From grant at mclean.net.nz  Sun Mar  2 09:31:42 2008
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:31:42 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: [pm_groups] Summer of Code -- volunteers
	needed]
Message-ID: <1204479103.5378.0.camel@localhost.localdomain>

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing at gmail.com>
> To: pm_groups at pm.org
> Subject: [pm_groups] Summer of Code -- volunteers needed
> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 19:03:41 -0800
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Volunteer pledge drive!  Please forward this to your local PM groups.
> 
> TPF needs volunteers to make summer of code happen this year.  It sounds 
> like the administrators got stretched too thin in 2005 and 2006, and we 
> really didn't have ourselves together in 2007.  So, I'm proposing a 
> departmental structure under a TPF umbrella, which will localize the 
> cat-herding effects within various large projects (so far, parrot and 
> Catalyst appear to be on board with this.)  I would like to demonstrate 
> that we have our act together this year, so we need to get a solid pool 
> of administrative volunteers and mentors together before the 8th.
> 
> 
> Administrative needs:
> 
>   (Contact ewilhelm at cpan.org or join #soc on irc.perl.org.)
> 
>   * backup administrator (reduce the bus number)
> 
>   * Department heads for p5p, "modules", etc
> 
>   * Suggestions about department structure
> 
> 
> Mentors and project ideas needed:
> 
> We need to get these pages populated before March 8th or it is quite 
> likely to be a no-go.
>   
> Potential mentors, please add yourselves and your project ideas here:
> 
>   http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_mentors
>   http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects
> 
> 
> If you hate wikis as much as I do, please visit this handy form and I 
> will batch the wiki edits on your behalf.
> 
>   http://scratchcomputing.com/loveperlhatewiki.html
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric



From grant at mclean.net.nz  Tue Mar  4 01:30:24 2008
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:30:24 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program,
	February 22]
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-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Marsee Henon
> Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, February 22
> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:16:39 -0800
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> <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2008/02/05/using-xen-for-high-availabilty-clusters.html>
> 
> 
> ***Developing RESTful Web Services in Perl
> REST has become a widely used alternative to protocols such as SOAP,
> providing a simpler way to tell your server what you want to do without
> all that messy WSDL stuff. In this article, you'll see how to create a
> RESTful web service, using Perl.
> <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2008/02/19/developing-restful-web-services-in-perl.html>
> 
> 
> ***Music Technology at NAMM 2008
> Part 1: America's biggest musical instrument show debuted more high-tech
> wonders than ever this year. O'Reilly Digital Media prowled NAMM's five
> massive, noisy halls to bring back these high-tech hits.
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2008/01/24/2008-namm-report.html>
> 
> Part 2: We're back from NAMM 2008 with even more intriguing new gadgets
> and gear. Once again, the throbbing halls of America's biggest musical
> instrument trade show introduced a torrent of high-tech goodness. From a
> $99 Steinway to a truly killer guitar, from audible notation to singing
> keys, here's what you'll be playing this year.
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2008/01/31/2008-namm-report-part-2.html>
> 
> 
> ***Katrin Eismann's Digital Darkroom Magic
> Katrin Eismann, coauthor of The Creative Digital Darkroom, sat down with
> Derrick Story at PhotoPlus Expo in New York for a chat about how the
> darkroom has evolved from chemical-based to digital, and how that
> evolution has influenced her approach to image making. Katrin touches on
> many interesting topics, including her explanation on 3-step sharpening.
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2008/01/29/katrin-eismanns-digital-darkroom-magic.html>
> 
> 
> For more articles, go to:
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/>
> 
> ---------------------
> Blogs
> -------------------
> ***Community Pricing for Books
> <http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/02/community_pricing_for_books.html>
> 
> ***Ruby Turns 15 and Other Important Stuff
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2008/02/ruby_turns_15_and_other_import.html>
> 
> ***10 Things Every Parent Should Know About Facebook
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2008/02/10_things_every_parent_should.html>
> 
> ***Mac FFOSS (Freeware/Free & Open Source Software)
> <http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/02/mac-ffoss-freewarefree-open-so-3.html>
> 
> ***Where Did the Courier & Helvetica Fonts Go?
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2008/02/where_did_the_courier_and_helv_1.html>
> 
> ***O'Reilly Books and the Cuban Internet
> <http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/01/folks_are_often.html>
> 
> ***Learning Flex From Scratch: Meet the Authors, Meet Flex
> <http://www.insideria.com/2008/02/lffs1-meet-the-authors-meet-fl.html>
> 
> ***Sonar for your Home
> <http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/02/sonar-for-your-home.html>
> 
> 
> For more blogs, go to:
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/blogs/>
> 
> Until next time--
> 
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> 
> 
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From grant at mclean.net.nz  Sun Mar  9 14:48:49 2008
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:48:49 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Lightning Talk Meeting Next Tuesday
In-Reply-To: <1204577742.8547.6.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
References: <1204577742.8547.6.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
Message-ID: <1205099329.9220.18.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>

