From JDAfu2aDM4VF5 at perform.nospymail.com  Mon Aug  3 18:22:22 2009
From: JDAfu2aDM4VF5 at perform.nospymail.com (VPeuWzSme3ZPzsXHjF2wHz)
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:22:22 -0400
Subject: [Wellington-pm] LAST CALL
Message-ID: <MTAwMDAwNy5wZXJmb3JtQGNvdHNlLm5ldA.1249348948@quikprotect>

  One last laugh: _* Yo Ho Ho And A Bottle Of Rum *__* *_

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
The mate was fixed by the bosun's pike
The bosun brained with a marlinspike
And cookey's throat was marked belike
It had been gripped by fingers ten;
And there they lay, all good dead men
Like break o'day in a boozing ken.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

*---Robert Louis Stevenson, //*_*/Treasure Island/*_/
/*Daniel Defoe, //*_*/Robinson Crusoe /and /Captain Singleton, and 
/**/The Four Years Voyages of Captain George Roberts/*__*

*_*AND FINALLY
_"Monty Python's Flying Circus" (1969)_
*Voice Over: Dear Sir, I am glad to hear that your studio audience 
disapproves of the last skit as strongly as I. As a naval officer I 
abhor the implication that the Royal Navy is a haven for cannibalism. It 
is well known that we now have the problem relatively under control, and 
that it is the RAF who now suffer the largest casualties in this area. 
And what do you think the Argylls ate in Aden. Arabs? Yours etc. Captain 
B.J. Smethwick in a white wine sauce with shallots, mushrooms and garlic.

_*The King and I (1999)
*_ The Kralahome: [dictating to Master Little, who will then send the 
dictation to Edward Ramsey] To Sir Edward Ramsey, your schoolteacher is 
in great danger, etc, etc.
AND
Master Little: [excitedly] Etc? Ooh, is that a secret code?

/*GO FIGURE
*/
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From brenda at wallace.net.nz  Wed Aug  5 16:47:22 2009
From: brenda at wallace.net.nz (Brenda Wallace)
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:47:22 +1200
Subject: [Wellington-pm] NZ Open Govt Data Barcamp and Hackfest, Wellington,
	29-30/8
Message-ID: <b1a8dc1e0908051647i134c22a1oafde15715387d3b5@mail.gmail.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Web 2.0 developments have shown the potential of combining data from
different sources made freely available on the Internet. The
government holds a huge range of non-personal data which could form
the basis of innovative services and ?applications by others on the
Internet.

You should come if you are interested in government information
policy, explore ways to provide data, making entrepreneurial use of
the Internet, or building working applications during a
weekend.</pastey bit>

So far there are 100 people signed up.

Details area at:
http://groups.google.co.nz/group/nzopengovtbarcamp

From grant at mclean.net.nz  Sun Aug  9 15:08:09 2009
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:08:09 +1200
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Perl Mongers Meeting Tomorrow!
Message-ID: <1249855689.9148.2.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>

Hi Mongers

The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers will be tomorrow evening
(August 11th).

Usual time and place:

  6:00pm Tuesday 11 August 2009
  Level 3, Catalyst House
  150 Willis Street
  Wellington
  http://wellington.pm.org/

At this stage we have three talks lined up:

 * Douglas Bagnall - Confessions of a detwikifier
 * Sam Vilain - Oribtal control with Perl and XS
 * Martyn Smith - Keeping time with Perl

There may be room for another 5-10 minute talk - contact me if you're
keen.

Cheers
Grant



From grant at mclean.net.nz  Mon Aug 10 21:59:26 2009
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:59:26 +1200
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Perl Mongers Meeting Tonight!
In-Reply-To: <1249855689.9148.2.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
References: <1249855689.9148.2.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
Message-ID: <1249966766.11527.5.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>

Just in case you needed a late reminder.  Meeting kicks off in one hour.

In addition to the scheduled talks, I may talk about my recent
adventures with Javascript and Mason - time permitting.

