From pcmantz at gmail.com  Mon Sep 14 21:00:24 2009
From: pcmantz at gmail.com (Paul Mantz)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:00:24 -0500
Subject: [WindyCity-pm] Fwd: Hackathon! September
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Paul Mantz <pcmantz at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Subject: Hackathon! September
To: pumping-station-one-public at googlegroups.com


Hey guys,

We had excellent success the hackathon last month, so we're going to
do it again. ?On Saturday, the 26th--from 8pm to 12pm the next
day--drag your software and other coding projects out of their
mothballs and prepare to hack up a storm. ?We're going to see what we
can push out the door.

This is a great event for newcomers to see what we're about--I want to
see terminals flying with activity and inspiration. ?Bring your
friends, write a command-line utility. ?Chug a Red Bull and finish off
your website. ?Let's get to hacking.

Details are posted at the wiki
page--http://pumpingstationone.org/wiki//index.php?title=Hackathon .
Add your project, correct my grammar, and stir up a fuss. ?Let's see
some coding!


Adios,

--
Paul Mantz
http://www.mcpantz.org
BackupPC - Network Backup with De-Duplication http://www.backuppc.com
Zmanda - Open source backup and recovery http://www.zmanda.com/



-- 
Paul Mantz
http://www.mcpantz.org
BackupPC - Network Backup with De-Duplication http://www.backuppc.com
Zmanda - Open source backup and recovery http://www.zmanda.com/

From joshua.mcadams at gmail.com  Wed Sep 16 20:47:50 2009
From: joshua.mcadams at gmail.com (Joshua)
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:47:50 -0500
Subject: [WindyCity-pm] Time for a Perl Mongers meeting?
Message-ID: <49d805d70909162047s5c878229k3e447171f7442cae@mail.gmail.com>

Tuesday September 22nd is the 4th Tuesday of the month.  Anyone up for
a PM meeting?

I don't know that we have any talks lined up yet... any volunteers?

From jon at jrock.us  Mon Sep 21 14:27:13 2009
From: jon at jrock.us (Jonathan Rockway)
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:27:13 -0500
Subject: [WindyCity-pm] Time for a Perl Mongers meeting?
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	(Joshua's message of "Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:47:50 -0500")
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* On Wed, Sep 16 2009, Joshua wrote:
> Tuesday September 22nd is the 4th Tuesday of the month.  Anyone up for
> a PM meeting?

How about we skip the talks this month and just meet up for beer/food?

(We could do Clark St. Ale House again, if that is OK with everyone
else.)

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway

--
print just => another => perl => hacker => if $,=$"

From brian.d.foy at gmail.com  Mon Sep 21 14:31:20 2009
From: brian.d.foy at gmail.com (brian d foy)
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:31:20 -0500
Subject: [WindyCity-pm] Time for a Perl Mongers meeting?
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	<874oqwaszy.fsf@bar.jrock.us>
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On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Jonathan Rockway <jon at jrock.us> wrote:
> * On Wed, Sep 16 2009, Joshua wrote:
>> Tuesday September 22nd is the 4th Tuesday of the month. ?Anyone up for
>> a PM meeting?
>
> How about we skip the talks this month and just meet up for beer/food?

Chris Nandor is going to be in town on Wednesday night. How about we
do beer and food that night instead of Tuesday? He's staying at the W
Hotel, so something near there would be good. I told him that I would
meet him at 6:30ish.

-- 
brian d foy <brian.d.foy at gmail.com>
http://www.pair.com/~comdog/

From joshua.mcadams at gmail.com  Mon Sep 21 19:27:57 2009
From: joshua.mcadams at gmail.com (Joshua)
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:27:57 -0500
Subject: [WindyCity-pm] Time for a Perl Mongers meeting?
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	<874oqwaszy.fsf@bar.jrock.us>
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+1 on skipping the talks and just doing a social meetup.

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Jonathan Rockway <jon at jrock.us> wrote:
> * On Wed, Sep 16 2009, Joshua wrote:
>> Tuesday September 22nd is the 4th Tuesday of the month. ?Anyone up for
>> a PM meeting?
>
> How about we skip the talks this month and just meet up for beer/food?
>
> (We could do Clark St. Ale House again, if that is OK with everyone
> else.)
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan Rockway
>
> --
> print just => another => perl => hacker => if $,=$"
>

From kent at c2group.net  Mon Sep 21 20:11:49 2009
From: kent at c2group.net (Kent Cowgill)
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:11:49 -0500
Subject: [WindyCity-pm] Time for a Perl Mongers meeting?
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I'm in favor of Wednesday this week, and I'm indifferent about having  
a talk.

