From friedman at highwire.stanford.edu Sat Oct 1 22:50:33 2005 From: friedman at highwire.stanford.edu (Michael Friedman) Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 22:50:33 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] Missing PM groups? Message-ID: <2AA83F80-DCFD-4840-B0A2-E5F981834FCB@highwire.stanford.edu> Guys, You may have seen the latest Perl.com newsletter. (If not, you should go sign up!) > Dave Cross, TPF's Perl Monger in Chief, has posted a call for > missing Perl > Monger groups. If you're a member (or leader) of any group on his > list, > please contact him at user_groups at pm dot org: > > You may not have clicked through to the list itself, though, where Yuma.pm and Tuscon.pm are both AWOL. Anyone know anyone in those groups? If so, you might want to pass the word that they're going to be delisted if they don't respond... -- Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Friedman HighWire Press Phone: 650-725-1974 Stanford University FAX: 270-721-8034 --------------------------------------------------------------------- From vodhner at cox.net Mon Oct 3 06:57:50 2005 From: vodhner at cox.net (Victor Odhner) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 06:57:50 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] Perl programmer needed for direct hire Message-ID: <434138DE.2070807@cox.net> Here is a direct employment opportunity for a Perl programmer. Requires solid comfort with Perl's basic work-horse features. Having built and maintained real applications supporting real business activities would be a big plus, but other experience may also qualify -- see below. These Perl applications run on Windows (using ActiveState Perl) or Linux, so knowledge of Windows (command line, scheduling, VBA, etc.) or Linux/Unix (shell scripting, cron, etc.) are of value here. Some of these applications emulate human interaction (screen scraping) with remote systems; others do data conversion and SQL queries, and interact with Unix via a telnet session. Work is in a team environment with application specialists who have various skills, so there's a need to learn from and teach others. Rarely, the whole team works together on verifying or entering data. It's a very lively environment and you get to see your work in action -- no ivory tower here. The environment includes a number of hotel reservations tools, data flowing to web-based booking services, conversion of data from new customers, etc. If you know Perl but lack professional experience, other qualification that could help in this job are MS Excel, SQL, shell scripting, and basic networking; any prior contact with the hospitality industry; or other office work, dealing with tools and procedures. Because of the varied nature of the work, the requirements are rather flexible. This is a job that I did before transferring into my current position in software support. The people are nice, and the challenges are varied. The company is good to work for, with full bennies, several avenues of possible advancement, broad technology exposure and good mobility. We are located by the 101 near the Scottsdale Airpark. Please contact me for further information. Thanks, Vic From scott at illogics.org Thu Oct 6 15:47:39 2005 From: scott at illogics.org (Scott Walters) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 15:47:39 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] Second-Saturdays party in Fountain Hills -- come one, come all In-Reply-To: <434138DE.2070807@cox.net> References: <434138DE.2070807@cox.net> Message-ID: <20051006224739.GA15273@illogics.org> http://www.slowass.net/~scott/2ndSatF05.jpg That's a party a friend of mine throws every 2nd Saturday of the month. It's a mixed but interesting crowd and the food is great. There's beer, wine, and a bar, but the focus is conversation. -scott From scott at illogics.org Wed Oct 19 08:18:11 2005 From: scott at illogics.org (Scott Walters) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:18:11 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] Fwd: Monday was the 11th anniversary of the release of Perl 5.000 Message-ID: <20051019151811.GH15273@illogics.org> ----- Forwarded message from Mark Jason Dominus ----- Return-Path: perl5-porters-return-105797-scott=slowass.net at perl.org X-Original-To: scott at slowass.net Delivered-To: scott at slowass.net Received: from lists.develooper.com (x6.develooper.com [63.251.223.186]) by slowass.net (Postfix) with SMTP id BAF68553A5 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:13:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: (qmail 21532 invoked by uid 514); 19 Oct 2005 15:07:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact perl5-porters-help at perl.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: X-List-Archive: List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list perl5-porters at perl.org Received: (qmail 21488 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2005 15:07:50 -0000 Delivered-To: perl5-porters at perl.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=8.0 tests=BAYES_00,BLANK_LINES_70_80 X-Spam-Check-By: la.mx.develooper.com Received-SPF: pass (x1.develooper.com: local policy) Message-ID: <20051019150735.24314.qmail at plover.com> To: perl5-porters at perl.org Subject: Monday was the 11th anniversary of the release of Perl 5.000 Organization: Plover Systems Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:07:35 -0400 From: Mark Jason Dominus That is all. ----- End forwarded message ----- From awwaiid at thelackthereof.org Thu Oct 20 09:59:34 2005 From: awwaiid at thelackthereof.org (Brock) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:59:34 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] [JMT@magentatech.com: FW: perl programmer needed] Message-ID: <20051020165933.GK7251@thelackthereof.org> Greetings all, got a request to forward this on. Hows everyone doing? Sorry we haven't had a meeting yet, still haven't attained a location. Working on it. --Brock ----- Forwarded message from Jeff ----- Looking for someone with lots of experience developing scalable web applications in perl with mysql running on apache and linux. If you consider your self a highly skilled developer in these areas, please send me your resume. need somone asap. Position is in south Scottsdale onsite full time only. jmt at magentatech.com ----- End forwarded message ----- From jzugel at excite.com Fri Oct 21 11:13:35 2005 From: jzugel at excite.com (John Zugel) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:13:35 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... Message-ID: <20051021181335.60E6BC14D6@xprdmailfe25.nwk.excite.com> Hi y'all - Attempting to help find a meeting room, I offer the following : 1. Most public libraries have meeting rooms, but they apparently charge for use, so depending on how flush we're feeling, this is a possibility. 2. Most public libraries have study rooms, and Scottsdale's offers WiFi, but there's usually a maximum of 6, so depending on how cozy we're feeling, this is a possiblity. 3. ASU's library has study rooms, but I don't know how large they are. The library has never asked me for ID, but that may just be my professorial (ie. unkempt) appearance. 4. When I lived in an apartment, the apartment complex had a common room available at no charge, large enough for a good-size gathering, with some restrictions. But after 7 PM, the gate was closed and you had to buzz for admittance, a minor annoyance. 5. When I lived in Silicon Valley, one of the Carls Jrs had a meeting room that they regularly made available to groups for meetings. Perhaps one or more fast food/restaurants would help out on their slow nights, if approached properly. 6. I have no idea about how or how well the technology works, but would NetMeeting or something like it allow us to hold a virtual meeting ? If not, is there an entrepreneurial^H^H...^H^H, money-making possibility here, or an open source solution waiting for completion/contributions ? 7. If we were in some way allied with some other group, perhaps we could piggyback on their already-reserved space. Broadening the charter to combine with the PHP group that meets at Walt's TV (already a sizable group) might cross-pollinate both groups, altho that may have already happened. There was a Python group, but they seem to have disbanded/died. Perhaps they could be included. And maybe start a Ruby group, just for the extra weight on the letterhead. So, that's my thoughts. I've got emails out to Phx Public Library and Scottsdale Public Library for rates/availability/etc. I'll post more when/if I know more. HTH, jrz _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! From scott at illogics.org Fri Oct 21 12:00:15 2005 From: scott at illogics.org (Scott Walters) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:00:15 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... In-Reply-To: <20051021181335.60E6BC14D6@xprdmailfe25.nwk.excite.com> References: <20051021181335.60E6BC14D6@xprdmailfe25.nwk.excite.com> Message-ID: <20051021190015.GP15273@illogics.org> Hi John, There are a lot of good ideas in here. Many of them have already been pointed out at one time or another, or are actively being considered, or have recently been done. I think Brock might just be holding out, trying to get proper meeting space at ASU, or something else we've been talking about doing for a while. And Phoenix.PM tends to organize meetings at a leisurely pace. We certainly have meeting spaces we can use (see the Website at phoenix.pm.org for a list of past locations), but we're trying to circulate to more parts of the Valley to give more first-timers an excuse to make a meeting, and we're looking for professional digs to contrast the pizza joints, libraries, and coffee shops we've been winding up at. Also, it's easier to consider specific options -- like the George and Dragon pub in downtown Phoenix, or the Nello's in downtown Scottsdale ;) Still, this is a good starting point for summerizing options. 