Hi Mongers

Meeting is tomorrow at 6:00pm.

Speakers please note that if you plan to use slides then you *must* send
them to me by 5:00pm tomorrow.  The following formats will work:

  * HTML (tarball/zip)
  * PDF
  * OpenOffice presentation (will be displayed with version 2.something)
  * anything else that you've checked with me first

I can't guarantee that the presentation machine will have Internet
access, so if you want to show something, send it to me.

And yes there is room in the schedule if you want to book a speaking
slot.  Although be quick they're going fast :-)

Cheers
Grant

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 09:55 +1300, Grant McLean wrote:
> Hi Mongers
> 
> The March meeting of Wellington.pm is next Tuesday (the 11th).  If
> you've already signed up to give a lightning talk, then you've got 7
> days left to polish your presentation.  If you haven't already signed
> up, then please do so quickly, details here:
> 
> http://wellington.pm.org/lightning_talks.html
> 
>   6:00pm Tuesday 11 March 2008
>   Level 2, The building formerly known as Eagle Technology House
>   150 Willis Street
>   Wellington
>   http://wellington.pm.org/
> 
> Cheers
> Grant
>
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Grant McLean <grant at mclean.net.nz>
> > Reply-To: perlmongers at catalyst.net.nz, Wellington Perl Mongers (Perl
> > user group) <wellington-pm at pm.org>
> > To: Wellington Perl Mongers <wellington-pm at pm.org>
> > Subject: [Wellington-pm] Wellington.pm needs 5min of your time
> > Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:37:25 +1300
> > 
> > Hi Mongers
> > 
> > Well we certainly had a great turnout for Damian's talk on Tuesday and
> > I've had a lot of very positive feedback from people.  Damian
> > appreciated the reception he got and may even be back next year.  So
> > thanks to all concerned.
> > 
> > The next meeting is Tuesday the 11th of March.  It will be a lightning
> > talk meeting which means WE NEED YOU to sign up to do a 5 minute talk.
> > 
> >   http://wellington.pm.org/lightning_talks.html
> > 
> > This is an especially good opportunity for people who haven't done a
> > talk before but we need participation from everyone to make this a
> > success.
> > 
> > The page linked above has a bunch of ideas for what you could talk
> > about.  It also includes the CPAN roulette link which you can use to
> > pick a CPAN module at random to research and talk about :-)
> > 
> > To sign up, email perlmongers at catalyst.net.nz with your name and talk
> > topic.
> > 
> > Then you've got a few weeks to get your talk together.  The main thing
> > you need to sort out is what you want to say.  You may or may not want
> > to use slides.  If you do want to use slides, there are some rules
> > designed to keep things streamlined on the night:
> > 
> >  * you MUST supply the slides to me by email before the event
> >  * you will NOT be able to plug in your laptop
> >  * acceptable file formats: HTML, PDF, OpenOffice.org presentation,
> >    possibly others by prior arrangement
> > 
> > There will be a strictly enforced 5 minute maximum time per talk.  If
> > your talk will take longer than that, save it for a later meeting and
> > talk about something else this time.
> > 
> > So get thinking and send me an email to sign up.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Grant
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Wellington-pm mailing list
> > Wellington-pm at pm.org
> > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm


From grant at mclean.net.nz  Mon Mar 10 15:02:10 2008
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:02:10 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Lightning Talk Meeting Tonight
In-Reply-To: <1205099329.9220.18.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
References: <1204577742.8547.6.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
	<1205099329.9220.18.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
Message-ID: <1205186530.14330.42.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>

Final reminder:

Meeting is tonight starting at 6:00pm

I've had a steady trickle of slide files sent to me from speakers.  If
you plan to use slides but haven't sent them to me yet, please get them
to me by 5:00pm to ensure a streamlined production this evening.

You will *NOT* be able to plug your laptop into the projector - there
simply isn't time for that kind of mucking around.

Cheers
Grant


On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 10:48 +1300, Grant McLean wrote:
> Hi Mongers
> 
> Meeting is tomorrow at 6:00pm.
> 
> Speakers please note that if you plan to use slides then you *must* send
> them to me by 5:00pm tomorrow.  The following formats will work:
> 
>   * HTML (tarball/zip)
>   * PDF
>   * OpenOffice presentation (will be displayed with version 2.something)
>   * anything else that you've checked with me first
> 
> I can't guarantee that the presentation machine will have Internet
> access, so if you want to show something, send it to me.
> 
> And yes there is room in the schedule if you want to book a speaking
> slot.  Although be quick they're going fast :-)
> 
> Cheers
> Grant
> 
> On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 09:55 +1300, Grant McLean wrote:
> > Hi Mongers
> > 
> > The March meeting of Wellington.pm is next Tuesday (the 11th).  If
> > you've already signed up to give a lightning talk, then you've got 7
> > days left to polish your presentation.  If you haven't already signed
> > up, then please do so quickly, details here:
> > 
> > http://wellington.pm.org/lightning_talks.html
> > 
> >   6:00pm Tuesday 11 March 2008
> >   Level 2, The building formerly known as Eagle Technology House
> >   150 Willis Street
> >   Wellington
> >   http://wellington.pm.org/
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Grant



From grant at mclean.net.nz  Tue Mar 11 12:48:40 2008
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:48:40 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: 4th Italian Perl Workshop 2008 - Call for
	Papers	/Participation]
Message-ID: <1205264920.10962.0.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Enrico Sorcinelli <bepi at modperl.it>
> To: pm_groups at pm.org
> Subject: [pm_groups] 4th Italian Perl Workshop 2008 - Call for
> Papers /Participation
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:16:36 +0100
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> The Italian Perl Mongers and the Pisa.pm group are proud to announce the Fourth
> Italian Perl Workshop.
> 
> The Workshop is aimed at Perl users, professionals and hobbyists alike, but
> also to those who are just starting out in this language and want to learn its
> characteristics and culture.
> 
> In addition to classic conference-style talks, there will be discussions and
> debates on topics of interest, proposed by participants and guided by experts.
> See:
> 
> 	http://conferences.yapceurope.org/ipw2008/cfp.html
> 
> for the complete "Call for Papers & Questions".
> 
> The Workshop will be held in Pisa, in rooms kindly offered by the Computer
> Science department of the University of Pisa, on September 18-19, 2008.
> 
> Registration and participation are free of charge, and includes a coffee-break
> service, also gratis.
> 
> In addition, you could have (by paying the optional ticket conference):
> 
> - event T-Shirt
> - perl.it gadgets
> 
> Even though participation in free of charge, we ask you to register as soon as
> possible: this will help our logistics.
> 
> For more info:
> 
> - Web: http://conferences.yapceurope.org/ipw2008/
> 
> - E-mail: workshop-info at perl.it
> 
> - Mailing list: workshop at perl.it 
> (to subscribe, send a message to listmaster at perl.it with 'subscribe
> workshop at perl.it' in the subject)
> 
> See you! :-)
> 
>     - Enrico Sorcinelli
>       IPW 08 Organization - Pisa.pm leader
> 
> ======================
> IPW08 current Sponsors
> 
> - ActiveState - http://www.activestate.com
> - Universit? di Pisa and Computer Science Department - http://www.unipi.it
> 
> [If you want to become a sponsor, please contact us at
> workshop-sponsorship at perl.it]