On Sep 21, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Joshua <joshua.mcadams at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 on skipping the talks and just doing a social meetup.
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Jonathan Rockway <jon at jrock.us>  
> wrote:
>> * On Wed, Sep 16 2009, Joshua wrote:
>>> Tuesday September 22nd is the 4th Tuesday of the month.  Anyone up  
>>> for
>>> a PM meeting?
>>
>> How about we skip the talks this month and just meet up for beer/ 
>> food?
>>
>> (We could do Clark St. Ale House again, if that is OK with everyone
>> else.)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jonathan Rockway
>>
>> --
>> print just => another => perl => hacker => if $,=$"
>>
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> WindyCity-pm at pm.org
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From brian.d.foy at gmail.com  Tue Sep 22 09:26:29 2009
From: brian.d.foy at gmail.com (brian d foy)
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:26:29 -0500
Subject: [WindyCity-pm] Time for a Perl Mongers meeting?
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Okay, I'm declaring that Clark Street Ale House on Wednesday at 7.
I'll meet Chris at his hotel and get him there.

For those that might not know Chris Nandor, he's the guy who runs
Use.perl, which is a slashdot knockoff. He also works for Slashdot. :)
 He's the author of Mac::Carbon, has done a lot with MacPerl (you
younguns probably never heard of it :), and lots of other Mac stuff.
You may have seen him singing one of his songs for the CNN GOP debates

From shlomif at iglu.org.il  Wed Sep 23 01:55:00 2009
From: shlomif at iglu.org.il (Shlomi Fish)
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:55:00 +0300
Subject: [WindyCity-pm] Time for a Perl Mongers meeting?
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	<2715accf0909220926o24134c8fn286590273a497a6f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 22 Sep 2009 19:26:29 brian d foy wrote:
> Okay, I'm declaring that Clark Street Ale House on Wednesday at 7.
> I'll meet Chris at his hotel and get him there.
> 
> For those that might not know Chris Nandor, he's the guy who runs
> Use.perl, which is a slashdot knockoff. He also works for Slashdot. :)
>  He's the author of Mac::Carbon, has done a lot with MacPerl (you
> younguns probably never heard of it :), and lots of other Mac stuff.
> You may have seen him singing one of his songs for the CNN GOP debates

In case it's not too late for all of you to read it:

1. First of all, please thank Chris (a.k.a pudge) for his maintenance of 
Slashdot, Slash and use.perl.org as well as for his songs - two of which I 
have downloaded including the incredibly funny and original "Osama Bin Laden - 
You've Ruined My Birthday".

2. Can you ask Chris when he is going to revamp use.perl.org:

http://perl.net.au/wiki/User:Shlomif/use.perl.org_Problems

(Any additions are welcome).

And other people may have voiced other concerns about use.perl.org on their 
use.perl.org blogs that may be found using some web searching. Right now many 
people have moved their blogs elsewhere and many more want to move them as 
well. 

I originally intended to set up a Drupal-based site for discussing Perl, but 
ended up deciding against this idea due to lack of motivation for constant 
maintenance of the site, and due to technical difficulties in Drupal (lack of 
backwards compatibility between versions, many plugins I needed not working, 
and other stuff like that.)

Right now, Altreus and I have been working on http://www.ohloh.net/p/catable , 
which is a Catalyst-based blog engine similar to WordPress or MovableType. 
We've been making slow progress lately, but we're motivated to work on it. 
It's still not in a usable state, and git has been causing me tons of obscure 
problems which slowed me down considerably (and github has been very slow 
lately). But the proof of concept functionality is already there and I hope to 
move my blogging to a few Catable-based blogs soon. And, naturally, all 
contributions are welcome - feel free to fork/clone/etc. the github 
repository.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Shlomi Fish       http://www.shlomifish.org/
"The Human Hacking Field Guide" - http://shlom.in/hhfg

Chuck Norris read the entire English Wikipedia in 24 hours. Twice.