Cheers
Grant

On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 10:08 +1200, Grant McLean wrote:
> Hi Mongers
> 
> The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers will be tomorrow evening
> (August 11th).
> 
> Usual time and place:
> 
>   6:00pm Tuesday 11 August 2009
>   Level 3, Catalyst House
>   150 Willis Street
>   Wellington
>   http://wellington.pm.org/
> 
> At this stage we have three talks lined up:
> 
>  * Douglas Bagnall - Confessions of a detwikifier
>  * Sam Vilain - Oribtal control with Perl and XS
>  * Martyn Smith - Keeping time with Perl
> 
> There may be room for another 5-10 minute talk - contact me if you're
> keen.
> 
> 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  Tue Aug 11 18:37:55 2009
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:37:55 +1200
Subject: [Wellington-pm] [CFP] LCA2010 Open Programming Languages Miniconf
Message-ID: <1250041075.11527.15.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>

Hi Mongers

The Call for Presentations (CFP) is now open for the 'Open Programming
Languages Miniconf' at the LCA (linux.conf.au) conference to be held in
Wellington in January.

Miniconfs are 1-day events prior to the main LCA conference.  The Open
Programming Languages Miniconf invites presentations about all
programming languages with an Open Source implementation, such as Perl,
Python, C, PHP and Ruby, amongst others.

This is a great opportunity for cross-pollination between the different
programming communities and also a great opportunity for you to tell
others about cool stuff you've been doing recently.

To find out more about this event and how to submit your presentation
proposal, visit this web page:

  http://blogs.tucs.org.au/oplm/cfp/

Cheers
Grant



From grant at mclean.net.nz  Thu Aug 27 21:12:11 2009
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:12:11 +1200
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Speakers needed!!
Message-ID: <1251432731.27324.23.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>

Hi Mongers

Weeks have gone by and I've totally failed to say "thank you" to our
speakers from the August meeting, so ...

Thank you to Douglas, Sam and Martyn - our speakers from the August
meeting! The slides are up on the web site (except for Martyn's, but he
probably just needs a reminder):

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

The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is two Tuesdays away on
September 8th.

There are no speakers scheduled yet so I really need to hear from
volunteers.

I hope you're all also thinking about submitting a talk for the Open
Languages MiniConf at the upcoming LCA.  If you are, then you might want
to book a slot at Wellington.pm to practice your talk.

If there's anyone lurking on the list thinking "I'd come along to the
meeting if there was a talk about <INSERT SUBJECT HERE>" then speak up
on the list and tell us what you want to hear about.

Cheers
Grant


From brenda at wallace.net.nz  Thu Aug 27 21:16:52 2009
From: brenda at wallace.net.nz (Brenda Wallace)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:16:52 +1200
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Speakers needed!!
In-Reply-To: <1251432731.27324.23.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
References: <1251432731.27324.23.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
Message-ID: <b1a8dc1e0908272116v638bbf93gcbcebd13be7f75e3@mail.gmail.com>

I can speak on Net::DigitalNZ

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Grant McLean<grant at mclean.net.nz> wrote:
> Hi Mongers
>
> Weeks have gone by and I've totally failed to say "thank you" to our
> speakers from the August meeting, so ...
>
> Thank you to Douglas, Sam and Martyn - our speakers from the August
> meeting! The slides are up on the web site (except for Martyn's, but he
> probably just needs a reminder):
>
> ?http://wellington.pm.org/archive/index.html
>
> The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is two Tuesdays away on
> September 8th.
>
> There are no speakers scheduled yet so I really need to hear from
> volunteers.
>
> I hope you're all also thinking about submitting a talk for the Open
> Languages MiniConf at the upcoming LCA. ?If you are, then you might want
> to book a slot at Wellington.pm to practice your talk.
>
> If there's anyone lurking on the list thinking "I'd come along to the
> meeting if there was a talk about <INSERT SUBJECT HERE>" then speak up
> on the list and tell us what you want to hear about.
>
> Cheers
> Grant
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wellington-pm mailing list
> Wellington-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm
>