8. I'm pretty sure I can get some space (and a sponser) at Scottsdale Community College, but I keep forgetting to ask. 9. http://www.azontherocks.com -- how does Phoenix.PM feel about having a rock-climbing social meeting? $20 gets you a gear rental and a day pass, and they show you the ropes (har har har) too. If we get about 8 people or so who want to do this, we can book it as a party and save even more money. > 1. Most public libraries have meeting rooms, but they apparently > charge for use, so depending on how flush we're feeling, this is > a possibility. They did downtown Scottsdale's library recently, I think. I missed that one. > 3. ASU's library has study rooms, but I don't know how large they are. The library has never asked me for ID, but that may just be my professorial (ie. unkempt) appearance. They're pretty small for our requirements. A coffee shop near campus, or the student union, might be options. > 4. When I lived in an apartment, the apartment complex had a common room available at no charge, large enough for a good-size gathering, with some restrictions. But after 7 PM, the gate was closed and you had to buzz for admittance, a minor annoyance. Too unprofessional, IMO. I'd sooner have everyone to the house ;) > 5. When I lived in Silicon Valley, one of the Carls Jrs had a meeting room that they regularly made available to groups for meetings. Perhaps one or more fast food/restaurants would help out on their slow nights, if approached properly. We recently did Nello's Pizza in North Scottsdale. The turn-out was great, but Nellos had a few other large parties the same night at the same time, so we wound up waiting to be seated for a long time. That was just rotten timing. And they don't take reservations, either. There's a downtown Scottsdale Nello's now too, by the way. One of the reasons I suggested Nello's before was their good beer selection, with local micros on tap and about 20 beers in the cooler, but there are apparently surprisingly few beer drinkers in Phoenix.PM. > 6. I have no idea about how or how well the technology works, but would NetMeeting or something like it allow us to hold a virtual meeting ? If not, is there an entrepreneurial^H^H...^H^H, money-making possibility here, or an open source solution waiting for completion/contributions ? We're dabbling with doing audio recordings (should set up proper podcast feeds eventually) and I'm talking about doing video as well. There are a lot of Linux users in the group (looks pretty fifty-fifty between Linux and Windows), so if you say NetMeeting, you should probably say NetMeeting/ GnomeMeeting ;) We did have an IRC "virtual" meeting once, and turn-out was poor. > 7. If we were in some way allied with some other group, perhaps we could piggyback on their already-reserved space. Broadening the charter to combine with the PHP group that meets at Walt's TV (already a sizable group) might cross-pollinate both groups, altho that may have already happened. There was a Python group, but they seem to have disbanded/died. Perhaps they could be included. And maybe start a Ruby group, just for the extra weight on the letterhead. I don't want to redefine the group as being a splinter of another group (PLUG had also been suggested in the past), but I've been advocating coinciding meetings with other groups for just this effect -- cross-pollination. > > So, that's my thoughts. I've got emails out to Phx Public Library and Scottsdale Public Library for rates/availability/etc. I'll post more when/if I know more. -scott > > HTH, > > jrz > > _______________________________________________ > Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com > The most personalized portal on the Web! > > > _______________________________________________ > Phoenix-pm mailing list > Phoenix-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm From scott at illogics.org Fri Oct 21 13:51:49 2005 From: scott at illogics.org (Scott Walters) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:51:49 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] The employement escapades of Scott Message-ID: <20051021205149.GZ12638@illogics.org> Just in case anyone out there is actually amused by my antics (doubtful as it is), here's the latest chapter: someone calls and leaves me a message at home (with someone who foolishly picked up the telephone -- will people never learn!?). I call them back (I should have known better). Now, I'm a consultant, and I establish that immediately. Not only am I a consultant, but as far as they're concerned, I'm staying that way. They interview me. They ask for an example of integration. They belittle it because the company was small. They ask for an example of a large dataset. They belittle it because it's offline. They never ask about high-profile clients but I start to tell them just to shut them up. They interrupt me. Of course, you don't interview consultants -- you hire them, or you ask for a proposal, and if you ask for a proposal, you accept it or ignore it. The next day, they email me. My reply is below. The barbs included, among other things, my description of having delt with plenty of fibrechannel, load balancing, SSL acceleration etc, hardware, but never having employed it for high-volume sites as the kind of dot coms that buy it generally go out of business, suggesting I think they're going to go out of business. But the jokes on me. They emailed me telling me to call their CEO so they can tell me I didn't get the job. I called the CEO to tell him I'd sent as I didn't have his email address and wanted to him to know that his underlings (Jeff, in this case) had a written explanation of why I was refusing the position. His reply was, in a Brooklyn accent, "Yeah, I'm the CEO, I own the company, and they already got someone", and he hangs up. You can never be rude too early -- try to be nice and professional about delivering a turn-down letter and they just beat you to the punch. Damnit. I lose again. Then there's the bigger picture -- the dot-coms startups are getting snotty again, acting like they're hot sh!t. Business has been picking up a little, but the level of snottiness far exceeds the level of success of the little bastads. -scott ----- Forwarded message from Scott Walters ----- Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:32:52 -0700 From: Scott Walters To: Jeff Subject: Re: ..... group Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5i Hi Jeff, After some reflection, I've concluded I don't have the time or energy to deal with this project. Sorry I didn't pick up the phone, but after the barbs I threw in return, I really didn't expect to hear back. I'm quite fond of my "mom and pop" businesses you spoke derisively of -- and they represent real businesses, not dot-com speculation. Your average "mom and pop" brick and morter store gone online drives more traffic than your average dot-com. The little brick and morters I did in 1998 are still around. All of the dot-coms are gone. I have one "mom and pop" outfit in mind that badly needs some performance tuning and profiling. I'm sure you guys won't have any problem at all with the load. Since the slights of yesterday didn't cut it, maybe mean names will: You goons probably all golf and drive BMWs. Working with folks like that is fine if your only ambition is to fund your own golf and BWM habits, which I lack. You may find that anyone who has programmed heavily since before the advent of the Web will become irritable when questioned about their ability to do Web programming. Perhaps what hit my nerve was that you guys are about the third North Scottsdale company this month to try to interview me unexpectedly -- and the others, after using my time friviously, concluded "there are better Perl programmers in the valley" -- yes, there are -- about two. We all hang out together and organize the local Perl users group. But I think you'll find a junior programmer, fresh out of school, to mesh better -- and be perfectly qualified to modify a Perl app. Heck, I may even turn you off to Perl all together. I'm sure you'll find Python and PHP programmers much more agreeable. Us Perl programmers are mostly just grumpy old sysadmins and hackers with far more interesting projects to work on -- like maintaining strong typing implementations for dynamic languages, and writing langauge backends to target other VM's bytecodes. Busy, busy, busy! Seriously, though, I wish you guys the best of luck with @Mail, if you decide to use it, and with your project that you've worked so hard on. If you're still shopping for a Perl programmer, please consider using http://jobs.perl.org, which is considered _the_ place to go for Perl programmers. Oh, and there are plenty of programmers with high-profile jobs on their resume who are complete idiots -- when interviewing in the future, consider giving more attention to actual accomplishments and less to employer names. Regards, -scott On 0, Jeff Mangan wrote: > > Bob wants to talk with you, please call us at 480-216-3972 or > 602-708-1250 ASAP. > > Thanks. ----- End forwarded message ----- From bwmetz at att.com Fri Oct 21 16:32:15 2005 From: bwmetz at att.com (Metz, Bobby W, WCS) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:32:15 -0500 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... Message-ID: <01D5341D04A2E64AB9B3457690473367A7A255@OCCLUST01EVS1.ugd.att.com> I'll ask my employer as well. Security is a bit of a hassle and of course the bathrooms are behind locked doors, so you'll have to hold it, but I'll ask anyway. Location is just off I-10 & Ray Rd. so a bit South for some of you. Bobby -----Original Message----- From: phoenix-pm-bounces at pm.org [mailto:phoenix-pm-bounces at pm.org]On Behalf Of Scott Walters Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 12:00 PM To: John Zugel Cc: phoenix-pm at pm.org Subject: Re: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... Hi John, There are a lot of good ideas in here. Many of them have already been pointed out at one time or another, or are actively being considered, or have recently been done. I think Brock might just be holding out, trying to get proper meeting space at ASU, or something else we've been talking about doing for a while. And Phoenix.PM tends to organize meetings at a leisurely pace. We certainly have meeting spaces we can use (see the Website at phoenix.pm.org for a list of past locations), but we're trying to circulate to more parts of the Valley to give more first-timers an excuse to make a meeting, and we're looking for professional digs to contrast the pizza joints, libraries, and coffee shops we've been winding up at. Also, it's easier to consider specific options -- like the George and Dragon pub in downtown Phoenix, or the Nello's in downtown Scottsdale ;) Still, this is a good starting point for summerizing options. 