From jon at jrock.us  Wed Sep 23 16:24:33 2009
From: jon at jrock.us (Jonathan Rockway)
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:24:33 -0500
Subject: [WindyCity-pm] Time for a Perl Mongers meeting?
In-Reply-To: <200909231155.00377.shlomif@iglu.org.il> (Shlomi Fish's message
	of "Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:55:00 +0300")
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	<26EAAF14-B99F-45E7-A76F-9E24F9BBCAB1@c2group.net>
	<2715accf0909220926o24134c8fn286590273a497a6f@mail.gmail.com>
	<200909231155.00377.shlomif@iglu.org.il>
Message-ID: <87sked8csu.fsf@bar.jrock.us>

* On Wed, Sep 23 2009, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 Sep 2009 19:26:29 brian d foy wrote:
>> Okay, I'm declaring that Clark Street Ale House on Wednesday at 7.
>> I'll meet Chris at his hotel and get him there.
>>
>> For those that might not know Chris Nandor, he's the guy who runs
>> Use.perl, which is a slashdot knockoff. He also works for Slashdot. :)
>>  He's the author of Mac::Carbon, has done a lot with MacPerl (you
>> younguns probably never heard of it :), and lots of other Mac stuff.
>> You may have seen him singing one of his songs for the CNN GOP debates
>
> In case it's not too late for all of you to read it:
>
> 1. First of all, please thank Chris (a.k.a pudge) for his maintenance of
> Slashdot, Slash and use.perl.org as well as for his songs - two of which I
> have downloaded including the incredibly funny and original "Osama Bin Laden -
> You've Ruined My Birthday".
>
> 2. Can you ask Chris when he is going to revamp use.perl.org:
>
> http://perl.net.au/wiki/User:Shlomif/use.perl.org_Problems
>
> (Any additions are welcome).
>
> And other people may have voiced other concerns about use.perl.org on their
> use.perl.org blogs that may be found using some web searching. Right now many
> people have moved their blogs elsewhere and many more want to move them as
> well.
>
> I originally intended to set up a Drupal-based site for discussing Perl, but
> ended up deciding against this idea due to lack of motivation for constant
> maintenance of the site, and due to technical difficulties in Drupal (lack of
> backwards compatibility between versions, many plugins I needed not working,
> and other stuff like that.)
>
> Right now, Altreus and I have been working on http://www.ohloh.net/p/catable ,
> which is a Catalyst-based blog engine similar to WordPress or MovableType.
> We've been making slow progress lately, but we're motivated to work on it.
> It's still not in a usable state, and git has been causing me tons of obscure
> problems which slowed me down considerably (and github has been very slow
> lately). But the proof of concept functionality is already there and I hope to
> move my blogging to a few Catable-based blogs soon. And, naturally, all
> contributions are welcome - feel free to fork/clone/etc. the github
> repository.

It sounds like this is the solution to the problem.  Why ask Chris to
work for you for free when you are already solving the problem?

(I don't like use.perl, and as a result, I don't blog there and I rarely
read it.  Problem solved.)

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway

--
print just => another => perl => hacker => if $,=$"

From jtk at depaul.edu  Mon Sep 21 14:57:01 2009
From: jtk at depaul.edu (John Kristoff)
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:57:01 -0000
Subject: [WindyCity-pm] [Chicago-talk] Time for a Perl Mongers meeting?
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On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 04:31:20PM -0500, brian d foy wrote:
> Chris Nandor is going to be in town on Wednesday night. How about we
> do beer and food that night instead of Tuesday? He's staying at the W
> Hotel, so something near there would be good. I told him that I would
> meet him at 6:30ish.

I won't be able to make it at that time, but I'm very interested in
brian's latest project.

At the risk of hijacking the thread, if anyone wants to give a 30 min
or so talk to some impressionable students related to the subect
of Network Protocols, I think that would be great.  See here for
some background on the class:

  <http://condor.depaul.edu/~jkristof/tdc375/>

A few of them are hungry for some basic coding exposure, most don't
have it, but they have a fairly decent grasp of TCP/IP (or should :-)
so anything that could help them become more useful netadmin or netsec
types would be of high value.

I would definitely open for a beer or two after class if anyone can
wait that long.

John