From grant at mclean.net.nz  Tue Mar 11 19:52:02 2008
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:52:02 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] What did you forget to say last night
Message-ID: <1205290323.10764.20.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>

Hi Mongers

A big thank you to everyone involved in last night's lightning talk
session.  It was a lot of fun.  The slides are up on the web site now:

  http://wellington.pm.org/archive/


Inevitably in a 5 minute talk there will be things that were meant to be
included but didn't get said on the night.  Maybe people could use this
thread to mention things they meant to say but didn't.  I'll kick off:


With regard to the Acme::Bleach and similar modules, apparently some
people didn't 'get' that the bleached (or morsed, or buffied, etc)
version of the script continues to function in the same way as the
original script.  Also I'm not completely sure on the 'back story' of
Acme::Bleach.  I seem to recall (but haven't been able to verify) that
it had it's origins in a coding competition with a rule something like
"each entry must be no longer than 200 bytes, not including whitespace".


The next meeting will be on Tuesday the 8th of April.  No one is lined
up to speak yet so I would be very keen to hear from anyone either
volunteering or suggesting a topic.

Cheers
Grant


From andychilton at gmail.com  Tue Mar 11 21:07:55 2008
From: andychilton at gmail.com (Andrew Chilton)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:07:55 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] What did you forget to say last night
In-Reply-To: <1205290323.10764.20.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
References: <1205290323.10764.20.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
Message-ID: <a364f6fa0803112107r293de9b7vadbe6d29c9a32bad@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

On 12/03/2008, Grant McLean <grant at mclean.net.nz> wrote:
>  Inevitably in a 5 minute talk there will be things that were meant to be
>  included but didn't get said on the night.

Yeah, I had lots to say but couldn't, oh, er, didn't.

The main thing I missed out was a demonstration of the tools showing
how they interacted with each other using SQS as the form of
communication between them. If you want to see the programs, check out
the examples/ directory in the repository for AwsSum.

If you just want to see an example of the gallery, see
http://gallery.kapiti.geek.nz/index.html . This also shows a
demonstration of serving files straight from S3 - it's a CNAME
straight to s3.amazonaws.com which (to prove it is really true) you
can also browse from here
http://gallery.kapiti.geek.nz.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html.

On the note of those Acme::* modules, I wrote a program when I was at
Weta on which I ran Acme::EyeDrops and sent it around to everyone. It
was encoded as approx. 100 Kermit the Frogs. I got some undeserved
kudos out of that one :-)

Thanks for a good evening as always Grant.

Andy

-- 
contact: Andrew Chilton
website: http://kapiti.geek.nz/

From hta.lists at gmail.com  Wed Mar 12 13:47:04 2008
From: hta.lists at gmail.com (Donovan Jones)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:47:04 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] What did you forget to say last night
In-Reply-To: <a364f6fa0803112107r293de9b7vadbe6d29c9a32bad@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1205290323.10764.20.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
	<a364f6fa0803112107r293de9b7vadbe6d29c9a32bad@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <81bb842d0803121347r462ea186t32fd04c5cad147c8@mail.gmail.com>

 The main thing I missed out was a demonstration of the tools showinghow
they interacted with each other using SQS as the form of

> communication between them. If you want to see the programs, check out
> the examples/ directory in the repository for AwsSum.