8. I'm pretty sure I can get some space (and a sponser) at Scottsdale Community College, but I keep forgetting to ask. 9. http://www.azontherocks.com -- how does Phoenix.PM feel about having a rock-climbing social meeting? $20 gets you a gear rental and a day pass, and they show you the ropes (har har har) too. If we get about 8 people or so who want to do this, we can book it as a party and save even more money. > 1. Most public libraries have meeting rooms, but they apparently > charge for use, so depending on how flush we're feeling, this is > a possibility. They did downtown Scottsdale's library recently, I think. I missed that one. > 3. ASU's library has study rooms, but I don't know how large they are. The library has never asked me for ID, but that may just be my professorial (ie. unkempt) appearance. They're pretty small for our requirements. A coffee shop near campus, or the student union, might be options. > 4. When I lived in an apartment, the apartment complex had a common room available at no charge, large enough for a good-size gathering, with some restrictions. But after 7 PM, the gate was closed and you had to buzz for admittance, a minor annoyance. Too unprofessional, IMO. I'd sooner have everyone to the house ;) > 5. When I lived in Silicon Valley, one of the Carls Jrs had a meeting room that they regularly made available to groups for meetings. Perhaps one or more fast food/restaurants would help out on their slow nights, if approached properly. We recently did Nello's Pizza in North Scottsdale. The turn-out was great, but Nellos had a few other large parties the same night at the same time, so we wound up waiting to be seated for a long time. That was just rotten timing. And they don't take reservations, either. There's a downtown Scottsdale Nello's now too, by the way. One of the reasons I suggested Nello's before was their good beer selection, with local micros on tap and about 20 beers in the cooler, but there are apparently surprisingly few beer drinkers in Phoenix.PM. > 6. I have no idea about how or how well the technology works, but would NetMeeting or something like it allow us to hold a virtual meeting ? If not, is there an entrepreneurial^H^H...^H^H, money-making possibility here, or an open source solution waiting for completion/contributions ? We're dabbling with doing audio recordings (should set up proper podcast feeds eventually) and I'm talking about doing video as well. There are a lot of Linux users in the group (looks pretty fifty-fifty between Linux and Windows), so if you say NetMeeting, you should probably say NetMeeting/ GnomeMeeting ;) We did have an IRC "virtual" meeting once, and turn-out was poor. > 7. If we were in some way allied with some other group, perhaps we could piggyback on their already-reserved space. Broadening the charter to combine with the PHP group that meets at Walt's TV (already a sizable group) might cross-pollinate both groups, altho that may have already happened. There was a Python group, but they seem to have disbanded/died. Perhaps they could be included. And maybe start a Ruby group, just for the extra weight on the letterhead. I don't want to redefine the group as being a splinter of another group (PLUG had also been suggested in the past), but I've been advocating coinciding meetings with other groups for just this effect -- cross-pollination. > > So, that's my thoughts. I've got emails out to Phx Public Library and Scottsdale Public Library for rates/availability/etc. I'll post more when/if I know more. -scott > > HTH, > > jrz > > _______________________________________________ > Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com > The most personalized portal on the Web! > > > _______________________________________________ > Phoenix-pm mailing list > Phoenix-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm _______________________________________________ Phoenix-pm mailing list Phoenix-pm at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm From awwaiid at thelackthereof.org Fri Oct 21 16:50:39 2005 From: awwaiid at thelackthereof.org (Brock) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:50:39 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... In-Reply-To: <20051021190015.GP15273@illogics.org> References: <20051021181335.60E6BC14D6@xprdmailfe25.nwk.excite.com> <20051021190015.GP15273@illogics.org> Message-ID: <20051021235039.GN7251@thelackthereof.org> No need to hypothesis -- being Brock I am in the unique position to tell you what is going on in Brock's head. I am indeed holding out a bit for a proper meeting place. I got a contact at SCC (Gerald Thurman) and am waiting for a reply from there. I think Ben implied in another email on this topic that he may not be able to get us a room at ASU as I had hoped. I might go trowling again there anyway though. I'm on my way out the door now, will respond to other parts of recent threads later tonight or tomorrow :) --Brock On 2005.10.21.12.00, Scott Walters wrote: | I think Brock might just be holding out, trying to get proper | meeting space at ASU, or something else we've been talking about | doing for a while. And Phoenix.PM tends to organize meetings at | a leisurely pace. From bwmetz at att.com Mon Oct 24 12:44:16 2005 From: bwmetz at att.com (Metz, Bobby W, WCS) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:44:16 -0500 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... Message-ID: <01D5341D04A2E64AB9B3457690473367AACED3@OCCLUST01EVS1.ugd.att.com> If no one minds coming to 50th St. & Ray Rd just off I-10, we can have a meeting where I work. Large room for presentations. I'll work on getting Inet access if you think we'd like to use this...not sure if it's active in the room. Bobby -----Original Message----- From: Metz, Bobby W, WCS Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 4:32 PM To: 'Scott Walters'; John Zugel Cc: phoenix-pm at pm.org Subject: RE: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... I'll ask my employer as well. Security is a bit of a hassle and of course the bathrooms are behind locked doors, so you'll have to hold it, but I'll ask anyway. Location is just off I-10 & Ray Rd. so a bit South for some of you. Bobby -----Original Message----- From: phoenix-pm-bounces at pm.org [mailto:phoenix-pm-bounces at pm.org]On Behalf Of Scott Walters Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 12:00 PM To: John Zugel Cc: phoenix-pm at pm.org Subject: Re: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... Hi John, There are a lot of good ideas in here. Many of them have already been pointed out at one time or another, or are actively being considered, or have recently been done. I think Brock might just be holding out, trying to get proper meeting space at ASU, or something else we've been talking about doing for a while. And Phoenix.PM tends to organize meetings at a leisurely pace. We certainly have meeting spaces we can use (see the Website at phoenix.pm.org for a list of past locations), but we're trying to circulate to more parts of the Valley to give more first-timers an excuse to make a meeting, and we're looking for professional digs to contrast the pizza joints, libraries, and coffee shops we've been winding up at. Also, it's easier to consider specific options -- like the George and Dragon pub in downtown Phoenix, or the Nello's in downtown Scottsdale ;) Still, this is a good starting point for summerizing options. 8. I'm pretty sure I can get some space (and a sponser) at Scottsdale Community College, but I keep forgetting to ask. 9. http://www.azontherocks.com -- how does Phoenix.PM feel about having a rock-climbing social meeting? $20 gets you a gear rental and a day pass, and they show you the ropes (har har har) too. If we get about 8 people or so who want to do this, we can book it as a party and save even more money. > 1. Most public libraries have meeting rooms, but they apparently > charge for use, so depending on how flush we're feeling, this is > a possibility. They did downtown Scottsdale's library recently, I think. I missed that one. > 3. ASU's library has study rooms, but I don't know how large they are. The library has never asked me for ID, but that may just be my professorial (ie. unkempt) appearance. They're pretty small for our requirements. A coffee shop near campus, or the student union, might be options. > 4. When I lived in an apartment, the apartment complex had a common room available at no charge, large enough for a good-size gathering, with some restrictions. But after 7 PM, the gate was closed and you had to buzz for admittance, a minor annoyance. Too unprofessional, IMO. I'd sooner have everyone to the house ;) > 5. When I lived in Silicon Valley, one of the Carls Jrs had a meeting room that they regularly made available to groups for meetings. Perhaps one or more fast food/restaurants would help out on their slow nights, if approached properly. We recently did Nello's Pizza in North Scottsdale. The turn-out was great, but Nellos had a few other large parties the same night at the same time, so we wound up waiting to be seated for a long time. That was just rotten timing. And they don't take reservations, either. There's a downtown Scottsdale Nello's now too, by the way. One of the reasons I suggested Nello's before was their good beer selection, with local micros on tap and about 20 beers in the cooler, but there are apparently surprisingly few beer drinkers in Phoenix.PM. > 6. I have no idea about how or how well the technology works, but would NetMeeting or something like it allow us to hold a virtual meeting ? If not, is there an entrepreneurial^H^H...