From gaurav at ggvaidya.com  Fri Dec  5 01:57:54 2008
From: gaurav at ggvaidya.com (Gaurav Vaidya)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:57:54 +0800
Subject: [singapore-pm] Fwd: [pm_groups] 2009 QA Hackathon - The Dates
In-Reply-To: <20081205083630.GN26014@smtp.blueyonder.co.uk>
References: <20081205083630.GN26014@smtp.blueyonder.co.uk>
Message-ID: <2665a3df0812050157s744659a5sd61bad6154930e35@mail.gmail.com>

Hey everybody,

Thought I'd pass this along, in case anybody's interested/going to be
in the UK at around that time.

cheers,
Gaurav

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Barbie <barbie at missbarbell.co.uk>
Date: 2008/12/5
Subject: [pm_groups] 2009 QA Hackathon - The Dates
To: pm_groups at pm.org


Following the initial announcement at YAPC::Europe [1], Birmingham Perl
Mongers [2] are pleased to announce that the 2009 QA Hackathon will be
held over 3 days:

*** Saturday March 28th to Monday March 30th 2009 ***

Our wiki - http://qa-hackathon.org - is now live, so please feel free to
sign-up and add details about yourself if you want to be involved,
suggest projects or people for the event. We are hoping to attract about
15-20 people with plans to hack on various QA/testing projects, so if
you think you can contribute something, or would like to nominate
someone, please feel free to update the Attendees [4] page with contact
details, etc. Also if you think a particular project should be covered,
please add a page for it and tell us about it.

We are also looking for sponsors [5] for the event, and although we have
already contacted a few, we are eager to have more in the event we are
able to provide funding for more attendees, particularly from overseas.
If you have a contact for us, please send an email to
organisers at qa-hackathon.org with details. We are delighted to have $foo
Magazin [6] sponsor us, as well Birmingham Perl Mongers [2], who are
underwriting the complete event.

Negotiations for venue and accommodation are ongoing, so we'll make
those known once they are finalised. We would like to have everyone
together, so if you're planning to bring your partner/family with you,
please add a note to your entry in the Attendees [4] page, so we can
make sure we allocate rooms for everyone. Expect more news regarding the
venue and accommodation in the new year.

[1] http://www.yapceurope2008.org
[2] http://birmingham.pm.org/
[3] http://qa-hackathon.org
[4] http://qa-hackathon.org/wiki/Attendees
[5] http://qa-hackathon.org/wiki/Sponsors
[6] http://www.perl-magazin.de/

Thanks,
The Organisers.
--
2009 QA Hackathon - http://qa-hackathon.org

From gaurav at ggvaidya.com  Sat Dec  6 07:32:47 2008
From: gaurav at ggvaidya.com (Gaurav Vaidya)
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 23:32:47 +0800
Subject: [singapore-pm] RFC: A "Singapore Perl Directory"?
Message-ID: <2665a3df0812060732gd58bab7q4ef433d468b460b4@mail.gmail.com>

Hey everybody,

I've been trying to come up with ways of finding the other Perl
programmers in Singapore (it can't just be the forty of us, right?).

What are your thoughts on assembling a Singapore Perl Directory? A
small database of companies using Perl in Singapore, maybe with a
small blurb on what they use it for. It'll help Perl programmers look
for new jobs, reassure university and school-level Perl programmers
that jobs are available for them when they graduate, and be a
promotional tool for the language itself (look at all these cool
programs/websites/systems run by Perl!). And it'll be pretty easy to
do (I imagine a bunch of text files which are "processed" into a
WebMake template for our website).

I think the following fields will be appropriate:
- Company name
- Link to website
- Logo (must be small, size TBD)
- Blurb (what Perl is used for, how many people work on it, what
benefits it gives, why it was/is being used)

Let me know what you think. Barring any major arguments against, I'll
try and have a few entries up by next weekend.

cheers,
Gaurav

From gaurav at ggvaidya.com  Wed Dec 31 09:22:00 2008
From: gaurav at ggvaidya.com (Gaurav Vaidya)
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 01:22:00 +0800
Subject: [singapore-pm] Anybody working on Parrot?
Message-ID: <9D077042-846D-443C-9100-5151A8312658@ggvaidya.com>

Hey,

Are any of you working on/with Parrot? I've been playing around with  
trying to get some of the older language [1] to compile, and I'd  
really appreciate any pointers/tips on where to find useful  
documentation.

cheers,
Gaurav

[1] https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/Languages