-- 
www.br3nda.com
www.coffee.geek.nz
"Support living artists - the dead ones don't need it." - Collette Rene Fergus

From lenz at gschwendtner.eu  Thu Aug 27 22:18:55 2009
From: lenz at gschwendtner.eu (Lenz Gschwendtner)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:18:55 +1200
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Speakers needed!!
In-Reply-To: <1251432731.27324.23.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
References: <1251432731.27324.23.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
Message-ID: <1CFB6B56-9F89-479E-8E08-6DCDACC8283B@gschwendtner.eu>

i did quite a bit of work on RabbitMQ -> perl integration and some  
helping out writing Net::AMQP (and - not listening to grants warnings  
- writing Net::AMQP::Simple) all only on github in the moment.

in case there is some interest in message driven infrastructures in  
perl i could push some stuff i work on in slides ...

cheers
lenz

On 28/08/2009, at 4:12 PM, Grant McLean wrote:

> Hi Mongers
>
> Weeks have gone by and I've totally failed to say "thank you" to our
> speakers from the August meeting, so ...
>
> Thank you to Douglas, Sam and Martyn - our speakers from the August
> meeting! The slides are up on the web site (except for Martyn's, but  
> he
> probably just needs a reminder):
>
> http://wellington.pm.org/archive/index.html
>
> The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is two Tuesdays away on
> September 8th.
>
> There are no speakers scheduled yet so I really need to hear from
> volunteers.
>
> I hope you're all also thinking about submitting a talk for the Open
> Languages MiniConf at the upcoming LCA.  If you are, then you might  
> want
> to book a slot at Wellington.pm to practice your talk.
>
> If there's anyone lurking on the list thinking "I'd come along to the
> meeting if there was a talk about <INSERT SUBJECT HERE>" then speak up
> on the list and tell us what you want to hear about.
>
> Cheers
> Grant
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wellington-pm mailing list
> Wellington-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm


From andychilton at gmail.com  Fri Aug 28 00:54:21 2009
From: andychilton at gmail.com (Andrew Chilton)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:54:21 +1200
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Speakers needed!!
In-Reply-To: <1251432731.27324.23.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
References: <1251432731.27324.23.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
Message-ID: <a364f6fa0908280054l7d09d512pf03afd5889f57fc1@mail.gmail.com>

2009/8/28 Grant McLean <grant at mclean.net.nz>:
> There are no speakers scheduled yet so I really need to hear from
> volunteers.

I mentioned once that I could talk about HTTP::Engine. It'll only be a
short talk, maybe 10 mins if Srdjan isn't around, maybe 30 if he is
:-p

Cheers,
Andy

-- 
contact: Andrew Chilton
website: http://www.pie.geek.nz/

From jarich at perltraining.com.au  Sat Aug 29 04:36:46 2009
From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:36:46 +1000
Subject: [Wellington-pm] LCA2010 Open Programming Languages Miniconf
Message-ID: <4A9912CE.5000208@perltraining.com.au>

The LCA2010 Open Programming Languages Miniconf, to be held at
Linux.conf.au 2010 in January 2010 (either on Monday 18th or Tuesday
19th January), invites presentations about all programming languages
with an Open Source implementation, such as Perl, Python, C, PHP and
Ruby, amongst others.

Topics may include recent developments in open programming languages,
interface design, portability and packaging, coding applications with
cool new libraries and frameworks, and showing off the use of novel
programming techniques; presentations may be proposed in a standard
(25-minute) or long (45-minute) talk format.

Whilst most talks will be specific to a single language, the focus of
this miniconf will be on sharing techniques, best practices and values
amongst programmers of all open programming languages.

We will be accepting proposals effective immediately, and our CFP will
close on Friday, September 25. Absolutely no extensions will be granted
due to the tight timeline for LCA2010 programme publication.