^H^H, money-making possibility here, or an open source solution waiting for completion/contributions ? We're dabbling with doing audio recordings (should set up proper podcast feeds eventually) and I'm talking about doing video as well. There are a lot of Linux users in the group (looks pretty fifty-fifty between Linux and Windows), so if you say NetMeeting, you should probably say NetMeeting/ GnomeMeeting ;) We did have an IRC "virtual" meeting once, and turn-out was poor. > 7. If we were in some way allied with some other group, perhaps we could piggyback on their already-reserved space. Broadening the charter to combine with the PHP group that meets at Walt's TV (already a sizable group) might cross-pollinate both groups, altho that may have already happened. There was a Python group, but they seem to have disbanded/died. Perhaps they could be included. And maybe start a Ruby group, just for the extra weight on the letterhead. I don't want to redefine the group as being a splinter of another group (PLUG had also been suggested in the past), but I've been advocating coinciding meetings with other groups for just this effect -- cross-pollination. > > So, that's my thoughts. I've got emails out to Phx Public Library and Scottsdale Public Library for rates/availability/etc. I'll post more when/if I know more. -scott > > HTH, > > jrz > > _______________________________________________ > Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com > The most personalized portal on the Web! > > > _______________________________________________ > Phoenix-pm mailing list > Phoenix-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm _______________________________________________ Phoenix-pm mailing list Phoenix-pm at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm From benjamin.trussell at asu.edu Mon Oct 24 14:03:16 2005 From: benjamin.trussell at asu.edu (Benjamin Trussell) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:03:16 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... Message-ID: <037FF41095AD394DB28A3991559A0FB48DAE82@EX04.asurite.ad.asu.edu> I've got an extra 802.11b router I could bring along to set up a wifi hotspot, if you can get permission from your work to do so (if needed). Ben -----Original Message----- From: phoenix-pm-bounces at pm.org [mailto:phoenix-pm-bounces at pm.org] On Behalf Of Metz, Bobby W, WCS Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 12:44 PM To: phoenix-pm at pm.org Subject: Re: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... If no one minds coming to 50th St. & Ray Rd just off I-10, we can have a meeting where I work. Large room for presentations. I'll work on getting Inet access if you think we'd like to use this...not sure if it's active in the room. Bobby -----Original Message----- From: Metz, Bobby W, WCS Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 4:32 PM To: 'Scott Walters'; John Zugel Cc: phoenix-pm at pm.org Subject: RE: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... I'll ask my employer as well. Security is a bit of a hassle and of course the bathrooms are behind locked doors, so you'll have to hold it, but I'll ask anyway. Location is just off I-10 & Ray Rd. so a bit South for some of you. Bobby -----Original Message----- From: phoenix-pm-bounces at pm.org [mailto:phoenix-pm-bounces at pm.org]On Behalf Of Scott Walters Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 12:00 PM To: John Zugel Cc: phoenix-pm at pm.org Subject: Re: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... Hi John, There are a lot of good ideas in here. Many of them have already been pointed out at one time or another, or are actively being considered, or have recently been done. I think Brock might just be holding out, trying to get proper meeting space at ASU, or something else we've been talking about doing for a while. And Phoenix.PM tends to organize meetings at a leisurely pace. We certainly have meeting spaces we can use (see the Website at phoenix.pm.org for a list of past locations), but we're trying to circulate to more parts of the Valley to give more first-timers an excuse to make a meeting, and we're looking for professional digs to contrast the pizza joints, libraries, and coffee shops we've been winding up at. Also, it's easier to consider specific options -- like the George and Dragon pub in downtown Phoenix, or the Nello's in downtown Scottsdale ;) Still, this is a good starting point for summerizing options. 8. I'm pretty sure I can get some space (and a sponser) at Scottsdale Community College, but I keep forgetting to ask. 9. http://www.azontherocks.com -- how does Phoenix.PM feel about having a rock-climbing social meeting? $20 gets you a gear rental and a day pass, and they show you the ropes (har har har) too. If we get about 8 people or so who want to do this, we can book it as a party and save even more money. > 1. Most public libraries have meeting rooms, but they apparently > charge for use, so depending on how flush we're feeling, this is > a possibility. They did downtown Scottsdale's library recently, I think. I missed that one. > 3. ASU's library has study rooms, but I don't know how large they are. The library has never asked me for ID, but that may just be my professorial (ie. unkempt) appearance. They're pretty small for our requirements. A coffee shop near campus, or the student union, might be options. > 4. When I lived in an apartment, the apartment complex had a common room available at no charge, large enough for a good-size gathering, with some restrictions. But after 7 PM, the gate was closed and you had to buzz for admittance, a minor annoyance. Too unprofessional, IMO. I'd sooner have everyone to the house ;) > 5. When I lived in Silicon Valley, one of the Carls Jrs had a meeting room that they regularly made available to groups for meetings. Perhaps one or more fast food/restaurants would help out on their slow nights, if approached properly. We recently did Nello's Pizza in North Scottsdale. The turn-out was great, but Nellos had a few other large parties the same night at the same time, so we wound up waiting to be seated for a long time. That was just rotten timing. And they don't take reservations, either. There's a downtown Scottsdale Nello's now too, by the way. One of the reasons I suggested Nello's before was their good beer selection, with local micros on tap and about 20 beers in the cooler, but there are apparently surprisingly few beer drinkers in Phoenix.PM. > 6. I have no idea about how or how well the technology works, but would NetMeeting or something like it allow us to hold a virtual meeting ? If not, is there an entrepreneurial^H^H...^H^H, money-making possibility here, or an open source solution waiting for completion/contributions ? We're dabbling with doing audio recordings (should set up proper podcast feeds eventually) and I'm talking about doing video as well. There are a lot of Linux users in the group (looks pretty fifty-fifty between Linux and Windows), so if you say NetMeeting, you should probably say NetMeeting/ GnomeMeeting ;) We did have an IRC "virtual" meeting once, and turn-out was poor. > 7. If we were in some way allied with some other group, perhaps we could piggyback on their already-reserved space. Broadening the charter to combine with the PHP group that meets at Walt's TV (already a sizable group) might cross-pollinate both groups, altho that may have already happened. There was a Python group, but they seem to have disbanded/died. Perhaps they could be included. And maybe start a Ruby group, just for the extra weight on the letterhead. I don't want to redefine the group as being a splinter of another group (PLUG had also been suggested in the past), but I've been advocating coinciding meetings with other groups for just this effect -- cross-pollination. > > So, that's my thoughts. I've got emails out to Phx Public Library and Scottsdale Public Library for rates/availability/etc. I'll post more when/if I know more. -scott > > HTH, > > jrz > > _______________________________________________ > Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com > The most personalized portal on the Web! > > > _______________________________________________ > Phoenix-pm mailing list > Phoenix-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm _______________________________________________ Phoenix-pm mailing list Phoenix-pm at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm _______________________________________________ Phoenix-pm mailing list Phoenix-pm at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm From andypm at exiledplanet.org Mon Oct 24 22:43:02 2005 From: andypm at exiledplanet.org (Andrew Johnson) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:43:02 +0000 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... Message-ID: <20051025054431.CWSC16347.fed1rmmtao07.cox.net@COM> "Location is just off I-10 & Ray Rd. so a bit South for some of you" is like saying "Phoenix is a little warm in the summer." Though I do support the idea of multiple meeting locations. The valley is just so _big_, I think we have to face the fact that not everyone is going to be able to come to every meeting. However, if overall attendance goes up, IMHO it's worth it to get more people involved. Perhaps instead of a normal podcast or video we should look into "enhanced podcasts" for the meetings. These are audio tracks with slides/screenshots attached. I'm not clear on the format specifics yet. Worst case scenario, we could just post an MP3 w/a slideshow in an appropriate format (PDF?). It would require a relatively quiet meeting place, though. [aj] "Metz, Bobby W, WCS" wrote: __________ >I'll ask my employer as well. Security is a bit of a hassle and of >course the bathrooms are behind locked doors, so you'll have to hold it, >but I'll ask anyway. Location is just off I-10 & Ray Rd. so a bit South >for some of you. > >Bobby > >-----Original Message----- >From: phoenix-pm-bounces at pm.org [mailto:phoenix-pm-bounces at pm.or ]On >Behalf Of Scott Walters >Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 12:00 PM >To: John Zugel >Cc: phoenix-pm at pm.org >Subject: Re: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... > > >Hi John, > >There are a lot of good ideas in here. Many of them have already >been pointed out at one time or another, or are actively being >considered, or have recently been done. > >I think Brock might just be holding out, trying to get proper >meeting space at ASU, or something else we've been talking about >doing for a while. And Phoenix.PM tends to organize meetings at >a leisurely pace. > >We certainly have meeting spaces we can use (see the Website at >phoenix.pm.org for a list of past locations), but we're trying to >circulate to more parts of the Valley to give more first-timers >an excuse to make a meeting, and we're looking for professional >digs to contrast the pizza joints, libraries, and coffee shops >we've been winding up at. > >Also, it's easier to consider specific options -- like the >George and Dragon pub in downtown Phoenix, or the Nello's in >downtown Scottsdale ;) > >Still, this is a good starting point for summerizing options. > >8. I'm pretty sure I can get some space (and a sponser) at Scottsdale >Community College, but I keep forgetting to ask. > >9. http://www.azontherocks.com -- how does Phoenix.PM feel about >having a rock-climbing social meeting? $20 gets you a gear rental >and a day pass, and they show you the ropes (har har har) too. >If we get about 8 people or so who want to do this, we can book >it as a party and save even more money. > >> 1. Most public libraries have meeting rooms, but they apparently >> charge for use, so depending on how flush we're feeling, this is >> a possibility. > >They did downtown Scottsdale's library recently, I think. I missed that >one. > >> 3. ASU's library has study rooms, but I don't know how large they are. >The library has never asked me for ID, but that may just be my >professorial (ie. unkempt) appearance. > >They're pretty small for our requirements. A coffee shop near campus, or > >the student union, might be options. > >> 4. When I lived in an apartment, the apartment complex had a common >room available at no charge, large enough for a good-size gathering, >with some restrictions. But after 7 PM, the gate was closed and you had >to buzz for admittance, a minor annoyance. > >Too unprofessional, IMO. I'd sooner have everyone to the house ;) > >> 5. When I lived in Silicon Valley, one of the Carls Jrs had a meeting >room that they regularly made available to groups for meetings. Perhaps >one or more fast food/restaurants would help out on their slow nights, >if approached properly. > >We recently did Nello's Pizza in North Scottsdale. The turn-out was >great, >but Nellos had a few other large parties the same night at the same >time, >so we wound up waiting to be seated for a long time. That was just >rotten >timing. And they don't take reservations, either. > >There's a downtown Scottsdale Nello's now too, by the way. > >One of the reasons I suggested Nello's before was their good beer >selection, >with local micros on tap and about 20 beers in the cooler, but there are >apparently surprisingly few beer drinkers in Phoenix.PM. > >> 6. I have no idea about how or how well the technology works, but >would NetMeeting or something like it allow us to hold a virtual meeting >? If not, is there an entrepreneurial^H^H...^H^H, money-making >possibility here, or an open source solution waiting for >completion/contributions ? > >We're dabbling with doing audio recordings (should set up proper podcast >feeds eventually) and I'm talking about doing video as well. There are a >lot of Linux users in the group (looks pretty fifty-fifty between Linux >and Windows), so if you say NetMeeting, you should probably say >NetMeeting/ >GnomeMeeting ;) > >We did have an IRC "virtual" meeting once, and turn-out was poor. > >> 7. If we were in some way allied with some other group, perhaps we >could piggyback on their already-reserved space. Broadening the charter >to combine with the PHP group that meets at Walt's TV (already a sizable >group) might cross-pollinate both groups, altho that may have already >happened. There was a Python group, but they seem to have >disbanded/died. Perhaps they could be included. And maybe start a Ruby >group, just for the extra weight on the letterhead. > >I don't want to redefine the group as being a splinter of another group >(PLUG had also >been suggested in the past), but I've been advocating coinciding >meetings with other >groups for just this effect -- cross-pollination. >> >> So, that's my thoughts. I've got emails out to Phx Public Library and >Scottsdale Public Library for rates/availability/etc. I'll post more >when/if I know more. > >-scott > >> >> HTH, >> >> jrz >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com >> The most personalized portal on the Web! >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Phoenix-pm mailing list >> Phoenix-pm at pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm >_______________________________________________ >Phoenix-pm mailing list >Phoenix-pm at pm.org >http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm >_______________________________________________ >Phoenix-pm mailing list >Phoenix-pm at pm.org >http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm From awwaiid at thelackthereof.org Mon Oct 24 22:51:58 2005 From: awwaiid at thelackthereof.org (Brock) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:51:58 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... In-Reply-To: <01D5341D04A2E64AB9B3457690473367AACED3@OCCLUST01EVS1.ugd.att.com> References: <01D5341D04A2E64AB9B3457690473367AACED3@OCCLUST01EVS1.ugd.att.com> Message-ID: <20051025055158.GR7251@thelackthereof.org> I for one am happy to come down there (this is in or near Ahwatukee). How about others? I know some might not be able to come, but thats what floating meetings are for! So yes, Bobby, please find out about internet. We love internet. I'm still waiting for a reply from SCC contact, I'll send a reminder to him tomorrow. I'm also talking to Der Hans about his friends at the Sequoia Charter School, who apparently have locations spread throughout the valley and like us open-source types. --Brock On 2005.10.24.14.44, Metz, Bobby W, WCS wrote: | If no one minds coming to 50th St. & Ray Rd just off I-10, we can have a | meeting where I work. Large room for presentations. I'll work on | getting Inet access if you think we'd like to use this...not sure if | it's active in the room. | | Bobby From awwaiid at thelackthereof.org Mon Oct 24 23:04:36 2005 From: awwaiid at thelackthereof.org (Brock) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:04:36 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... In-Reply-To: <20051025054431.CWSC16347.fed1rmmtao07.cox.net@COM> References: <20051025054431.CWSC16347.fed1rmmtao07.cox.net@COM> Message-ID: <20051025060436.GT7251@thelackthereof.org> vnc2swf.py Lets me attach audio to screen captures. I love screenshot movies, have I mentioned that? There are some .oggs of the last meeting on the website, though they seem to get cut off and are a bit too-high of quality (cutting them back to 16 or 8-bit would decrease the size significantly, while remaining quite listenable I believe). They were recorded in the noisy atmosphere of CounterCulture, but turned out really well (thanks Scott!). --Brock On 2005.10.25.05.43, Andrew Johnson wrote: | "Location is just off I-10 & Ray Rd. so a bit South for | some of you" is like saying "Phoenix is a little warm in | the summer." Though I do support the idea of multiple meeting | locations. The valley is just so _big_, I think we have | to face the fact that not everyone is going to be able to | come to every meeting. However, if overall attendance goes | up, IMHO it's worth it to get more people involved. | | Perhaps instead of a normal podcast or video we should look | into "enhanced podcasts" for the meetings. These are audio | tracks with slides/screenshots attached. I'm not clear | on the format specifics yet. Worst case scenario, we could | just post an MP3 w/a slideshow in an appropriate format | (PDF?). It would require a relatively quiet meeting place, | though. | | [aj] From awwaiid at thelackthereof.org Mon Oct 24 23:01:08 2005 From: awwaiid at thelackthereof.org (Brock) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:01:08 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... In-Reply-To: <20051021190015.GP15273@illogics.org> References: <20051021181335.60E6BC14D6@xprdmailfe25.nwk.excite.com> <20051021190015.GP15273@illogics.org> Message-ID: <20051025060108.GS7251@thelackthereof.org> On 2005.10.21.12.00, Scott Walters wrote: | 9. http://www.azontherocks.com -- how does Phoenix.PM feel about | having a rock-climbing social meeting? $20 gets you a gear rental | and a day pass, and they show you the ropes (har har har) too. | If we get about 8 people or so who want to do this, we can book | it as a party and save even more money. I've never been rock-climbing, but would be happy to try. You organize it and count me in :) | > 1. Most public libraries have meeting rooms, but they apparently | > charge for use, so depending on how flush we're feeling, this is | > a possibility. | | They did downtown Scottsdale's library recently, I think. I missed that one. It worked out really well but costs $30 per session. If someone else wants to donate some $$ then we can go back there (other libraries offer similar deals at similar prices. They are much cheaper for official nonprofits, but The Perl Foundation didn't respond to my inquiries about us falling under them. I have a nonprofit of my own, but the paperwork hasn't gone through yet). | > 3. ASU's library has study rooms, but I don't know how large they are. The library has never asked me for ID, but that may just be my professorial (ie. unkempt) appearance. | | They're pretty small for our requirements. A coffee shop near campus, or | the student union, might be options. Ya. | > 4. When I lived in an apartment, the apartment complex had a common room available at no charge, large enough for a good-size gathering, with some restrictions. But after 7 PM, the gate was closed and you had to buzz for admittance, a minor annoyance. | | Too unprofessional, IMO. I'd sooner have everyone to the house ;) I agree. | > 5. When I lived in Silicon Valley, one of the Carls Jrs had a meeting room that they regularly made available to groups for meetings. Perhaps one or more fast food/restaurants would help out on their slow nights, if approached properly. | | We recently did Nello's Pizza in North Scottsdale. The turn-out was great, | but Nellos had a few other large parties the same night at the same time, | so we wound up waiting to be seated for a long time. That was just rotten | timing. And they don't take reservations, either. | | There's a downtown Scottsdale Nello's now too, by the way. | | One of the reasons I suggested Nello's before was their good beer selection, | with local micros on tap and about 20 beers in the cooler, but there are | apparently surprisingly few beer drinkers in Phoenix.PM. Carl's Jrs had meeting rooms? How weird. We will return to Nellos or similar before I miss a monthly meeting again, I promise. But for presentations and discussions everyone can hear it is a bit difficult in that sort of environment. | > 6. I have no idea about how or how well the technology works, but would NetMeeting or something like it allow us to hold a virtual meeting ? If not, is there an entrepreneurial^H^H...