How sad! I will have to miss this next meeting! Please try to have fun without me, somehow. <br><br>(p.s. Chris I still owe you a beer)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Scott McWhirter <span dir="ltr"><scott+<a href="http://vancouver.pm">vancouver.pm</a>@<a href="http://konobi.co.uk">konobi.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi all,<br>
<br>
Thanks to all who made it to the last meeting. The turnout was great and I<br>
believe everyone had an informative and enjoyable evening. Next we have our<br>
"Tools" topic night.<br>
<br>
NB: We're at a different venue this time, the details are below. Thanks muchly<br>
to Alex Krohn and the guys at Gossamer for use of their space.<br>
<br>
I must also ask people to remember that the meeting is at 7pm and that late<br>
arrivals can be very distracting to speakers. Can we please try to arrive as<br>
close to 7pm as possible (thanks).<br>
<br>
There are 3 talks lined up:<br>
<br>
* Luke Closs - "Introduction Git"<br>
NB: Luke requests that people bring their laptops with git installed<br>
<br>
* Jerome Pimmel - "Behaviour Driven Development"<br>
<br>
* Kevin Jones - "Introduction to Shindig"<br>
<br>
We also have several lightning talks lined up:<br>
<br>
* Michael Nachbaur - "Test::A8N for human-readable system tests"<br>
* Michael Nachbaur - "Using Git post-update hooks for live site deployments"<br>
* Scott McWhirter - "What is a lightning talk?"<br>
<br>
<< I believe Andy @ UBC offered to do a lightning talk, but I haven't<br>
been able to get a hold of his email, can you drop me a line if you get this in<br>
time, Andy? >><br>
<br>
If anyone feels like doing a lightning talk about any topic at all,<br>
please feel free<br>
to add yourself to the lineup on the wiki or drop me an email and I'll add you.<br>
<br>
!!! DIFFERENT VENUE !!!<br>
<br>
Gossamer Threads have graciously offered space for our meeting. Their office<br>
is located on the west side of Granville St close to the intersection with West<br>
Pender St on the 5th Floor of 455 Granville St.<br>
(Google map: <a href="http://xrl.us/bekhbb" target="_blank">http://xrl.us/bekhbb</a>)<br>
<br>
After-meeting drinks:<br>
<br>
I would like to try somewhere different again this month, but don't have any<br>
suggestions. It's open to the floor.<br>
<br>
Background on speakers:<br>
<br>
Luke - Local Vancouver perl hacker and juggler at large. Luke develops<br>
software for wiki group Socialtext and is active with groups such as<br>
Vancouver hackspace, FreeGeek and is the maintainer for the perl bindings<br>
for Selenium RC.<br>
<br>
Kevin - Local Vancouver perl hacker. Kevin works with Luke and several of<br>
the other Vancouver.pm members at Socialtext.<br>
<br>
Jerome - [TBF - will update when he's got the data]<br>
<br>
Other details:<br>
<br>
YAPC::NA<br>
It turns out that quite a few van.pm-ers are going to be attending the<br>
conference this year. If anyone else wishes to come along and travel<br>
as a group we'd be more than happy to share arrangements.<br>
Current details are on the wiki at <a href="http://xrl.us/bemtkc" target="_blank">http://xrl.us/bemtkc</a><br>
<br>
The Vancouver.pm wiki is available at <a href="http://www.socialtext.net/vanpm/" target="_blank">http://www.socialtext.net/vanpm/</a><br>
or available through <a href="http://vancouver.pm.org" target="_blank">http://vancouver.pm.org</a><br>
<br>
I have also set up a LinkedIn Vancouver Perl Mongers group available here:<br>
<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1756057" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1756057</a><br>
<br>
thanks,<br>
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<br>
--<br>
-Scott McWhirter- | -konobi-<br>
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