To read the guidelines for presentations, and the submission process for
proposals, please visit the CFP page on our website.
http://blogs.tucs.org.au/oplm/cfp/

Important Dates
----------------
       CFP Opens at http://blogs.tucs.org.au/oplm/cfp/submit/
     * Friday, September 25: CFP Closes
     * Saturday, September 26-Thursday, October 1: Notification of
successful presenters
     * Friday, October 2: Final programme submitted to LCA2010 organisers
     * January 18, 2010: Linux.conf.au 2010 Begins

The timeline for the CFP is extremely tight by requirement of the
LCA2010 organisers, so no extensions will be granted.


About the Miniconf
------------------

The Linux.conf.au Open Programming Languages Miniconf is a single-day
mini-conference about application development with Open Source
programming languages. Featuring talks on a wide range of topics and
programming languages, this miniconf aims to bring together open source
developers with presentations that share techniques, best practices and
values amongst programmers of all open programming languages. OPLM2010
will be held at Linux.conf.au 2010, in Wellington, New Zealand from
January 18-23.

OPLM2010 is being organised by Christopher Neugebauer and Jacinta
Richardson with help from the broader community. You can contact the
OPLM2010 organising team at oplm2010 at googlegroups.com or visit the
website at http://blogs.tucs.org.au/oplm.


From srdjan at catalyst.net.nz  Sun Aug 30 16:52:46 2009
From: srdjan at catalyst.net.nz (Srdjan)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:52:46 +1000
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Speakers needed!!
In-Reply-To: <a364f6fa0908280054l7d09d512pf03afd5889f57fc1@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1251432731.27324.23.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
	<a364f6fa0908280054l7d09d512pf03afd5889f57fc1@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4A9B10CE.1080509@catalyst.net.nz>

I demand my video presence then.

Andrew Chilton wrote:
> 2009/8/28 Grant McLean <grant at mclean.net.nz>:
>   
>> There are no speakers scheduled yet so I really need to hear from
>> volunteers.
>>     
>
> I mentioned once that I could talk about HTTP::Engine. It'll only be a
> short talk, maybe 10 mins if Srdjan isn't around, maybe 30 if he is
> :-p
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
>   

From olly at survex.com  Sun Aug 30 18:50:06 2009
From: olly at survex.com (Olly Betts)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:50:06 +0100
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Speakers needed!!
In-Reply-To: <1251432731.27324.23.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
References: <1251432731.27324.23.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
Message-ID: <20090831015006.GB14009@survex.com>

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 04:12:11PM +1200, Grant McLean wrote:
> There are no speakers scheduled yet so I really need to hear from
> volunteers.

I'm happy to talk about Xapian if you don't have too many volunteers
already.

Cheers,
    Olly

From grant at mclean.net.nz  Sun Aug 30 18:58:40 2009
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:58:40 +1200
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Speakers needed!!
In-Reply-To: <1251432731.27324.23.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
References: <1251432731.27324.23.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
Message-ID: <1251683920.28983.2.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>

You guys are awesome!

Brenda, Lenz, Andy and Olly - consider yourselves booked!

I'll update the web site.

Cheers
Grant


On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 16:12 +1200, Grant McLean wrote:
> Hi Mongers
> 
> Weeks have gone by and I've totally failed to say "thank you" to our
> speakers from the August meeting, so ...
> 
> Thank you to Douglas, Sam and Martyn - our speakers from the August
> meeting! The slides are up on the web site (except for Martyn's, but he
> probably just needs a reminder):
> 
>   http://wellington.pm.org/archive/index.html
> 
> The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is two Tuesdays away on
> September 8th.
> 
> There are no speakers scheduled yet so I really need to hear from
> volunteers.
> 
> I hope you're all also thinking about submitting a talk for the Open
> Languages MiniConf at the upcoming LCA.  If you are, then you might want
> to book a slot at Wellington.pm to practice your talk.
> 
> If there's anyone lurking on the list thinking "I'd come along to the
> meeting if there was a talk about <INSERT SUBJECT HERE>" then speak up
> on the list and tell us what you want to hear about.
> 
> Cheers
> Grant
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Wellington-pm mailing list
> Wellington-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm