From scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk Wed Jan 14 12:06:19 2009 From: scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk (Scott McWhirter) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:06:19 -0800 Subject: [Van-pm] Vancouver.pm Leadership Message-ID: Hi all, I'm just letting you know that as of today, I've taken over as leader of Vancouver Perl Mongers. Thanks muchly to Chris Simmons for his leadership until now! We've been rather bad at getting meetings going, both technical and social. I'm hoping to improve upon this. When I was down at PDX.pm a while back, I asked a bunch of questions about how they were able to maintain the velocity they had with their meetings and attendance. The answer was fairly obvious, but was good to hear. The key seems to be to make it regular and have a meeting no matter what. So from now on, Vancouver.pm meetings will be held on the "Second Thursday" of each month. Chris has said that Sophos would still be willing to host us and I'm hoping groups like Activestate and Gossamer Threads would be willing to help out if we were stuck from time to time. The aim will be to have technical talks at each of these meetings and a drink afterwards; if there are no technical talks, we'll have have a social meeting. For Feburary I have a talk that I want to give, Luke Closs wants to give a talk and I have a non-perl friend who would like to give a talk on something shiny. If anyone has anything cool, exciting or interesting that they would like to talk about, just let me know! I'd like to hear feeback from folks on any questions or suggestions they have. thanks! -- -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- Technology Consultant - Cloudtone Studios -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From phil123 at gmail.com Wed Jan 14 13:29:29 2009 From: phil123 at gmail.com (Phil Whelan) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:29:29 -0800 Subject: [Van-pm] Vancouver.pm Leadership In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9cafbc680901141329q1a979083x5b952d57558e945c@mail.gmail.com> Congratulations Scott! I'm looking forward to the regular meetings. Cheers, Phil On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Scott McWhirter wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm just letting you know that as of today, I've taken over as leader of > Vancouver Perl Mongers. Thanks muchly to Chris Simmons for his leadership > until now! > > We've been rather bad at getting meetings going, both technical and social. > I'm hoping to improve upon this. > > When I was down at PDX.pm a while back, I asked a bunch of questions about > how they were able to maintain the velocity they had with their meetings and > attendance. The answer was fairly obvious, but was good to hear. The key > seems to be to make it regular and have a meeting no matter what. > > So from now on, Vancouver.pm meetings will be held on the "Second Thursday" > of each month. Chris has said that Sophos would still be willing to host us > and I'm hoping groups like Activestate and Gossamer Threads would be willing > to help out if we were stuck from time to time. The aim will be to have > technical talks at each of these meetings and a drink afterwards; if there > are no technical talks, we'll have have a social meeting. > > For Feburary I have a talk that I want to give, Luke Closs wants to give a > talk and I have a non-perl friend who would like to give a talk on something > shiny. If anyone has anything cool, exciting or interesting that they would > like to talk about, just let me know! > > I'd like to hear feeback from folks on any questions or suggestions they > have. > > thanks! > > > -- > -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- > Technology Consultant - Cloudtone Studios > > _______________________________________________ > Vancouver-pm mailing list > Vancouver-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/vancouver-pm > -- Mobile: +1 778-233-4935 Website: http://philw.co.uk Skype: philwhelan76 Twitter: philwhln Email : phil123 at gmail.com iChat: philwhln at mac.com From lukecloss at gmail.com Wed Jan 14 13:51:27 2009 From: lukecloss at gmail.com (Luke Closs) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:51:27 -0800 Subject: [Van-pm] Vancouver.pm Leadership In-Reply-To: <9cafbc680901141329q1a979083x5b952d57558e945c@mail.gmail.com> References: <9cafbc680901141329q1a979083x5b952d57558e945c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Me too! Scott++ I'd like to get together for more informal hacking nights, where we could write code and plot against the ruby and python hackers. :) Luke On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Phil Whelan wrote: > Congratulations Scott! I'm looking forward to the regular meetings. > > Cheers, > Phil > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Scott McWhirter > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm just letting you know that as of today, I've taken over as leader of > > Vancouver Perl Mongers. Thanks muchly to Chris Simmons for his leadership > > until now! > > > > We've been rather bad at getting meetings going, both technical and > social. > > I'm hoping to improve upon this. > > > > When I was down at PDX.pm a while back, I asked a bunch of questions > about > > how they were able to maintain