[Van-pm] Tech Meeting, 9th April 2009 @ Gossamer Threads, 7pm

[Christie Wilson]

How sad! I will have to miss this next meeting! Please try to have fun
without me, somehow.

(p.s. Chris I still owe you a beer)

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Scott McWhirter <scott+vancouver.pm@
konobi.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks to all who made it to the last meeting. The turnout was great and I
> believe everyone had an informative and enjoyable evening. Next we have our
> "Tools" topic night.
>
> NB: We're at a different venue this time, the details are below. Thanks
> muchly
> to Alex Krohn and the guys at Gossamer for use of their space.
>
> I must also ask people to remember that the meeting is at 7pm and that late
> arrivals can be very distracting to speakers. Can we please try to arrive
> as
> close to 7pm as possible (thanks).
>
> There are 3 talks lined up:
>
> * Luke Closs - "Introduction Git"
>   NB: Luke requests that people bring their laptops with git installed
>
> * Jerome Pimmel - "Behaviour Driven Development"
>
> * Kevin Jones - "Introduction to Shindig"
>
> We also have several lightning talks lined up:
>
> * Michael Nachbaur - "Test::A8N for human-readable system tests"
> * Michael Nachbaur - "Using Git post-update hooks for live site
> deployments"
> * Scott McWhirter - "What is a lightning talk?"
>
> << I believe Andy @ UBC offered to do a lightning talk, but I haven't
> been able to get a hold of his email, can you drop me a line if you get
> this in
> time, Andy? >>
>
> 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.
>
> !!! DIFFERENT VENUE !!!
>
> Gossamer Threads have graciously offered space for our meeting. Their
> office
> is located on the west side of Granville St close to the intersection with
> West
> Pender St on the 5th Floor of 455 Granville St.
> (Google map: http://xrl.us/bekhbb)
>
> After-meeting drinks:
>
> I would like to try somewhere different again this month, but don't have
> any
> suggestions. It's open to the floor.
>
> 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.
>
> Kevin - Local Vancouver perl hacker. Kevin works with Luke and several of
> the other Vancouver.pm members at Socialtext.
>
> Jerome - [TBF - will update when he's got the data]
>
> Other details:
>
> YAPC::NA
> It turns out that quite a few van.pm-ers are going to be attending the
> conference this year. If anyone else wishes to come along and travel
> as a group we'd be more than happy to share arrangements.
> Current details are on the wiki at http://xrl.us/bemtkc
>
> The Vancouver.pm wiki is available at http://www.socialtext.net/vanpm/
> or available through http://vancouver.pm.org
>
> I have also set up a LinkedIn Vancouver Perl Mongers group available here:
> http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1756057
>
> thanks,
>
>
> --
> -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi-
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