^H^H, money-making possibility here, or an open source solution waiting for completion/contributions ? | | We're dabbling with doing audio recordings (should set up proper podcast | feeds eventually) and I'm talking about doing video as well. There are a | lot of Linux users in the group (looks pretty fifty-fifty between Linux | and Windows), so if you say NetMeeting, you should probably say NetMeeting/ | GnomeMeeting ;) | | We did have an IRC "virtual" meeting once, and turn-out was poor. Yeah... thats what perlmonks is for! More or less. I think that at this point I've worked out the technology for audio and screen-capture-video recordings to go up after a meeting (had a glich in the last one that kept it from working, but figured it out now). | > 7. If we were in some way allied with some other group, perhaps we could piggyback on their already-reserved space. Broadening the charter to combine with the PHP group that meets at Walt's TV (already a sizable group) might cross-pollinate both groups, altho that may have already happened. There was a Python group, but they seem to have disbanded/died. Perhaps they could be included. And maybe start a Ruby group, just for the extra weight on the letterhead. | | I don't want to redefine the group as being a splinter of another group (PLUG had also | been suggested in the past), but I've been advocating coinciding meetings with other | groups for just this effect -- cross-pollination. The PLUG (http://plug.phoenix.az.us/) Developers meeting is Thursday November 3rd! Once again I plan on going... though I planned on going for the last three months and haven't yet. AzPHP (http://azphp.org) is tomorrow night. Any other cool developer-oriented meetings in the valley? PLUG-DEV invites us to do perl presentations, they are getting tired of java people dominating their discussions :) --Brock From andypm at exiledplanet.org Tue Oct 25 00:47:25 2005 From: andypm at exiledplanet.org (Andrew Johnson) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:47:25 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... In-Reply-To: <20051025060436.GT7251@thelackthereof.org> References: <20051025054431.CWSC16347.fed1rmmtao07.cox.net@COM> <20051025060436.GT7251@thelackthereof.org> Message-ID: <435DE30D.30807@exiledplanet.org> A little bit more research reveals to me that the "enhanced podcast" concept, while a nice one, is probably too proprietary to be useful for our group. (Specially, it's an Apple iTunes/iPod technology, wrapped in their AAC file format.) However, I have viewed SWF audio+slideshows to good effect, so perhaps that route would be more acceptable, especially since it seems Brock is already familiar with it. SWF players (including the highly annoying Macromedia Flash) are more ubiquitous than iTunes, and the SWF format is at least partially open. [aj] Brock wrote: >vnc2swf.py Lets me attach audio to screen captures. I love screenshot >movies, have I mentioned that? There are some .oggs of the last meeting >on the website, though they seem to get cut off and are a bit too-high >of quality (cutting them back to 16 or 8-bit would decrease the size >significantly, while remaining quite listenable I believe). They were >recorded in the noisy atmosphere of CounterCulture, but turned out >really well (thanks Scott!). > >--Brock > >On 2005.10.25.05.43, Andrew Johnson wrote: >| "Location is just off I-10 & Ray Rd. so a bit South for >| some of you" is like saying "Phoenix is a little warm in >| the summer." Though I do support the idea of multiple meeting >| locations. The valley is just so _big_, I think we have >| to face the fact that not everyone is going to be able to >| come to every meeting. However, if overall attendance goes >| up, IMHO it's worth it to get more people involved. >| >| Perhaps instead of a normal podcast or video we should look >| into "enhanced podcasts" for the meetings. These are audio >| tracks with slides/screenshots attached. I'm not clear >| on the format specifics yet. Worst case scenario, we could >| just post an MP3 w/a slideshow in an appropriate format >| (PDF?). It would require a relatively quiet meeting place, >| though. >| >| [aj] > > From awwaiid at thelackthereof.org Tue Oct 25 08:09:20 2005 From: awwaiid at thelackthereof.org (Brock) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:09:20 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] [gdt@deru.com: Re: Perl Monger meetings at SCC] Message-ID: <20051025150920.GA30198@thelackthereof.org> Any objections to meeting at SCC on Wed Nov 16 @7:00pm? If I don't hear some objections soon I'm going to reserve the location. I don't know about amenities like inernet, but we can deal with whatever they've got. --Brock ----- Forwarded message from "Gerald D. Thurman" ----- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:55:37 -0700 (MST) From: "Gerald D. Thurman" To: Brock Subject: Re: Perl Monger meetings at SCC On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Brock wrote: > Wed Nov 16 @7:00pm would both be great. > I have a room available -- should I book it? Thurman ----- End forwarded message ----- From scott at illogics.org Tue Oct 25 09:21:57 2005 From: scott at illogics.org (Scott Walters) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:21:57 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] [gdt@deru.com: Re: Perl Monger meetings at SCC] In-Reply-To: <20051025150920.GA30198@thelackthereof.org> References: <20051025150920.GA30198@thelackthereof.org> Message-ID: <20051025162157.GZ15273@illogics.org> As a suggestion, take a tally of people that think they can make it rather than a tally of people who think they can't. It's always the case that more people won't be able to make it than will, and experience has shown that catering to a few who can't make it makes for smaller meetings. We seem to sometimes have these senarios where Fred can't make it as Wed at 7pm, but instead asks that the meeting be held on Saturday at 5am in Guadalupe, and these suggestions are given entirely too much consideration. Anyway, that dumb example illustrates the fallacy. Also, people who can't make it any random night are also more likely to not be able to make it on the night they thought they could, so Fred wouldn't even show up after he got the meeting changed. -scott On 0, Brock wrote: > > Any objections to meeting at SCC on Wed Nov 16 @7:00pm? If I don't hear > some objections soon I'm going to reserve the location. I don't know > about amenities like inernet, but we can deal with whatever they've got. > > --Brock > > ----- Forwarded message from "Gerald D. Thurman" ----- > > Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:55:37 -0700 (MST) > From: "Gerald D. Thurman" > To: Brock > Subject: Re: Perl Monger meetings at SCC > > On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Brock wrote: > > > Wed Nov 16 @7:00pm would both be great. > > > I have a room available -- should I book it? > > Thurman > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > _______________________________________________ > Phoenix-pm mailing list > Phoenix-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm From bwmetz at att.com Tue Oct 25 09:17:44 2005 From: bwmetz at att.com (Metz, Bobby W, WCS) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:17:44 -0500 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... Message-ID: <01D5341D04A2E64AB9B3457690473367AAD668@OCCLUST01EVS1.ugd.att.com> I'll work it out. Due to the convenience factor, we can probably expect two to four others from my company to attend as well. B -----Original Message----- From: Brock [mailto:awwaiid at thelackthereof.org] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 10:52 PM To: Metz, Bobby W, WCS Cc: phoenix-pm at pm.org Subject: Re: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting room possibilities... I for one am happy to come down there (this is in or near Ahwatukee). How about others? I know some might not be able to come, but thats what floating meetings are for! So yes, Bobby, please find out about internet. We love internet. I'm still waiting for a reply from SCC contact, I'll send a reminder to him tomorrow. I'm also talking to Der Hans about his friends at the Sequoia Charter School, who apparently have locations spread throughout the valley and like us open-source types. --Brock On 2005.10.24.14.44, Metz, Bobby W, WCS wrote: | If no one minds coming to 50th St. & Ray Rd just off I-10, we can have a | meeting where I work. Large room for presentations. I'll work on | getting Inet access if you think we'd like to use this...not sure if | it's active in the room. | | Bobby From awwaiid at thelackthereof.org Tue Oct 25 10:01:56 2005 From: awwaiid at thelackthereof.org (Brock) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:01:56 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] [gdt@deru.com: Re: Perl Monger meetings at SCC] In-Reply-To: <20051025162157.GZ15273@illogics.org> References: <20051025150920.GA30198@thelackthereof.org> <20051025162157.GZ15273@illogics.org> Message-ID: <20051025170156.GB30198@thelackthereof.org> Excellent suggestion, thanks. Who can come to SCC on Wed Nov 16 @7:00pm? I certainly can :) Of course, as a self-suggestion, the topic itself might be a factor for some folks. Thus lets also have a topic discussion. I offer to do a beginner level "From Packages to Objects -- Introduction to Objects in Perl" (though I may need some help prepping for best-practice things). --Brock On 2005.10.25.09.21, Scott Walters wrote: | As a suggestion, take a tally of people that think they can make it rather | than a tally of people who think they can't. It's always the case that | more people won't be able to make it than will, and experience has shown that | catering to a few who can't make it makes for smaller meetings. We seem | to sometimes have these senarios where Fred can't make it as Wed at 7pm, but | instead asks that the meeting be held on Saturday at 5am in Guadalupe, and | these suggestions are given entirely too much consideration. Anyway, that dumb | example illustrates the fallacy. Also, people who can't make it any random night | are also more likely to not be able to make it on the night they thought they | could, so Fred wouldn't even show up after he got the meeting changed. | | -scott | | | On 0, Brock wrote: | > | > Any objections to meeting at SCC on Wed Nov 16 @7:00pm? If I don't hear | > some objections soon I'm going to reserve the location. I don't know | > about amenities like inernet, but we can deal with whatever they've got. | > | > --Brock | > | > ----- Forwarded message from "Gerald D. Thurman" ----- | > | > Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:55:37 -0700 (MST) | > From: "Gerald D. Thurman" | > To: Brock | > Subject: Re: Perl Monger meetings at SCC | > | > On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Brock wrote: | > | > > Wed Nov 16 @7:00pm would both be great. | > > | > I have a room available -- should I book it? | > | > Thurman | > | > ----- End forwarded message ----- | > | > _______________________________________________ | > Phoenix-pm mailing list | > Phoenix-pm at pm.org | > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm From scott at illogics.org Tue Oct 25 10:35:24 2005 From: scott at illogics.org (Scott Walters) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:35:24 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] [gdt@deru.com: Re: Perl Monger meetings at SCC] In-Reply-To: <20051025170156.GB30198@thelackthereof.org> References: <20051025150920.GA30198@thelackthereof.org> <20051025162157.GZ15273@illogics.org> <20051025170156.GB30198@thelackthereof.org> Message-ID: <20051025173523.GA15273@illogics.org> I think I can make it. Given the excellence of your last intro talk, I strongly encourage you to do the swf mp3+slides trick. What happened with the vnc2flash trick, anyway? I could present some fun, miscellanous intermediate thingie, but I'm interested to see what else is out there. -scott On 0, Brock wrote: > > Excellent suggestion, thanks. > > Who can come to SCC on Wed Nov 16 @7:00pm? I certainly can :) > > Of course, as a self-suggestion, the topic itself might be a factor for > some folks. Thus lets also have a topic discussion. I offer to do a > beginner level "From Packages to Objects -- Introduction to Objects in > Perl" (though I may need some help prepping for best-practice things). > > --Brock > > On 2005.10.25.09.21, Scott Walters wrote: > | As a suggestion, take a tally of people that think they can make it rather > | than a tally of people who think they can't. It's always the case that > | more people won't be able to make it than will, and experience has shown that > | catering to a few who can't make it makes for smaller meetings. We seem > | to sometimes have these senarios where Fred can't make it as Wed at 7pm, but > | instead asks that the meeting be held on Saturday at 5am in Guadalupe, and > | these suggestions are given entirely too much consideration. Anyway, that dumb > | example illustrates the fallacy. Also, people who can't make it any random night > | are also more likely to not be able to make it on the night they thought they > | could, so Fred wouldn't even show up after he got the meeting changed. > | > | -scott > | > | > | On 0, Brock wrote: > | > > | > Any objections to meeting at SCC on Wed Nov 16 @7:00pm? If I don't hear > | > some objections soon I'm going to reserve the location. I don't know > | > about amenities like inernet, but we can deal with whatever they've got. > | > > | > --Brock > | > > | > ----- Forwarded message from "Gerald D. Thurman" ----- > | > > | > Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:55:37 -0700 (MST) > | > From: "Gerald D. Thurman" > | > To: Brock > | > Subject: Re: Perl Monger meetings at SCC > | > > | > On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Brock wrote: > | > > | > > Wed Nov 16 @7:00pm would both be great. > | > > > | > I have a room available -- should I book it? > | > > | > Thurman > | > > | > ----- End forwarded message ----- > | > > | > _______________________________________________ > | > Phoenix-pm mailing list > | > Phoenix-pm at pm.org > | > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm > _______________________________________________ > Phoenix-pm mailing list > Phoenix-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm From andypm at exiledplanet.org Tue Oct 25 12:49:00 2005 From: andypm at exiledplanet.org (andypm@exiledplanet.org) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:49:00 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] [gdt@deru.com: Re: Perl Monger meetings at SCC] Message-ID: <9432614.1130269802146.JavaMail.teamon@b217.teamon.com> Count me in, if I can find the place. :-) [aj] Brock wrote: __________ > >Excellent suggestion, thanks. > >Who can come to SCC on Wed Nov 16 @7:00pm? I certainly can :) > >Of course, as a self-suggestion, the topic itself might be a factor for >some folks. Thus lets also have a topic discussion. I offer to do a >beginner level "From Packages to Objects -- Introduction to Objects in >Perl" (though I may need some help prepping for best-practice things). > >--Brock > >On 2005.10.25.09.21, Scott Walters wrote: >| As a suggestion, take a tally of people that think they can make it rather >| than a tally of people who think they can't. It's always the case that >| more people won't be able to make it than will, and experience has shown that >| catering to a few who can't make it makes for smaller meetings. We seem >| to sometimes have these senarios where Fred can't make it as Wed at 7pm, but >| instead asks that the meeting be held on Saturday at 5am in Guadalupe, and >| these suggestions are given entirely too much consideration. Anyway, that dumb >| example illustrates the fallacy. Also, people who can't make it any random night >| are also more likely to not be able to make it on the night they thought they >| could, so Fred wouldn't even show up after he got the meeting changed. >| >| -scott >| >| >| On 0, Brock wrote: >| > >| > Any objections to meeting at SCC on Wed Nov 16 @7:00pm? If I don't hear >| > some objections soon I'm going to reserve the location. I don't know >| > about amenities like inernet, but we can deal with whatever they've got. >| > >| > --Brock >| > >| > ----- Forwarded message from "Gerald D. Thurman" ----- >| > >| > Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:55:37 -0700 (MST) >| > From: "Gerald D. Thurman" >| > To: Brock >| > Subject: Re: Perl Monger meetings at SCC >| > >| > On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Brock wrote: >| > >| > > Wed Nov 16 @7:00pm would both be great. >| > > >| > I have a room available -- should I book it? >| > >| > Thurman >| > >| > ----- End forwarded message ----- >| > >| > _______________________________________________ >| > Phoenix-pm mailing list >| > Phoenix-pm at pm.org >| > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm >_______________________________________________ >Phoenix-pm mailing list >Phoenix-pm at pm.org >http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm From jzugel at excite.com Wed Oct 26 13:42:28 2005 From: jzugel at excite.com (John Zugel) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:42:28 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting at SCC on Wednesday 16 Nov... Message-ID: <20051026204228.41036B6C4@xprdmailfe19.nwk.excite.com> Count me in. John Zugel _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! From benjamin.trussell at asu.edu Thu Oct 27 00:42:34 2005 From: benjamin.trussell at asu.edu (Ben) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:42:34 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] Meeting at SCC on Wednesday 16 Nov... In-Reply-To: <20051026204228.41036B6C4@xprdmailfe19.nwk.excite.com> References: <20051026204228.41036B6C4@xprdmailfe19.nwk.excite.com> Message-ID: <436084EA.3040405@asu.edu> Count me in also. Ben John Zugel wrote: >Count me in. > >John Zugel > >_______________________________________________ >Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com >The most personalized portal on the Web! > > >_______________________________________________ >Phoenix-pm mailing list >Phoenix-pm at pm.org >http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm > > From Peter.Loo at bannerhealth.com Fri Oct 28 15:24:21 2005 From: Peter.Loo at bannerhealth.com (Loo, Peter) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:24:21 -0700 Subject: [Phoenix-pm] DBI::ODBC and NET::FTP modules Message-ID: <54B11B8F032D284890092AC8E3194BC22BAC6D@PHX01067.bhs.bannerhealth.com> Hi All, I have just downloaded the two PERL modules from search.cpan.org and am attempting to install them on a Windows 2003 server. I am not too familiar with Windows so can someone please tell me where I can find the Unix "make" equivalent to complete my installation. I completed the run of "perl Makefile.PL" and the output is as follows: D:\perl\lib\DBI-1.48>perl Makefile.PL *** You are using a perl