From mongers at bsod.net Tue Jul 3 12:39:11 2007 From: mongers at bsod.net (Pete Krawczyk) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:39:11 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [WindyCity-pm] July 31, 2007: Lightning Talks and Perl::Critic Message-ID: Windy City Perl Mongers Meeting Announcement --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic: Lightning Talks and Perl::Critic Presenter: You!, Josh McAdams Date/Time: Tuesday, July 31, 2007, 7:00 PM CDT Location: Performics, 12th Floor, 180 N. LaSalle, Chicago, IL RSVP: By 12:00 PM CDT the day of at pkrawczyk at doubleclick dot com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that this meeting is one week later than normally scheduled! RSVPs are also required for this meeting. This meeting will start with Lightning Talks, and if there is time remaining, Josh McAdams will present a tutorial on writing policies for Perl::Critic. If you are interested in doing a lightning talk, please pre-register for a five minute slot by sending an email to the RSVP address above. You can also sign up for a presentation slot at the meeting, if any are left. We will announce any pre-registered talks before the meeting. Lightning Talks are 5-minute talks, given on any subject you can think of. Here's somewhere to look for ideas: http://perl.plover.com/lt/lightning-talks.html We are also looking for lightning talks about what you learned at a recent conference, such as YAPC or OSCON; interesting projects or problems you've recently worked on; new technology you've recently discovered; or questions you'd like to present in front of a group of your peers. Lightning talks rely on YOU getting up there and doing your five minutes in the spotlight. It's a GREAT way for people who have never spoken before to get out there and get their feet wet. From MJD's page: Maybe you've never given a talk before, and you'd like to start small. For a Lightning Talk, you don't need to make slides, and if you do decide to make slides, you only need to make three. Maybe you're nervous and you're afraid you'll mess up. It's a lot easier to plan and deliver a five minute talk than it is to deliver a long talk. And if you do mess up, at least the painful part will be over quickly. Maybe you don't have much to say. Maybe you just want to ask a question, or invite people to help you with your project, or boast about something you did, or tell a short cautionary story. These things are all interesting and worth talking about, but there might not be enough to say about them to fill up thirty minutes. Lightning talks also don't require slides, charts or graphs. If you do want to use them, however, please be mindful of the five minute limit - you'll probably only get to cover three slides or so. -Pete K -- Pete Krawczyk Chicago Perl Mongers mongers at bsod dot net From brian.d.foy at gmail.com Tue Jul 10 12:08:21 2007 From: brian.d.foy at gmail.com (brian d foy) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:08:21 -0500 Subject: [WindyCity-pm] Lincoln Park Zoo Camel Tour, Saturday August 11 at 11 am Message-ID: <2715accf0707101208l4021a73dk721676ac2128e37@mail.gmail.com> Lincoln Park Zoo will give a free, docent-guided, behind-the-scenes tour of the camel exhibit exclusively for Perl Mongers on Saturday August 11 at 11:00 am. That's when all the stars align for the docents, animals, and zookeepers. This event is primarily for those who donated to the Adopt-a-Camel campaign, and the tour can only take up to 20 people due to the size of the back area of the camel exhibit. If you're interested in coming, please RSVP with me (brian d foy, brian.d.foy at gmail.com). Children may come, although it will be a grown-up oriented event. Priority for the 20 slots goes to those who donated to the Camel Fund. After that we can open it up to spouses and friends. Even if people can't go into the camel enclosure, there's still plenty to do at the zoo during the half hour tour. There is no admission fee to the zoo for anyone. After the zoo we can have lunch at an area restaurant that we can decide later. Lincoln Park Zoo: http://www.lpzoo.org/ Perl Mongers Adopt-A-Camel: http://windycity.pm.org/adopt-a-camel.shtml Thanks, :) -- brian d foy http://www.pair.com/~comdog/ From brian.d.foy at gmail.com Thu Jul 19 21:20:03 2007 From: brian.d.foy at gmail.com (brian d foy) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:20:03 -0500 Subject: [WindyCity-pm] Reserve your copy of Mastering Perl Message-ID: <2715accf0707192120wf84cf7aw6aa96f23563c0a02@mail.gmail.com> Mastering Perl is out. I'm taking orders for people who want to take advantage of my 50% author discount. Tell me you want one and I'll make sure I get enough books. You don't have to commit to buying it, but at least I'll have enough on hand. :) -- brian d foy http://www.pair.com/~comdog/ From mongers at bsod.net Mon Jul 30 09:08:07 2007 From: mongers at bsod.net (Pete Krawczyk) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:08:07 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [WindyCity-pm] REMINDER: July 31, 2007: Lightning Talks and Perl::Critic Message-ID: This is a reminder about tomorrow night's Perl Mongers meeting. There will also be several people in attendance who attended OSCON and would like to share their thoughts about the conference. Please RSVP as soon as possible if you think you might even possibly want to attend. It's better to be on the list and not attend than not be on the list and decide at the last minute to show up - the former causes us no grief; the latter gets hassled at security. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chicago Perl Mongers Meeting Announcement --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic: Lightning Talks and Perl::Critic Presenter: You!, Josh McAdams Date/Time: Tuesday, July 31, 2007, 7:00 PM CDT Location: Performics, 12th Floor, 180 N. LaSalle, Chicago, IL RSVP: By 12:00 PM CDT on July 31 at pkrawczyk at doubleclick dot com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that this meeting is one week later than normally scheduled! RSVPs are also required for this meeting. This meeting will start with Lightning Talks, and if there is time remaining, Josh McAdams will present a tutorial on writing policies for Perl::Critic. If you are interested in doing a lightning talk, please pre-register for a five minute slot by sending an email to the RSVP address above. You can also sign up for a presentation slot at the meeting, if any are left. We will announce any pre-registered talks before the meeting. Lightning Talks are 5-minute talks, given on any subject you can think of. Here's somewhere to look for ideas: http://perl.plover.com/lt/lightning-talks.html We are also looking for lightning talks about what you learned at a recent conference, such as YAPC or OSCON; interesting projects or problems you've recently worked on; new technology you've recently discovered; or questions you'd like to present in front of a group of your peers. Lightning talks rely on YOU getting up there and doing your five minutes in the spotlight. It's a GREAT way for people who have never spoken before to get out there and get their feet wet. From MJD's page: Maybe you've never given a talk before, and you'd like to start small. For a Lightning Talk, you don't need to make slides, and if you do decide to make slides, you only need to make three. Maybe you're nervous and you're afraid you'll mess up. It's a lot easier to plan and deliver a five minute talk than it is to deliver a long talk. And if you do mess up, at least the painful part will be over quickly. Maybe you don't have much to say. Maybe you just want to ask a question, or invite people to help you with your project, or boast about something you did, or tell a short cautionary story. These things are all interesting and worth talking about, but there might not be enough to say about them to fill up thirty minutes. Lightning talks also don't require slides, charts or graphs. If you do want to use them, however, please be mindful of the five minute limit - you'll probably only get to cover three slides or so. As with all Chicago Perl Mongers meetings, everyone is welcome, whether or not you consider yourself a member. We look forward to seeing you there! Questions about this meeting? Ask on the chicago-talk at pm.org mailing list, or send email to andy at petdance dot com. You can also see a list of past and upcoming meetings at http://chicago.pm.org/meetings/. -Pete K -- Pete Krawczyk Chicago Perl Mongers mongers at bsod dot net From brian.d.foy at gmail.com Mon Jul 30 19:06:06 2007 From: brian.d.foy at gmail.com (brian d foy) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:06:06 -0500 Subject: [WindyCity-pm] OSCON swag at tomorrow's night's meeting Message-ID: <2715accf0707301906i623f030dk6f6be13b34a6cd7f@mail.gmail.com> I have a lot of OSCON swag that I'll be bringing to tomorrow's meeting, including copies of "Beautiful Code" and "Intel C++ Threading Building Blocks", several different sorts of t-shirts, many. many O'Reilly buttons with different animals on them, an O'Reilly gift certificate for http://qoop.com/oreilly (where you can make your own O'Reilly gear with your favorite animals), and a bunch of other stuff. You must be present to win. Don't despair if you can't make it to this meeting: I have three bags full of this stuff so it should be around at the next meeting too. :) -- brian d foy http://www.pair.com/~comdog/ From mrnicksgirl at gmail.com Tue Jul 31 07:54:41 2007 From: mrnicksgirl at gmail.com (Nola Stowe) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:54:41 -0500 Subject: [WindyCity-pm] Dinner before the meeting? Message-ID: <43e95380707310754i61468cd1r4af1170619a88b57@mail.gmail.com> You guys up for dinner before the meeting? I was thinking Ronnys steak house (albeit, probably not the greatest) is in the NorthEast corner of the Thompson Center. http://chicago.menupages.com/screenmenu_b.asp?restaurantid=22770&areaid=25 I'll be there at 5:45 to grab a seat (or tell them how many are coming at least), not sure how long it takes, but try and meet around 6. Let me know if you are coming! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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