broadcast on the wrong channel (which is never a good way to introduce yourself to such a group :-) ). Joy, `/anick From matthew at mdarwin.ca Sun Nov 16 19:25:15 2008 From: matthew at mdarwin.ca (Matthew Darwin) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:25:15 -0500 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] Anyone knows the OCLUG list for events and meetings? In-Reply-To: <4920DFFF.4090102@babyl.dyndns.org> References: <4920DFFF.4090102@babyl.dyndns.org> Message-ID: <4920E41B.8070804@mdarwin.ca> oclug-announce at lists.oclug.on.ca would seem to be the right one. Yanick Champoux wrote: > Howdie mongers, > > do anyone know which OCLUG mailing list I could use to let everyone > know of the meeting of December? I went on their site only to discover > they have something like 3 bazillion lists, and the last thing I want to > do is to broadcast on the wrong channel (which is never a good way to > introduce yourself to such a group :-) ). > > Joy, > `/anick > _______________________________________________ > Ottawa-pm mailing list > Ottawa-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/ottawa-pm -- Matthew Darwin matthew at mdarwin.ca http://www.mdarwin.ca From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Thu Nov 27 17:29:16 2008 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:29:16 -0500 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] [Fwd: [pm_groups] How do you say Padre in ... your language?] Message-ID: <492F496C.8030601@babyl.dyndns.org> If anyone wants to help i18ize Padre... -------- Original Message -------- A month or so ago I was surprised to see Heiko Jansen sending me a German translation of Padre, the Perl IDE http://padre.perlide.org/ Then yesterday I received a Korean version from Keedi Kim and today a Hungarian version from Gy?rgy P?sztor. (OK, I asked for the last one but he did it within 2 hours I think) Let's see how fast can your local user group come up with a translation. I think it would be awesome to have 20+ translations in the next release on Monday 1st December. Actually it isn't a lot of work either. Right now the only thing that needs to be done is creating the relevant .po file based on the messages.pot file just as the others were created See the files here: http://svn.perlide.org/padre/trunk/share/locale/ These are all plain text files. So I'd like to ask the PM group leaders (especially those with readership in other those 4 languages) to send out this call to their respective groups. Thanks for your cooperation. Gabor