Just a reminder that our next meeting is this Thursday night!<br><br>I decided to do my Catalyst talk.<br><br>Hope to see you all there!<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:03 PM, 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>
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There are 2 talks lined up:<br>
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* Jeremy Stashewsky - "Introduction to TheSchwartz and Parallel::ForkManager"<br>
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* Scott McWhirter - "Catalyst, a prototype in a day"<br>
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We also have several lightning talks lined up:<br>
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* Aki Mimoto - TBD<br>
* Zach ??? - TBD (network device automated testing, iirc)<br>
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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>
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Venue:<br>
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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>
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After-meeting drinks:<br>
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>From now on, I think we'll be using the Elephant and Castle (this may change<br>
if that ends up being a game night).<br>
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Background on speakers:<br>
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Scott - Local Vancouver entrepreneur and consultant at Cloudtone Studios.<br>
Scott has been developing using Perl since 1998 and has been an active and<br>
contributing member of the perl community for many years.<br>
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Jeremy - Local Vancouver perl hacker and developer at Socialtext with primary<br>
interests in building web tools and working with FOSS and Linux environments.<br>
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Other details:<br>
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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>
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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>
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thanks,<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>-Scott McWhirter- | -Technology Consultant-<br>[ Cloudtone Studios - <a href="http://www.cloudtone.ca">http://www.cloudtone.ca</a> ]<br>