the velocity they had with their meetings > and > > attendance. The answer was fairly obvious, but was good to hear. The key > > seems to be to make it regular and have a meeting no matter what. > > > > So from now on, Vancouver.pm meetings will be held on the "Second > Thursday" > > of each month. Chris has said that Sophos would still be willing to host > us > > and I'm hoping groups like Activestate and Gossamer Threads would be > willing > > to help out if we were stuck from time to time. The aim will be to have > > technical talks at each of these meetings and a drink afterwards; if > there > > are no technical talks, we'll have have a social meeting. > > > > For Feburary I have a talk that I want to give, Luke Closs wants to give > a > > talk and I have a non-perl friend who would like to give a talk on > something > > shiny. If anyone has anything cool, exciting or interesting that they > would > > like to talk about, just let me know! > > > > I'd like to hear feeback from folks on any questions or suggestions they > > have. > > > > thanks! > > > > > > -- > > -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- > > Technology Consultant - Cloudtone Studios > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Vancouver-pm mailing list > > Vancouver-pm at pm.org > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/vancouver-pm > > > > > > -- > Mobile: +1 778-233-4935 > Website: http://philw.co.uk > Skype: philwhelan76 > Twitter: philwhln > Email : phil123 at gmail.com > iChat: philwhln at mac.com > _______________________________________________ > Vancouver-pm mailing list > Vancouver-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/vancouver-pm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alex at gossamer-threads.com Wed Jan 14 15:52:52 2009 From: alex at gossamer-threads.com (Alex Krohn) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:52:52 -0800 Subject: [Van-pm] Vancouver.pm Leadership In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20090114155006.155C.80590B96@gossamer-threads.com> Hi, > So from now on, Vancouver.pm meetings will be held on the "Second Thursday" > of each month. Chris has said that Sophos would still be willing to host us > and I'm hoping groups like Activestate and Gossamer Threads would be willing > to help out if we were stuck from time to time. Sure thing! We'd be happy to host every now and then. We're moving a few blocks to Granville Street at the end of the month into brand new digs. =) > For Feburary I have a talk that I want to give, Luke Closs wants to give a > talk and I have a non-perl friend who would like to give a talk on something > shiny. If anyone has anything cool, exciting or interesting that they would > like to talk about, just let me know! Sounds great! Cheers, Alex -- Alex Krohn From lukecloss at gmail.com Wed Jan 14 16:24:16 2009 From: lukecloss at gmail.com (Luke Closs) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:24:16 -0800 Subject: [Van-pm] re-hyping the hype machine Message-ID: hey, so i heard that 2009 is the year perl is making a huge comeback. how can we help? I have a vision: camelcasts Luke -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alex at gossamer-threads.com Wed Jan 14 16:27:33 2009 From: alex at gossamer-threads.com (Alex Krohn) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:27:33 -0800 Subject: [Van-pm] re-hyping the hype machine In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20090114162634.1579.80590B96@gossamer-threads.com> On Wed Jan 14 04:24:16, Luke Closs wrote: > so i heard that 2009 is the year perl is making a huge comeback. Well, I hear Perl 6 is due out at Christmas. =) Cheers, Alex -- Alex Krohn From jshirley at gmail.com Wed Jan 14 16:45:23 2009 From: jshirley at gmail.com (J. Shirley) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:45:23 -0800 Subject: [Van-pm] re-hyping the hype machine In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <756703690901141645p409d8729u329668989a356078@mail.gmail.com> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Luke Closs wrote: > hey, > > so i heard that 2009 is the year perl is making a huge comeback. > > how can we help? > > I have a vision: camelcasts > > Luke > I and several CPAN authors you may have heard of (mst, Marcus Ramberg) have banded together and formed a not-for-profit group based out of the UK (they let a silly American like me in as a board member... foolish brits) called Enlightened Perl. We're working towards marketing and showing that Perl is far from dead, and is in fact a brilliant language. We're doing this through marketing grants and pushing the agenda of an opinion (something the Perl community generally lacks, with TIMTOWTDI) Part of that opinion is recommending core modules to use, and backing them with intelligent reasoning as to why. Our current set consists most notably of Moose, Catalyst, DBIx::Class. The whole list is available from the http://www.enlightenedperl.org/ website and also from the affiliated Task::Kensho module that is available on CPAN now. We also have several other facets that are cooking up but still under development, and anybody who wants to participate is more than welcome. Some of the inter-community projects are a blogging contest of sorts, to get people blogging and deliver both non-monetary and monetary awards. My personal pet project is what I'm dubbing 52 Weeks of Perl, with the goal of getting Perl mentioned 52 times throughout the year in a major publication (either digital or print). We have a lot of ideas, and need even more hands to volunteer. If you are interested in being a part of a grassroots Perl effort please let me know, or hop on irc.perl.org and join #epo or our mailing list, with information at http://www.enlightenedperl.org/ Sorry if this sounds kinda canned and spammy, I honestly did just type this up without any forethought :) Thanks, -Jay From simmons.chris at gmail.com Wed Jan 14 17:06:50 2009 From: simmons.chris at gmail.com (Chris Simmons) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:06:50 -0800 Subject: [Van-pm] re-hyping the hype machine In-Reply-To: <756703690901141645p409d8729u329668989a356078@mail.gmail.com> References: <756703690901141645p409d8729u329668989a356078@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <625b0a180901141706m7c9a50b1i6ee04a581b1d173e@mail.gmail.com> Thanks Jay - that looks pretty awesome. It's good to have people you out there plugging the cause :) Luke - I'd be for getting together with you sometime and hashing out some camelcasts. -chris On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:45 PM, J. Shirley wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Luke Closs wrote: > > hey, > > > > so i heard that 2009 is the year perl is making a huge comeback. > > > > how can we help? > > > > I have a vision: camelcasts > > > > Luke > > > > I and several CPAN authors you may have heard of (mst, Marcus Ramberg) > have banded together and formed a not-for-profit group based out of > the UK (they let a silly American like me in as a board member... > foolish brits) called Enlightened Perl. > > We're working towards marketing and showing that Perl is far from > dead, and is in fact a brilliant language. We're doing this through > marketing grants and pushing the agenda of an opinion (something the > Perl community generally lacks, with TIMTOWTDI) > > Part of that opinion is recommending core modules to use, and backing > them with intelligent reasoning as to why. Our current set consists > most notably of Moose, Catalyst, DBIx::Class. The whole list is > available from the http://www.enlightenedperl.org/ website and also > from the affiliated Task::Kensho module that is available on CPAN now. > > We also have several other facets that are cooking up but still under > development, and anybody who wants to participate is more than > welcome. > > Some of the inter-community projects are a blogging contest of sorts, > to get people blogging and deliver both non-monetary and monetary > awards. My personal pet project is what I'm dubbing 52 Weeks of Perl, > with the goal of getting Perl mentioned 52 times throughout the year > in a major publication (either digital or print). > > We have a lot of ideas, and need even more hands to volunteer. If you > are interested in being a part of a grassroots Perl effort please let > me know, or hop on irc.perl.org and join #epo or our mailing list, > with information at http://www.enlightenedperl.org/ > > Sorry if this sounds kinda canned and spammy, I honestly did just type > this up without any forethought :) > > Thanks, > -Jay > _______________________________________________ > Vancouver-pm mailing list > Vancouver-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/vancouver-pm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk Wed Jan 28 12:42:07 2009 From: scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk (Scott McWhirter) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:42:07 -0800 Subject: [Van-pm] Tech Meeting, 12th February 2009 @ Sophos Message-ID: Hi All, The first meeting of 2009 will be held at Sophos on 12th February at 7pm. There are currently 3 talks lined up: * Scott McWhirter - "Perl, mongers and more" Quick talk about what's new and interesting in the perl world. Quick Q&A session about perl mongers. * Luke Closs - "Git backed up" Using git, Perl and OCaml to develop a backup solution. * TBC I have someone lined up, but just waiting on confirmation. Will send another mail when confirmed. If anyone has a quick 10-20 minute talk they would like to do, please feel free to let me know. Sophos have graciously offered space for our meeting. Their office is at 580 Granville Street in downtown Vancouver (Google map: http://xrl.us/beco9t). If people can let me know if they are coming I can let Sophos know how much space we require. Background on speakers: Scott - Local Vancouver contractor and consultant at Cloudtone Studios. Scott has been developing using Perl since 1998 and has been an active and contributing member of the perl community for many years. Scott also hails from former perl monger memberships at Belfast.pm and London.pm. Luke - Local Vancouver perl hacker and juggler at large. Luke develops software for wiki group Socialtext and is active with groups such as Vancouver hackspace, FreeGeek and is the maintainer for the perl bindings for Selenium RC. Luke also organizes impromtu "super happy dev house" hacking sessions (more on that when we hear from him). I have also set up a LinkedIn Vancouver Perl Mongers group available here: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1756057 thanks, -- -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: