From leonard at umn.edu Mon Dec 7 09:19:01 2009 From: leonard at umn.edu (Leonard Miller) Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:19:01 -0600 Subject: [yapc] Frozen Perl 2010 call for speakers In-Reply-To: <6A13CEAB-2CE0-4091-A1F9-F447A2718D5C@umn.edu> References: <6A13CEAB-2CE0-4091-A1F9-F447A2718D5C@umn.edu> Message-ID: <4B1D3905.5080206@umn.edu> Hey everyone, The call for speakers has been extended just one week, so the new deadline is midnight on 12/14/2009. Please get your talks submitted (http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2010/cfs.html ) before then. Thank you, Leonard Miller Frozen Perl Coordinator leonard wrote: > Hello all, > > The Minneapolis Perl Mongers are organizing a Perl workshop in > Minneapolis on February 5-7, 2010, and I hope some of you can attend. > We're also working on a hackathon the day after and two Perl classes: > "Effective Perl Programming",taught by brian d foy and "Introduction > to Moose" taught by Dave Rolsky on Friday February 5th. > > If you are a student, you'll be eligible for the super-cheap rates for > the Workshop ($25 early bird prices for the workshop). > > We've also opened our call for speakers, and we'd love to have your > submissions. You can view the CFS at > http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2010/cfs.html > > > > Thanks much for your time > > The Frozen Perl team. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From uri at StemSystems.com Sat Dec 19 06:45:14 2009 From: uri at StemSystems.com (Uri Guttman) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:45:14 -0500 Subject: [yapc] dark star author is dead Message-ID: <876383t43p.fsf@quad.sysarch.com> hi all, just a sad little note. many of you saw the movie dark star at yapc::pitt. dan o'bannon the author of that movie (and he also played the sgt. pinback character) who also wrote alien, just passed away after a long battle with crohn's disease. slashdot reported it here: http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/12/19/0212237/Alien-Screenwriter-Dan-OBannon-Dead-At-63?art_pos=2 uri -- Uri Guttman ------ uri at stemsystems.com -------- http://www.sysarch.com -- ----- Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------ --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com ---------