[Van-pm] Announcement: June Meeting

[Helen Cook]

Hello Everyone,

Our June meeting will be next week.  It's going to be a series of talks,
and should be quite interesting.  It would be great to get a rough
headcount, so please drop me a note if you plan on coming. 

http://vancouver.pm.org

When:  7:30 PM, Tuesday, June 12, 2005

Where: ActiveState/Sophos, 580 Granville Street
       http://maps.google.com/maps?q=580+Granville+St+Vancouver

       To be followed by an excursion to a nearby drinking establishment 
       for refreshments.  

Topics: Ken Simpson -- "New Open Source Voodoo from MailChannels"
        Helen Cook -- "Using Machine Learning to Tag Photos"
        Philippe Chiasson -- "Writing Tests with Apache::Test"

Speaker Bios:

Ken Simpson 

Ken's latest endeavour, MailChannels.com, plays some clever tricks with
dns, Apache and mod_perl to eliminate the false positive problem from
filtering email.  Previously, as a lead developer at ActiveState (now a
division of Sophos), Ken worked on core open source development tools
and technologies. Ken has an honours degree in computer engineering from
Simon Fraser University.

Helen Cook (http://flickr.com/photos/hvc)

Helen currently works on finding signal in noise for Memotrax.com.  She
was a lead programmer at mgrok Corporation from 2002 to 2003, and
developed video recognition technology to summarize sports games.
Helen's main interests are the encoding and visualization of information
in the context of human knowledge networks.  She received her BSc in
mathematics from UBC in 2002.  

Philippe Chiasson (http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/)

Philippe started working on the mod_perl project in 1998, writing some
Apache::* modules on CPAN and eventually started helping out with
mod_perl 1.0 & 2.0 development.  In 2005, he joined the ranks of
ActiveState's Perl Cult. He now spends a lot more time dealing with Perl
itself instead of working on high-traffic websites for TicketMaster.
Instead, he is now often busy building and debugging Perl things,
including Perl, mod_perl and all of CPAN (yes, all of it, regularly) on
a large variety of platforms.  Philippe is also the current maintainer
of mod_perl 1.0. 

--h