configured with threading enabled. *** You should be aware that using multiple threads is *** not recommended for production environments. *** Note: The optional PlRPC-modules (RPC::PlServer etc) are not installed. If you want to use the DBD::Proxy driver and DBI::ProxyServer modules, then you'll need to install the RPC::PlServer, RPC::PlClient, Storable and Net::Daemon modules. The CPAN Bundle::DBI may help you. You can install them any time after installing the DBI. You do *not* need these modules for typical DBI usage. Optional modules are available from any CPAN mirror, in particular http://search.cpan.org/ http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/by-module ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module *** You're using Microsoft Visual C++ compiler but the LIB and INCLUDE environme nt variables are not both set. If you have 'unresolved external symbol' errors during linking, run the vcvars32.bat batch file to set up your LIB and INCLUDE environment variables, and try again. A copy of vcvars32.bat can typically be found in the following directories under your Visual Studio install directory: Visual C++ 6.0: vc98\bin Visual Studio .NET: vc7\bin Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_01basics.t Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_02dbidrv.t Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_03handle.t Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_04mods.t Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_05thrclone.t (use threads) Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_06attrs.t Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_07kids.t Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_08keeperr.t Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_09trace.t Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_10examp.t Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_11fetch.t Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_14utf8.t Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_15array.t Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_20meta.t Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_30subclass.t Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_40profile.t Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_41prof_dump.t Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_42prof_data.t Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_50dbm.t Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_60preparse.t Creating DBI::PurePerl test variant: t/zvpp_80proxy.t Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Warning: By default new modules are installed into your 'site_lib' directories. Since site_lib directories come after the normal library directories you must delete old DBI files and directories from your 'privlib' and 'archlib' directories and their auto subdirectories. Reinstall DBI and your DBD::* drivers after deleting the old directories. Here's a list of probable old files and directories: D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48 D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/Changes D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/DBI.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/DBI.xs D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/DBIXS.h D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/Driver.xst D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/Driver_xst.h D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/MANIFEST D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/META.yml D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/Makefile.PL D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/Perl.xs D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/README D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/Roadmap.pod D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/ToDo D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/dbd_xsh.h D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/dbi_sql.h D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/dbipport.h D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/dbiprof.PL D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/dbiproxy.PL D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/dbivport.h D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/ex D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/ex/perl_dbi_nulls_test.pl D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/Bundle D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/Bundle/DBI.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBD D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBD/DBM.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBD/ExampleP.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBD/File.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBD/NullP.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBD/Proxy.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBD/Sponge.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/Const D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/Const/GetInfo D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/Const/GetInfo/ANSI.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/Const/GetInfo/ODBC.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/Const/GetInfoReturn.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/Const/GetInfoType.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/DBD D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/DBD.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/DBD/Metadata.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/FAQ.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/Profile.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/ProfileData.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/ProfileDumper D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/ProfileDumper.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/ProfileDumper/Apache.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/ProxyServer.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/PurePerl.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/SQL D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/SQL/Nano.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/DBI/W32ODBC.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/Win32 D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/lib/Win32/DBIODBC.pm D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/01basics.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/02dbidrv.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/03handle.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/04mods.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/05thrclone.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/06attrs.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/07kids.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/08keeperr.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/09trace.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/10examp.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/11fetch.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/14utf8.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/15array.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/20meta.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/30subclass.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/40profile.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/41prof_dump.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/42prof_data.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/50dbm.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/60preparse.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/80proxy.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/pod.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_01basics.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_02dbidrv.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_03handle.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_04mods.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_05thrclone.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_06attrs.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_07kids.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_08keeperr.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_09trace.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_10examp.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_11fetch.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_14utf8.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_15array.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_20meta.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_30subclass.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_40profile.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_41prof_dump.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_42prof_data.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_50dbm.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_60preparse.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/t/zvpp_80proxy.t D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/test.pl D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.48/typemap I see you're using perl 5.008004 on MSWin32-x86-multi-thread, okay. Remember to actually *read* the README file! Use 'make' to build the software (dmake or nmake on Windows). Then 'make test' to execute self tests. Then 'make install' to install the DBI and then delete this working directory before unpacking and building any DBD::* drivers. Windows users need to use the correct make command. That may be nmake or dmake depending on which Perl you are using. If using the Win32 ActiveState build then it is recommended that you use the ppm utility to fetch and install a prebuilt DBI instead. Writing Makefile for DBI Thank you. Peter Loo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/phoenix-pm/attachments/20051028/786aa03a/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 2371 bytes Desc: Pie Charts Bkgrd.JPG Url : http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/phoenix-pm/attachments/20051028/786aa03a/attachment.jpe