Where is the repo?

>
> If you just want to see an example of the gallery, see
> http://gallery.kapiti.geek.nz/index.html . This also shows a
> demonstration of serving files straight from S3 - it's a CNAME
> straight to s3.amazonaws.com which (to prove it is really true) you
> can also browse from here
> http://gallery.kapiti.geek.nz.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html.
>
>
Nice photos


>
>
> Thanks for a good evening as always Grant.


Yea thanks Grant, a good night as usual.

For my talk I had to rush over the actual examples a bit, the take home
message was that NetAddr::IP is great for splitting and aggregating
netblocks and that ipclalc is a nice little tool for getting subnet info
including the binary representation.
IPcalc[1] is perl but the actual code is a bit crufty and it doesn't use any
modules for subnet manipulation. For some exaples of other stuff you can do
with NetAddr::IP written by its author see [2].

[1] http://jodies.de/ipcalc
[2] http://mipagina.cantv.net/lem/perl/iptut.html

Donovan
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From brenda at wallace.net.nz  Thu Mar 13 19:58:43 2008
From: brenda at wallace.net.nz (Brenda Wallace)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:58:43 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] What did you forget to say last night
In-Reply-To: <1205290323.10764.20.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
References: <1205290323.10764.20.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
Message-ID: <200803141558.44331.brenda@wallace.net.nz>

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:52:02 Grant McLean wrote:
> The next meeting will be on Tuesday the 8th of April.  No one is lined
> up to speak yet so I would be very keen to hear from anyone either
> volunteering or suggesting a topic.

I was going to volunteer to speak on building an access control helper for 
squid. (using perl)... but now that i typed it, it sounds incredibly dull

*sigh*

From andychilton at gmail.com  Thu Mar 13 21:24:20 2008
From: andychilton at gmail.com (Andrew Chilton)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:24:20 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] What did you forget to say last night
In-Reply-To: <200803141558.44331.brenda@wallace.net.nz>
References: <1205290323.10764.20.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
	<200803141558.44331.brenda@wallace.net.nz>
Message-ID: <a364f6fa0803132124w570d62e4vbf51d9a5f8a9b7d1@mail.gmail.com>

On 14/03/2008, Brenda Wallace <brenda at wallace.net.nz> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:52:02 Grant McLean wrote:
>  > The next meeting will be on Tuesday the 8th of April.  No one is lined
>  > up to speak yet so I would be very keen to hear from anyone either
>  > volunteering or suggesting a topic.
>
>
> I was going to volunteer to speak on building an access control helper for
>  squid. (using perl)... but now that i typed it, it sounds incredibly dull

Is the solution interesting though?

I have volunteered to do a talk titled something like "What I learnt
trying Perl Golf".

Cheers,
Andy

-- 
contact: Andrew Chilton
website: http://kapiti.geek.nz/

From grant at mclean.net.nz  Tue Mar 18 01:18:32 2008
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:18:32 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: [pm_groups] Summer of Perl -- call for
	student proposals]
Message-ID: <1205828312.5352.0.camel@localhost.localdomain>

