[Van-pm] Reminder: Tech Meeting, 12th March 2009 @ Sophos

[Scott McWhirter]

Hey all,

Just a reminder that our March meeting is tomorrow night at 7pm at
Sophos (location details on the wiki).

We have three 20 minute talks being given and six lightning talks, so
it looks like it's going to be a good night.

See you all tomorrow night!


-- 
-Scott McWhirter- | -konobi-

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Scott McWhirter
<scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks to all for the awesome response to talk requests, it looks like
> it's going to be a great meeting, I'm really looking forward to it!
> Since the meeting is coming up on Thursday, here's a quick reminder
> along with some updates.
>
> There are 3 talks lined up:
>
> * Luke Closs - "Git backed up"
>    Using git, Perl and OCaml to develop a backup solution.
>
> * Robin Clarke - "An introduction to Catalyst"
>    Catalyst is a powerful MVC (Model, View, Controller) web framework
> which has allowed our team to work better in parallel and more
> effectively on our web application development.
>
> * Andreas Hernitscheck - "Object-Oriented XML-RPC Server on Linux with Perl"
>    A description of a possible way how to build a server for XML-RPC
> communication, especially how to solve the problem of keeping objects
> in memory and access them again by further calls from a client.
>
> We also have several lightning talks lined up:
>
> * Scott McWhirter - "Intro to Varnish"
> * Scott McWhirter - "Intro to AWS"
> * Chris Simmons - "Intro to Lean Development"
> * Luke Closs - "Intro to webhooks"
> * Luke Closs - "Hacking the Van.pm wiki"
> * Orlando Vazquez - "Distributed blender rendering with perl"
>
> If anyone feels like doing a lightning talk about any topic at all,
> please feel free
> to add yourself to the lineup on the wiki or drop me an email and I'll add you.
>
> Sophos have graciously offered space for our meeting. Their office is at 580
> Granville Street in downtown Vancouver (Google map: http://xrl.us/beco9t).
> Sophos is on the North Eastern corner of the Dunsmuir and Granville
> intersection. Their offices are above the shoppers drug mart, with the
> entrance to the left of the building.
>
> After-meeting drinks:
>
> Elephant and Castle is on the north western corner of the intersection
> at West Hastings St at Burrard St. (Google Map: http://xrl.us/behyq9).
> Please feel free to suggest alternate locations.
>
> Background on speakers:
>
> 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).
>
> Robin - Hailing from Ireland and after spending some time in Germany,
> has moved to Vancouver. Robin works as a software engineer working
> with Perl/MySQL in online marketing.
>
> Andreas - "I am just a developer, 33 years old from Munich and a guest
> to Vancouver for some days."
>
> Other details:
>
> The Vancouver.pm wiki is available at http://www.socialtext.net/vanpm/
> please feel free to edit away. Thanks to Luke Closs and Socialtext for
> hosting it for us. I am in the process of transferring
> http://vancouver.pm.org over to point at the wiki.
>
> I have also set up a LinkedIn Vancouver Perl Mongers group available here:
> http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1756057
>
> thanks,
>
>
> --
> -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi-
>