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing at gmail.com>
> To: PM Groups <pm_groups at pm.org>
> Subject: [pm_groups] Summer of Perl -- call for student proposals
> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:55:24 -0700
> 
> Hi all,  Please forward this to your groups.  (Also feel free to break 
> into a discussion as to whether or how students are involved in the 
> perl community, what we can do to connect with more universities and 
> etc.)
> 
> 
> The Perl Foundation is participating in Google's 2008 Summer of Code(tm) 
> and we have a lot of capable, willing mentors looking forward to working 
> with some talented, driven students.  So, we would like you to help 
> find those students (and quickly -- the students must apply before 
> March 24th.)
> 
> This is a rare opportunity for students to get a chance to get a paid 
> summer of hacking on exciting projects like Parrot, Perl 6, Moose, 
> Jifty, SVK, Catalyst, or their very own Perl modules or applications.  
> It also brings new talent into the community and gives the student a 
> hefty "real world" experience with a knowledgable mentor.  Further, 
> employers love to see this sort of demonstration of teamwork, handling 
> deadlines, communication skills, resourcefulness and etc.
> 
> We're looking for promising students who are interested in open source 
> (or maybe you know someone who *should* be interested in open source.)  
> Knowledge of Perl is optional if the project is Parrot-related.  The 
> student doesn't need to be an expert in the problem domain (after all, 
> learning is part of the process), but should bring a big pile of 
> creativity, problem-solving skills, and determination.
> 
> Students should review the page of suggested projects, but are 
> encouraged to bring their own proposals (those are often the best.)  
> The most important first step is getting in touch with the community 
> and discussing their project idea with potential mentors.
> 
>   http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects
> 
> Additional information and links can be found here.
> 
>   http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008
> 
> Google has posted some flyers if you happen to have a university 
> bulletin board or hallway handy:
> 
>   http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers
> 
> Additional info:
> 
>   http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
>   http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html
> 
> (Note that google has particular requirements to do with the fact that 
> they are paying the students.  The student must be able to show their 
> eligibility regarding enrollment and employability.)
> 
> Remember, the Perl community draws talent from many fields, so if you 
> came to Perl from a non-computer-science major and still have contacts 
> in that department from your university, it is probably worth 
> mentioning to them.
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric


From jacinta.richardson at member.sage-au.org.au  Tue Mar 25 18:23:00 2008
From: jacinta.richardson at member.sage-au.org.au (jacinta.richardson at member.sage-au.org.au)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:23:00 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [Wellington-pm] SAGE-AU 2008 Call for Participation
Message-ID: <20080326012300.01F7DA941C@teddybear.perltraining.com.au>

SAGE-AU invites the members of Wellington PM
to submit proposals to the 16th Australian System Administrators' 
Conference.  



[Please forward this invitation to anyone you feel would be interested]

Final call for presentations!  Proposals are due next Monday - 31st March.

16th Annual System Administrators' Conference (SAGE-AU 2008)
============================================================
The System Administrators' Guild of Australia
Adelaide, 11-15th August 2008

SAGE-AU was formed to advance the profession of System Administration by
raising awareness of the need for System Administrators, and educating
System Administrators in technical as well as professional issues.  Our
yearly conference provides a forum for System Administrators of all
platforms and levels of experience to gather together and share their
experiences.  Further it provides an excellent opportunity to meet and
network with acknowledged experts in the field.

SAGE-AU 2008 will be held in Adelaide from the 11th-15th August.

Theme
-----

This year our theme is Greening our Computers.  We particularly encourage
talks on how to make carbon-neutral data centres, working with low-power
devices and similar.  If you have any talks or tutorials on this kind of
material, please submit them!

Tutorials and Papers
--------------------

SAGE-AU is seeking tutorials (full and half-day) and talks relevant to System
Administration for the 16th Annual System Administrators' Conference.  For
the full Call for Presentations text please visit:

	http://www.sage-au.org.au/x/Xg8


SAGE-AU 2008 Adelaide - Submission Dates
----------------------------------------

Call for Papers/Tutorials Issued        12th February 2008
Proposals Due                           31st March 2008
Provisional Notification                28th April 2008
Draft Paper/Tutorials Due                2nd June 2008
Confirmed Acceptance and Contracts      16th June 2008
Final Paper/Tutorial Materials Due      14th July 2008

For all information, contacts and updates, see the SAGE-AU conference web
site at http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/conf/

From grant at mclean.net.nz  Sat Mar 29 11:58:43 2008
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:58:43 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Nordic Perl Workshop 2008 - Call for Papers &
	Participation]
Message-ID: <1206817123.5361.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Possibly of interest to anyone planning to be in Sweden in late May ...

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Claes Jakobsson <claes at surfar.nu>
> To: pm_groups at pm.org
> Subject: [pm_groups] Nordic Perl Workshop 2008 - Call for Papers &
> Participation
> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:23:00 +0100
> 
> Hi,
> 
> please forward this to your local groups.
> 
> Thanks,
> Claes Jakobsson, Stockholm.pm
> 
> ---
> 
> Nordic Perl Workshop 2008 - Call for Papers & Participation
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Stockholm Perl Mongers and its fellow Nordic Perl Mongers arranges the  
> annual Nordic Perl Workshop in Stockholm, Sweden on the 24th and 25th  
> of May (over a weekend). This is the second time the workshop is  
> arranged in Stockholm and the 6th time in total. The venue for this  
> years workshop is located right next to Vasaparken near Odenplan, in  
> the heart of Stockholm. During summertime this is a green oasis where  
> one can chill in the grass, watch people or take a break in some of  
> the park's coffee-shops. Odenplan also offers a wide range of  
> restaurants and pubs in it's vicinity.
> 
> Nordic Perl Workshop is a workshop for the community by the community  
> and we want you to submit interesting and inspiring presentations in  
> order to make the workshop successful. Talk lengths are the usual 20  
> and 40 minutes but we might consider longer ones if motivated. Any  
> subject is welcome as long as it's related to Perl somehow - from  
> algorithms for social graphing and web-technologies to Perl5 core  
> optimizations and language implementation targeting the Parrot VM. To  
> submit a talk either do it online on the workshop website[1] or to claes at surfar.nu 
> . If submitting via email please prefix the subject with [NPW]. Please  
> submit talks no later than Friday 2nd of May. Accepted speakers will  
> be notified Monday 5th of May.
> 
> Apart from speakers the workshop also requires eager participants.  
> Workshop fee is 500 SEK (~ 55 EUR) and there's a reduced fee at 250  
> SEK (~ 28 EUR) for students. This includes admission to the workshop  
> and coffee. Registration is done via the website[1] which uses ACT so  
> if you have attended a previous workshop registration is dead simple.
> 
> [1] Website is not online yet but we're working on it really hard. The  
> URL is as always http://www.perlworkshop.dk/
> 
> Important dates to remember:
> 
>      May 2nd     - Deadline for talk submission
>      May 5th     - Speakers will be notified
>      May 16th    - Registration closes
>      May 23th    - Pre-work gathering for early arrivals
>      May 24-25th - Nordic Perl Workshop 2008
> 
> 
> Hope to see you in Stockholm.
> 
> Claes Jakobsson on behalf of the Nordic Perl Workshop 2008  
> organization team.
> 


From francois at catalyst.net.nz  Sun Mar 30 18:43:05 2008
From: francois at catalyst.net.nz (Francois Marier)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:43:05 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Ways to do i18n in Perl?
Message-ID: <1206927785.6874.25.camel@localhost>

Does anybody have experience with the internationalization and
localization of a Perl program?

I want to internationalize a program of mine, but I'm not sure what are
the usual Perl ways to do it.

Grant has suggested 

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/i18n/lib/i18n.pm

which appears to be a wrapper around Locale::Maketext.

Cheers,
Francois
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From grant at mclean.net.nz  Sun Mar 30 18:56:20 2008
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:56:20 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Ways to do i18n in Perl?
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References: <1206927785.6874.25.camel@localhost>
Message-ID: <1206928580.7017.19.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 14:43 +1300, Francois Marier wrote:
> Does anybody have experience with the internationalization and
> localization of a Perl program?
> 
> I want to internationalize a program of mine, but I'm not sure what are
> the usual Perl ways to do it.
> 
> Grant has suggested 
> 
>   http://search.cpan.org/dist/i18n/lib/i18n.pm
> 
> which appears to be a wrapper around Locale::Maketext.

Speaking of Locale::MakeText, this article from The Perl Journal is
included in the distribution and is an interesting read:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maketext/TPJ13.pod

Cheers
Grant